Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit

Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by mynameisvlad on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:30PM (#36312682)

That’s assuming that you want people to use your API for third party apps.

Reddit has made it pretty clear they aren’t interested in that, despite the things they say.

In that sense, it makes perfect sense to jack up the price to a shocking level to force everyone to stop without outright banning them.

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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by revscat on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:47PM (#36313870)

I’m not so sure. I think Huffman saw all the hype around ChatGPT, and how they trained their model on Reddit comments, and had a fantasy about charging AI companies high rates for future API usage. Apollo, et. al., were an afterthought, if consideration was given to them at all.

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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by mynameisvlad on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:57PM (#36314017)

That's certainly fair, but you'd hope that out of the 2000 employees, at least some are in a position to evaluate decisions like that and explicitly calculate the PR risk of any decision. And they certainly should have taken it into account.

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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by gknoy on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:51PM (#36315003)

Not only that, if they really didn't want to kill 3rd party apps, they've had a week to say, "oh no! We see exactly how this is going to kill third party apps, let's iterate to try to fix it so that we don't do that", instead of doubling down on a feud with them.

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Re:Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit –... by btmiller on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @03:34PM (#36315701)

Yes. We all know it wasn’t in earnest, but this allows Reddit to say they tried.

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