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What makes reddit valuable are 1. The communities 2. The data that the communities havegenerated in the past It seems like reddit is trying to monetize #2 to
by Rebelgecko 3y ago
What makes reddit valuable are
1. The communities
2. The data that the communities havegenerated in the past
It seems like reddit is trying to monetize #2 to the point of alienating #1. It's bizarre how large the disconnect is between Reddit the corporation and Reddit the collection of communities
- sebzim4500 3y agoIsn't #2 freely available for anyone to scrape? And even if they shut down access now, presumably everyone training LLMs already has a mostly complete dump of reddit comments/links.
- fsflover 3y agoYes, but actually scrapping it is a hard work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254485 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254485.