Reddit, the beginning of the end.

[Drastic]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13x9sy7/now_that_reddit_are_killing_3rd_party_apps_on/

3rd party api access now costs in the millions.

[littleman]

You might be right.  There was a great migration from digg to reddit when people got fed up with the changes at digg.  I've read that their IPO is right around the corner.

[rcjordan]

Fidelity cuts Reddit valuation by 41% | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

[rcjordan]

Debbie says Desperation API is likely to fail at scale.


I built an alternative Reddit API to help devs save costs : Save3rdPartyApps

https://old.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/141brdi/i_built_an_alternative_reddit_api_to_help_devs/

[rcjordan]

*IF* big tech is using /r's massive data hoard to, say, train GPTs then I think reddit has a good reason to charge. Here's the 1st article I saw on the api fee back in April before everything hit the proverbial fan.

Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html

+

I really don't care about the loss of Apollo and such because I roll my own rendering with TM.

[rcjordan]

Twitter and Netflix were supposed to collapse due to their changes.  Trouble is, their users are addicted.

Netflix's password sharing crackdown seems to be working | Engadget

https://www.engadget.com/netflixs-password-sharing-crackdown-seems-to-be-working-151023478.html

[rcjordan]

Some subreddits are still shutting down but a run through my news, science, and medical subs found them to be diminished yet still usable.

[Drastic]

My curated subs (homepage feed) are mostly dead. The only thing running are small, special interest subs. Quite a boring read.

/all was pretty defaced this morning. Still so but not as bad, 4 of the top7 are about the blackout.

I'm surprised they haven't taken over control, so it appears admin plans to just wait this out.

There feels like a real opportunity here for the right tech at the right time.

[rcjordan]

scroll down.


Indefinite Blackout: Next Steps, Polling Your Community, and Where We Go From Here : ModCoord

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/

[Drastic]

And here we go...

[rcjordan]

I lost about a dozen subs that I scan without login.  Of those, about half turned their lights back on already.

[littleman]

There is a little sub I moderate because I like the topic and the five other mods have largely abandoned it.  The sub was getting a lot of spam and I didn't want to see it turn to shit.  Anyway, one of the inactive mods came in and closed it down without consulting anyone else.  I let that stand for the initial protest, but I've since reopened the sub.  I found it irritating because the mod hasn't done any housekeeping in years and just came in to brigade and leave,

[rcjordan]

Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued To Protest | PCMag

https://www.pcmag.com/news/reddit-goes-nuclear-removes-moderators-of-subreddits-that-continued-to

[littleman]

Yeah, I'm very curious how this will all end up.  The Reddit management should remember what happened to Digg.
Some are posting lemmy.world as an alternative.

[rcjordan]

Reddit Is Already on the Rebound | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-is-already-on-the-rebound/


Just like Twitter.