dirtmayorJun 16, 2023

TechCrunch shouted out Lemmy and Kbin in their Reddit coverage today: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps

https://beehaw.org/post/589656

TechCrunch shouted out Lemmy and Kbin in their Reddit coverage today: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps - Beehaw

From the article: 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.

Show threadLordofCandyJun 16, 2023
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.
Show threadtreadfulJun 16, 2023
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.
Show threadargv_minus_one

no ad experience

I suspect this is the real reason spez wants third-party apps gone.

Jun 17, 2023 at 12:25amWeb
Show thread🐝🇭🇪🅻🅻🇪🇧🅴🆁🇹🐝Jun 17, 2023
I think if they 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.
Show threadargv_minus_oneJun 17, 2023
What's to stop AI companies from just scraping Reddit's HTML? The two big AI companies—Google and Microsoft—already do that as part of their search engine indexing!