Furry Technologists

1306 readers

1 users here now

Science, Technology, and pawbs

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

125

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

36 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Enshittification begins again

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't buy that as the reddit reason for their API change.

For a group that wants to feed AI models, web scraping reddit is barely a speed bump compared to having a nice API to use.

Reddit did what it did to force users onto their mobile app so they could better harvest user data and keep them from avoiding ads.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This made me go check on OpenRed, a reddit app for iOS that didn’t use the API (a more than likely no-no - scraping the site, essentially).

Not only is it missing from the App Store, but the dev and his subreddit were both banned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It’s crazy how long Reddit was such a huge part of my life and then just like that, doesn’t exist.

The only thing I miss are the videos.

Videos don’t get traction here it seems.