▲ 421 ▼ ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by Satelllliiiiiiiteeee@kbin.social to c/reddit@lemmy.world 107 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Clent@lemmy.world 132 points 2 years ago (3 children) if it can’t reach deals with generative AI companies to pay for its data. There's your problem, Reddit, you think it's your data. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago This sentiment sums up so much of what is wrong with modern consumer oriented tech companies permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago (1 child) The people using Reddit for its data have the easiest time scraping it for its data since they don't need API access to post, comment, or moderate; it's unfortunate that Reddit management continues to degrade the experience of the average user just to make it slightly harder for that scraping to occur. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* Exactly. A large part of the issue here is that reddit tried to sell astroturfing as a service, but everyone quickly realized you can just astroturf reddit for free. The whole "Thanos snap" thing was reddit launching that service, I am convinced. permalink fedilink source parent [+] buzz@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago This sentiment sums up so much of what is wrong with modern consumer oriented tech companies permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zedstrian@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago (1 child) The people using Reddit for its data have the easiest time scraping it for its data since they don't need API access to post, comment, or moderate; it's unfortunate that Reddit management continues to degrade the experience of the average user just to make it slightly harder for that scraping to occur. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* Exactly. A large part of the issue here is that reddit tried to sell astroturfing as a service, but everyone quickly realized you can just astroturf reddit for free. The whole "Thanos snap" thing was reddit launching that service, I am convinced. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* Exactly. A large part of the issue here is that reddit tried to sell astroturfing as a service, but everyone quickly realized you can just astroturf reddit for free. The whole "Thanos snap" thing was reddit launching that service, I am convinced. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] buzz@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent