I wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark
Reddit goes dark

As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it

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@caseynewton
> And I imagine this all feels particularly galling to users who already have deep misgivings about their work being used to train AI models over which they have no control, and from which they themselves will see no financial benefit. It’s one thing to build an advertising business around your users’ posts — and quite another to package those posts up and sell them as a SaaS product.

Well said! No need to imagine. That's how I feel.