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They can still scrap the website? The fact is that many, many internet businesses today not make sense. Many of them are bleeding money with no possible path t
by kajaktum 3y ago
They can still scrap the website?
The fact is that many, many internet businesses today not make sense. Many of them are bleeding money with no possible path to profitability ahead. Mostly due to the fact that people's expectations are very different and I would argue even skewed. Clearly hosting Reddit is expensive, but who really pays for it? People don't like ads, don't like to pay for services, don't like to be reminded that they can provide donations (Wikipedia). What else is there? Hoping the customers have the suddenly conscience to fund the product?
I foresee many internet companies dying over the next few years with no real replacement to crop up. But people always forget and history repeats itself; so maybe we will just see an endless reincarnations of similarly failed products.
- joot82 3y agoThey know hardly anyone would pay for a social link aggregator and discussion board, but some people might donate a coffee to a beloved app developer on their phone. Hence the only way forward in their mind to charge for API calls. Even if it kills many of those apps, some will suck it up and charge their users. That it makes life harder for LLM competition and benefits their guy Sam is just a nice side effect. But I'm pretty confident that there will be daily reddit dumps available for training very soon as Torrent for anyone that can't afford to hide their scraping, if they not already are.
- telotortium 3y agoThen Reddit the company should charge Apollo a reasonable price, not an extortionate price that will kill the apps altogether. And lay off the majority of the staff, just like Twitter. Sure, the experience may get slightly worse, but it will be fine. The real issue is just trying to take Reddit to IPO.
- sebzim4500 3y agoIs hosting reddit hard? Or do they just have thousands of employees who have little reason to exist.