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>>robbie+(OP)
Their pricing is just absurd. Reddit's official app and webpage is garbage, and instead of working with amazing developers like Christian to add whatever functionality they need to increase their revenue, they're doubling down on bad decisions and alienating their users. Pure hubris... they've forgotten their own history and why the Digg exodus happened.

Seriously, _what_ are they gaining by eliminating access to third-party clients? If they want usage data, they already have all the API calls. If they want more ads, they can change the APIs to inject them.

>>Lx1oG-+v6
They don't want people training LLMs with their data without paying for it. Blame the AI bros for stealing all their data.

>>mnd999+q9
It's not "their" data in the same way that last mile network access isn't "their" (telco's) pipes.

If value in a platform comes from third parties choosing to use the service, and those third parties are free to use alternatives, then platforms should be very careful about how greedy they get in exploiting their users.

Most of the platform value actually comes from future, continued use.

>>ethbr0+Ba
Maybe, legally it probably is their data but your point still correct, they only have it because people choose to give it to them.

But it doesn’t matter what is, it matters what they think and they’ve got AI cash fomo.

>>mnd999+3F
It is their data but your copyrighted work :P

Seems to me this is more them trying to push ads on people; apps like Apollo do not serve ads (or, as a long time user of Apollo, I've never seen them). I think this has been a long time in the works, before all of the LLM buzz.