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Good job eating up their propaganda! There is nothing wrong with asking for money for the API use, if it is a reasonable amount. (Still a bit questionable, as
by kaba0 3y ago
Good job eating up their propaganda!
There is nothing wrong with asking for money for the API use, if it is a reasonable amount. (Still a bit questionable, as reddit is literally leeching on user-generated content, they themselves provide very little in the equation) But these were clearly meant to stop third-party apps completely — compute is ridiculously cheap, especially when you mostly serve easily cache-able textual data.
It’s a shame because it wouldn’t have been hard to make shitton of money while simultaneously riding the good-will of people by offering a subscription-based reddit premium for a few dollars at most for third-party API use.
- Terr_ 3y agoThere's also the dishonesty of Reddit's explanation for the money-grab. They claimed it was to curb the large-scale harvesting of content for AI models, but then they abruptly demanded everyone everywhere pay excessive fees regardless of identity or purpose or usage patterns. In contrast, the big and significant actors in that space could have been dissuaded by a terms of service change combined with some rate limits.