Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by buildbot on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:54PM (#36143327)

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.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by abletonlive on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:09PM (#36144365)

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.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by primax on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:37PM (#36145342)

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

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by solarkraft on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:17PM (#36145777)

That's the funniest part about UGC companies treating their users like dirt.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by abletonlive on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:27PM (#36145858)

> Apollo is also a producer to Reddit

By consuming its apis.....

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by primax on Saturday June 03, 2023 @07:41PM (#36181593)

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

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