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If the performance weakness continues for a week or two, the agency would start recommending decreasing spend with Reddit or directing it to other platforms.

After the blackout, we will be closely monitoring user behavior on Reddit and guide clients when we can unpause,โ€ said Freddy Dabaghi, managing director at Stagwell-backed Crispin Porter Bogusky, which has asked clients to stop campaigns, depending on their client goals.

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[-] Lawliss@midwest.social 98 points 2 years ago

I love how these articles always frame the strike as "These needy people are mad because Reddit is now charging for something that was free before." Motherfucker, we're mad because the price was unreasonable and they were unwilling to negotiate in good faith. Third party app developers even agreed that charging for API usage was a reasonable thing but they expected the cost to be reasonable, as well.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

I'm mad because of the slander.

The reason the price is unreasonable is because they're butthurt that OpenAI and other companies have used the API to pull a LOT of text for machine learning datasets. They are sad that they didn't get a slice of that cake.

[-] totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org 30 points 2 years ago

On NPR they did interview the Apollo dev at least.

[-] OofShoot@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago

They still got the frame completely wrong, unless there's a different radio segment I didn't hear. The one I heard was mostly from an expert I had never heard from before who made it seem like "the developers" were mad because they had to pay. They included a single throwaway line from Chris. (I think that's the Apollo dev's name.) No mention they the pricing was clearly intended to be unreasonable.

[-] totallynotsocsa@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago

There was a segment today, and one yesterday where they actually put Christian on air for a bit longer and he explained things a little better. The one today was definitely obnoxious. But whatever. There's a lot of nuance in why the API decision is annoying and some of it really does boil down to old users feeling betrayed or having diverging preference. I definitely feel betrayed, and have a preference not to be tracked on my semi-anonymous internet forum.

But to someone who hasn't spent a decade+ on Reddit, the argument makes sense I think. The API does represent an opportunity cost. Whether that opportunity cost is grounded in reality, or MBA brain rot is probably outside the scope for All Things Considered

[-] xTechDeath@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's bullshit fr. I also haven't seen one major news article report on that god awful AMA where Spez tried to lie about what Christian said and then claim he was blackmailed but was met with audio recordings of himself that proved he was lying

[-] kofe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I know it's not "major" in the sense of traditional news outlets, but Philip DeFranco is covering it at least

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