[Rebelgecko]

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]

Isn'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]

Yes, but actually scrapping it is a hard work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254485.