That's fine if reddit wants to monetize their platform, but the cost per 1k requests is prohibitively expensive and sort of ridiculous.
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.
Being able to archive stuff is a service that adds value to reddit. They've not suffered due to app developers for years, they've directly benefitted from grey area legality by refusing to enforce their own rules until it became more profitable to do so.
This is what's called unethical with a side of plausible deniability.
