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The idea that it's anti-competitive to do with your platform what you want is in my mind silly. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from building a reddit clone to compete against reddit besides your ability to attract their users.

It comes off as extremely entitled to think that reddit should supply you with the data created by their platform to do what you want with it.

>>ableto+(OP)
Reddit didn't create data. I did, you did, random users did. Why did it happen on Reddit? Because Reddit, at least for a while, seemed like it was a relatively open place where data wouldn't be stuck and made inaccessible without an account.

Reddit exists _despite_ Reddit's incompetent management and tech teams, not thanks to them.

>>ableto+(OP)
Um, the users create the data, and consume it. Reddit provides a "marketplace" for that, and sells your data in exchange. Now, they want to rent-seek from the very people making it possible to create and consume that content easily.

And it IMO, is anti-competitive - they are intentionally killing all existing competitors, vs. improving their own offering.

>>buildb+G4
Apollo is not a competitor to reddit, it's a consumer of reddit. Those are very distinct things. It literally doesn't even exist without reddit.

If I have a backyard and let you host a couple concerts in it free of charge and then next year I decide "hmm, I think I should be paid for those concerts you're hosting in my backyard" is that anti-competitive?

Absolutely not.

>>ableto+ql
Apollo is also a producer to Reddit, as a large portion of its users use the app and contribute data via it

>>primax+bB
That's the funniest part about UGC companies treating their users like dirt.

>>primax+bB
> Apollo is also a producer to Reddit

By consuming its apis.....

>>ohgodp+g4
Eh. You can be more incompetent.

>>ableto+vJ
Some of which are used to generate content, which other people consume. That's how web 2.0 works.