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Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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Unless they announce they're going to undo the pricing changes completely, I don't see myself using reddit anymore.
Damage control? Still I think they'll first wait for the strike on the 12th hoping we fluff it up
Why do dmg control when you can just censor everything.
That's what I feel it is gonna be like.
The Reddit way.
@xevizero @thomas my fear is that they do and people go back to using Reddit. It’s too late I’m done with them.
If history tells us anything, they don't even have to actually do it. Just say they'll do it and it'll never come up again.
0% chance they go back to a free API. Maybe, just maybe they end up scaling back API pricing for third-party apps to something reasonable that would grant them the same revenue per user that they would get from the first-party app.
The other piece of this is that the API is also used to train AI on Reddit's data. For that application, given the colossal amount of venture capital going into AI right now, their API pricing isn't all that absurd. If Reddit were reasonable they would offer different pricing depending on what the API is going to be used for--but, then again, it's Reddit, so personally I'm throwing in my lot with FOSS.
Not a chance. They are going to charge significantly more than that. Probably 10x that amount and tell us they "listened".
Still I'm here as well. Now let's watch that place burn together I guess.
I am waiting for Apollo to die, which according to Christian, will be June 30th.
They've already fucked the RSS feeds.