This was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world
on 30 Oct 20:48
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It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.
schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
on 30 Oct 20:12
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The company reported nearly 100 million monthly users, an increase of 47% from the year prior
My bullshit-o-meter is pegged at 11.
I’ve been on reddit lately and I’ll eat my shoe if that 50% increase was in any way actual real humans, because there’s no damn way.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Oct 20:30
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Lmao seriously, these investors have clearly never been on Reddit
Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org
on 30 Oct 22:03
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At this point I’m pretty sure it’s bots all the way down. And whatever isn’t a bot is someone pretending to be someone else or some other BS.
usuarioimanol@lemmy.world
on 31 Oct 02:19
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Does anyone use Infinity for Reddit? I understand you have to pay to use it.
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Why? Still the same shitty company. They have no revenue model aside from selling what people put in there.
This was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.
It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.
My bullshit-o-meter is pegged at 11.
I’ve been on reddit lately and I’ll eat my shoe if that 50% increase was in any way actual real humans, because there’s no damn way.
Lmao seriously, these investors have clearly never been on Reddit
At this point I’m pretty sure it’s bots all the way down. And whatever isn’t a bot is someone pretending to be someone else or some other BS.
Does anyone use Infinity for Reddit? I understand you have to pay to use it.