• pancake@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 years ago

    Do you expect this is a reflection of how Reddit will handle relations with its investors?

    Holy shit, they killed him right there. They have put the thread in “sort by new” mode and I bet it’s just to bury that bomb as deep as they can.

    • Dalek@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Apollo didn’t auto switch it for me so it was at the top lol. Of course Spez ignored that one. He actually took a shot at Christian in another comment

        • Dalek@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Same. I just started today and I’m having fun with it. Feels like when I just started Reddit. Definitely not as many communities but I feel like it’ll get there.

        • asexualchangeling@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I’ve never tried Apollo, and haddent heard of it until the reddit api stuff happened, but I fully respect everything I’ve seen it’s dev do sense

  • Sagittaire@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Burn it to the ground! I wish all top subreddits had the balls to go dark indefinitely to the point they have to backpedal or forcibly take over the subreddits. Burn it to the fucking ground!

  • PrimalAnimist@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I feel like this move has nothing to do with investors and everything to do with setting the standard for big corps like Microsoft and Google to be able to scrape their massive amount of data to train next gen AIs. They know they have HUGE amount of data from now and for years and years ago. Content, created by others, then sold for enormous profit.

    • Nina@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      I mean AI is already stealing all art and images on the web without paying anything. They could just literally scrape and pay nothing. Web scraping isn’t illegal, they already do it, why would they pay anyone? Unless the law catches up about the rights to manufacture AI content based on ill-gotten data, then why would they pay what they don’t have to?

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
      0·
      2 years ago

      If he thinks locking down the API is going to stop them, he’s bumped his head. These companies have more than enough manpower to write and maintain an HTML scraper for Reddit.

      • sealneaward@lemmy.ml
        0·
        2 years ago

        Creating a web scraper vs actually maintaining one that is effective and works is two different things. It’s very easy to fight web scraping if you know what you are doing.

        • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
          0·
          2 years ago

          Right, but these are big companies with lots of talented programmers on hand. If anyone can overcome such an obstacle, it’s them.

          Also, Google and Microsoft already have a search index full of Reddit content to scrape.

          • sealneaward@lemmy.ml
            0·
            2 years ago

            You are right. You would need a team of skilled scrapers and network engineers though would know how to get around rate limiters with some kind of external load balancer or something along those lines.

            • MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 years ago

              Rate limiters work on IP source. This is easily bypassed with a rotating proxy. There are even SaaS that offer this. The trick is to not use large subnets that can be easily blocked. You have to use a lot of random /32 IPs to be effective.

  • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Why the fuck did they even remotely think this would be a good idea anyway? There is literally 0 good will towards reddit right now and for good reason.

      • monobot@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        I just checked and my account on lemmy is 3 years old, I was waiting for all of you. At moments lemmy looked like it will take of by it self, but last few months was pretty quiet. I hope this is the push this community needs to succeed.

        Reddit got too big for my taste since digg joined in, I don’t think this will kill it ( they have the data how many people is using it outiside official apps), but let’s make space out of it.

          • Contend6248@feddit.de
            1·
            2 years ago

            One can only dream that these canceled 3rd party clients might join some day. Hopefully some will be opensource or they decide to support any other platform.

            It would’ve been great if they just collectively change to something else.

  • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    2 years ago

    While I appreciate Spez being burned at the stake, why are there so many fucking awards on things. People know that those directly contribute to Reddits revenue right?