- cross-posted to:
- snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
- business@midwest.social
Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.
The primary excuse for the API change, to charge AI companies for Reddit’s data, doesn’t hold water. After the change goes into effect, AI companies can just switch from the API to web scrapers for continued free access. It’ll require marginally more processing power, which AI companies already have in spades.
It’s absolutely, 100% bullshit. They want to make more money if a dev is willing to pay for it, but in reality they want 100% of the users on their own app to monetize them, sell their data, etc.
Fuck em’, I’ve been extremely happy learning more about the Fediverse every day.