just so this doesn’t overwhelm our front page too much, i think now’s a good time to start consolidating discussions. existing threads will be kept up, but unless a big update comes let’s try to keep what’s happening in this thread instead of across 10.

developments to this point:

The Verge is on it as usual, also–here’s their latest coverage (h/t @dirtmayor@beehaw.org):

other media coverage:

  • angrylittlekittyEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    new refugee - hello and thank you for welcoming us 🙋🏻‍♀️ very first of what i’m sure will be many posts here in the fedverse. nice to meet you all!

    reddit know the list of named 3p apps out there are. likely tens not hundreds.

    they could have implemented an api management solution to charge those folks differently than what they charge a corporation training lllms.

    i sell this solution to enterprises for a living and it’s not technically hard to implement. truly. thousands of companies large and small with fewer resources than reddit have done it.

    reddit could have done it in less than a couple of hours and charged a fair rate to these developers while making bank on ai.

    but no, spez the egocentric jackass chose this path instead.

    corp controlled social media is both dangerous and toxic. the only way to fix this is to burn them to the ground so burn it we must.

    deleting my reddit account & data on the 30th and watching the latest developments re: blackouts, communities going indefinitely dark even today … with excitement for the future.

    would have never thought in just a week i couldn’t go from loving to loathing something so much.

    • isosphere@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      undefined> media

      i think the goal is to shut them down - the pricing + time they were given is pretty effective at making sure the only way to access reddit content is via the paths reddit owns. they can collect more data, change whatever, charge whatever, and compete with nobody

      it’s enough to make us leave forever, hopefully everyone else follows suit