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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3 (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't have a strong opinion about whole API access controversy but it does spark a greater debate about how we let centralized services like Reddit subsume the Internet forum culture of old. Of course, Reddit in many ways is a superior product to the decentralized forums of old (you only need one account to post) but at the same time, this whole protest has proven especially damaging to people who rely heavily on Reddit as a resource for support (like the mental health subreddits, the chronic disease ones, etc.).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is just me, personally, but I hate Reddits stance on the API situation about AI learning, and how it's not profitable to offer the data for free. Excuse me, the data doesn't even exist without the users. I get we are all data-harvested, but to completely pull the rug like this is unforgivable. I mean the TPA's were the only way I interacted with Reddit. For me, it's not about the ads, the money or anything, it's deliberately killing the TPA to drive their profits up. I mean fuck, I'd pay a subscription to access reddit if it kept TPA open. But nah, gonna act like they earned my data and are entitled to it, no thanks.

This is probably a dumb comment, sorry. I can't word very well and I don't usually get out what's going through my head