After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access...

After weeks of burning through users’ goodwill, Reddit is facing a moderator strike and an exodus of its most important users. It’s the latest example of a social media site making a critical mistake: users aren’t there for the services, they’re there for the community. Building barriers to access…

  • ripcord@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Supposedly API is priced at gouging rates so they can extract millions from OpenAI, Google, etc for scraping for AI.

    …Supposedly. I mean, it actually makes some sense except how those companies weren’t using the API and stuff.