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I actually think reddit is completely reasonable. The problem is the first party reddit tools are trash. Reddit's default ui is trash. Reddits app is trash.
old reddit is the only reddit ui that was made by reddit that isn't trash.
Companies are using the reddit api to harvest data and then train AI models which they can then sell. Reddit has to pay to host that data so I do feel like they should make money on it. Just like I think github shouldn't be trainning ai models on code I left on github.
Reddit has never been profitable. It's kept up by investors and I guess people trying to control information flow.
I'm happy everyone is migrating though because fuck reddit.
I actually think reddit is completely reasonable.
Companies are using the reddit api to harvest data and then train AI models which they can then sell. Reddit has to pay to host that data so I do feel like they should make money on it.
Even if the end result is shutting out one-person companies providing regular users access to regular content?
You're comparing two vastly situations, with two different profit models. In one case, a company buys access to data that will improve their computers and maybe make billions.
In the other an app that offers access to a website. A website my dude! 20 million dollars per year for doing reddit a service and sparing their users from a crud android app?
Of course they shouldn't pay the same. User apps should compensate reddit for bandwidth usage and loss of ad revenue. Maybe even get a fat discount for creating a well put together reddit app.
Big Data clients should pay with their blood because they're sucking out the essense of our digital souls.
Reddit doesn't want third party apps because they make money through their first party apps.
This is pretty cut and dry to be honest. If users use a better app that doesn't make reddit any money it's of no use to reddit and is just costing them hosting money.
Reddit doesn’t want third party apps
Of course. Am I'm sure reddit would want individual users to pay 99 dollars a month for access - If they could.
This is pretty cut and dry to be honest.
Sure, and that's up to reddit to handle how they please. But saying reddit created an API pricing system designed to force out smaller actors by unreasonable pricing is possibly the polar opposite of saying reddit is being reasonable with their pricing.
And a small edit on the previous post I never got to:
Reddit has to pay to host that data so I do feel like they should make money on it.
If the users explicitly understands what the data will go to, it's just another business transaction. But I think most reddit users never envisioned their data being used like this.
That would make the practice predatory.
The best analogy I could come up with involved corpses, sex and "We have to pay the rent for the morgue so we feel entitled to..." but I'll spare you. Let's just say I think the users have been fucked by reddit.