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Reddit’s golden geese foul up its IPO plans (www.reuters.com)
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Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.

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[-] earthling@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Huh.. I would have thought they'd use the API when available but I honestly know nothing about it. Wouldn't gathering data via API provide more structured data thereby making it easier to feed into their models?

[-] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Often its easier to just scrape everything rather than making a whole code to pull api requests and put them into a database and sort them while doing so. These companies scrape the entire internet, they don't have time or necessarie to use api, they don't need permanent access to a two way communication, they just need the data.

[-] earthling@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Good point.

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