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Classic honey pot scheme.
Open the API, let business come and thrive and help you grow, then shut it up and cash in.
Also once they monopolize the app, they will control everything. No way to stop them selling our data.
I'll simply keep using brave to browse, until it becomes so shitty that I simply go somewhere else.
Is there a reddit alternative we can migrate to en masse and give this control freaks a lesson?
Comment by [deleted] at 06/06/2023 at 19:54 UTC
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Comment by Nemisis_the_2nd at 06/06/2023 at 20:22 UTC
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Is there a reddit alternative we can migrate to en masse
I'm not sure there is. Part of what makes reddit what it is is the archive of discussions going back over a decade now. Any new site is just going to be a blank slate that doesn't have that same value as a resource.
In all honesty, I've hit the point I see reddit more like a public service than a company now for the access it brings to information and, more importantly, the discussion around that information.
Comment by Twelve20two at 06/06/2023 at 22:00 UTC
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I feel like they did a bad job as a honey pot. They took so long to pull the rug out that now they actually have something to lose if things don't end in their favor
Which is good for us
Comment by [deleted] at 07/06/2023 at 00:34 UTC
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I’m not so sure it is. I’m not defending Reddit on this. But I suspect they’ve come to the realization how valuable their API is for AI training with AI blowing up. It may be worth $20 mil to some AI companies to get the massive reliable and structured data to work with.
These 3rd party apps could just be collateral damage cause Reddit, like all social media platforms, views users as resources to capitalize on. They don’t give a shit about them. I would be shocked if they change this since it’s likely not about the 3rd party apps in my opinion.
Comment by MannoSlimmins at 07/06/2023 at 08:02 UTC
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Is there a reddit alternative we can migrate to en masse
McComas and his partner Jessica Moreno left their jobs at Reddit and headed to Salt Lake City, Utah in the summer of 2015 to launch their idea for a more inclusive social board.
mzy opened the platform to the public last fall and has since grown to tens of thousands of users with more than 6,000 Imzy communities. It was using the same kinds of threaded comments as found on a site like Reddit, but started out with basic rules on how people should treat each other instead of the haphazard way Reddit allowed certain more unsavory trolls to run rampant on its site at the time.
But it turns out that wasn’t something a lot of people were into, and now Imzy has to close up shop on its idealistic experiment in being nice on the internet.