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> The average user will try reddit alternatives, realize there is no one active on RedditCopy143.com and then wait for the subreddits to open up again. As an a
by gumballindie 3y ago
> The average user will try reddit alternatives, realize there is no one active on RedditCopy143.com and then wait for the subreddits to open up again.
As an average reddit user, i can confirm this. I am not going to try alternatives. I actually support reddit in charging money for api access from those who wish to train ai models. Cant blame reddit for wanting money in return for their bandwidth, infrastructure and salaries paid so people can cannibalise content.
What i hope is that open source developers will follow suit and abandon github or close their code all together, particularly since there’s no indication that open source licensing will be honoured.
If ai folks have the audacity to claim our work is free to use by their models then i am sorry but you will either have to pay for it or make it yourself.
- Havoc 3y ago> I actually support reddit in charging money for api acces Everyone does. The issue isn’t that they plan to charge but rather that they announced unreasonable rates so high that it’ll kill everything in sight in the 3rd party ecosystem. So high that it’s hard not to conclude that this is precisely the intent The ai stuff is a red herring to justify above. The type and volume of access needed is different (firehose vs logged in user). They could distinguish if they wanted to and accommodate the one or the other. By conflating the two they get to play the victim (ai stealing our data) while killing the competitor apps