John GruberMicrosoft should create and launch a Reddit clone, keep the API completely open for client developers (but not data miners), pay top Reddit moderators to move their communities over, and use the project’s data for continuously training their own AI models.
Ms. Penny Oaken@gruber Microsoft is notorious for Embrace Extend Extinguish, so this would be simultaneously on-brand for MS and something that the tech-core of Reddit wouldn’t fall for.
The gamers, though —