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by user249 1097 days ago
The reddit mods are little tyrants in my experience. I hope the one's that think they own reddit get booted. Really, some of them are awful people. I wish I were trolling but I'm not. They can try to get their users to follow them somewhere else but it will fail because they are behaving unreasonably and breaking a site we all like, which has never been a big money maker. The mods belong in r/choosingbeggers for acting like it should be free
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DANmode 1097 days ago
> which has never been a big money maker.

What are you on about, here?

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user249 1097 days ago
Reddit has never made a lot of money. AI companies scrapped all their data for free which wasn't fair. So they start charging to support the site. I don't see how reddit owners are in the wrong here. But mods are behaving as expected, like petulant children.
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anaganisk 1097 days ago
Dude the top AI company, "Open"AI, founded by Sam Altman is a board member of reddit, I'm all for conspiracy but at least get the basics right. I myself have a conspiracy theory that he is pressuring Reddit to build a moat. Also disallowing API access does shit, to stop API companies from scraping anyway, because they can still scrape off the site like how search engines do it, so even my conspiracy may only be true to certain extent. Also mods are volunteers, they keep the community conformant to the sub rules, mods who don't watch their content will lead to comments like "Why is this on this sub", "sub has gone to shit", there are people who genuinely take care of their subreddit. They're kind of unpaid janitors.
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user249 1097 days ago
> Sam Altman is a board member of reddit

Well then, he's acting responsibly by not letting every other AI company have the data for free. I'm not impugning all mods. I appreciate their work. But some let the power go to their heads

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anaganisk 1096 days ago
The data which he acquired for free in the first place? Hypocrisy much?
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batiudrami 1097 days ago
If it was just about AI scraping they could have given the third party reader apps a free pass on API fees.

The recorded phone calls from the Apollo developer have reddit agreeing with the dev’s suggestion that it is about the opportunity cost of having users using apps which are not easily monetised by reddit. Which is obvious to everyone so I don’t see why you’re pretending otherwise.

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user249 1097 days ago
> apps which are not easily monetised by reddit

I don't see a lot of difference between reddit apps and AI companies.

Why do you pretend that apps should make money off reddit data without paying for it? Just because they did in the past doesn't mean they have to keep doing it now that everyone has realized it's a valuable commodity.

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piva00 1097 days ago
You are probably very aware that the main issue the app developers have is not about paying for access or not, it's how heavy handed and in short notice the demand for payment from Reddit came.

The 3rd party developers were very clear they were willing to figure out a way to pay for API access, it's just impossible to do it when you have 30 days notice to start being liable for a US$ 20m/year bill...

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labrador 1097 days ago
That's capitalism for you. I also don't like the brutality of it, but it seems to the most efficient system at creating wealth
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