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Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

jmclnx wrote: post #4

I think it has all to do with AI accessing sites for "training", you can't blame reddit for wanting a piece of the action. Is the price high ? To me it is, but for a large company doing AI, probably not.

can't they differentiate between api calls made by third party clients and AI training?

this looks more malicious than ignorance or inefficiency. they want to mimic twitter by building off of community then claiming "costs".

fuck reddit. No redditor wanted them to selfhost photos and videos, yet they replaced imgur with their own. Why?

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by Lx1oG-AWb6h_ZG0 »

Their pricing is just absurd. Reddit's official app and webpage is garbage, and instead of working with amazing developers like Christian to add whatever functionality they need to increase their revenue, they're doubling down on bad decisions and alienating their users. Pure hubris... they've forgotten their own history and why the Digg exodus happened.

Seriously, _what_ are they gaining by eliminating access to third-party clients? If they want usage data, they already have all the API calls. If they want more ads, they can change the APIs to inject them.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by PaulHoule »

duskwuff wrote: post #10
jmclnx wrote: post #4

I think it has all to do with AI accessing sites for "training", you can't blame reddit for wanting a piece of the action. Is the price high ? To me it is, but for a large company doing AI, probably not.

If it was about restricting access for AI training data, I'd expect them to give developers of actual, well-known client apps a break.

It's all about keeping reddit safe for dark patterns.

There is some good content on reddit still, if you look hard to find it, but one thing that makes it hard is that reddit blends ads into the content and I think also blends in non-sequitur content that further confuses the reader into looking at and clicking on the ads.

They just can't let reddit clients provide a good, never mind better, experience.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by TwoNineA »

enlyth wrote: post #5
raydev wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's funny is that Reddit's pricing is indeed more reasonable than Twitter's, but it's still too high to be make cheap third party clients feasible.

It's probably the point, they want the official app to be the only choice, so they can control everything and show you more unblockable ads.

The day Apollo dies, the day I will stop using Reddit.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by PaulHoule »

robbiet480 wrote: post #2

I'm shocked that Reddit has done this mere weeks after Twitter destroyed their thriving ecosystem of bots and apps by introducing horrific pricing.

It is not at all accidental. Elon Musk has given cover for other social media sites to imitate many of his moves, such as Facebook introducing a subscription tier.
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