Of course it worked. No popular website gives people unlimited use of an API for free. Its financial death. Reddit kept it on far too long, Facebook was suitng

Of course it worked. No popular website gives people unlimited use of an API for free. Its financial death. Reddit kept it on far too long, Facebook was suitng anyone attempting to build an app based on unofficial APIs more than a decade ago, and it worked great for them I also haven't really seen any of the major (Reddit mods are not spread out, a very small group control the majority of large subreddits) mod just quit. Anyone who edited their content "so reddit doesnt profit" just gave the internal Reddit DB more value to sell to the LLM companies Reddit moderation, like Facebook Group moderation, works for free because people are bored and love the power grab. There are SO MANY Facebook Groups with over 100,000 and 1,000,000 users, their mods work endlessly 24/7 to stop spam and make sure everything is kosher. They've never once asked Zuckerberg for cash, the ego boost is just too big to give up