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In response to Huffman’s comments, moderators are trying to find ways to make blackouts effective. Alternatively, some communities are also setting up servers on alternative sites like Lemmy and Kbin.

  • LordofCandy@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I just hate that Spez continues to act like 3rd parties didn’t offer or cite reasonable examples and costs for api access. No one was saying cost was not an option but it was a ludicrous cost and an amazingly short timeline that started the whole fiasco.

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      1 year ago

      As a user, I would have even shouldered my own cost. $2.50/mo for a no ad experience on the app I prefer? Seems reasonable.

        • I think if they just wanted to serve ads to third party apps they would have worked out a deal with them to revenue share at the very least and do this.

          My guess is that they want to pitch Reddit as this huge datasource for AI in the upcoming IPO and they can’t do that if they’re giving it away for free.