Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests

Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by fkyoureadthedoc on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @11:26AM (#36214311)

If it was that expensive to host the API, they wouldn't have done it for over a decade. Reddit's popularity was at least partially built on the labor of 3rd party devs building mobile apps, moderation tools, useful bots, all types of stuff.

The bottom line is they'll happily pull the rug from under those 3rd party devs if it means they can pump their numbers for their IPO.

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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by compiler-guy on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @01:54PM (#36216604)

Multiple LLMs scraping all of reddit is a far different deal than how the APIs were used in the past.

Small cost x moderate usage = moderate cost Small cost x overthetop usage = overthetop cost

What they should do is really hammer the LLMs.

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Re:Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread ... by wkat4242 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:01PM (#36217522)

They could just block them if they want. Can't be that hard.

I think this is more about the IPO and inflating figures.

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