Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark
www.pcmag.com
'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.
  • legion@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Cheap API access was letting the AI platforms pull Reddit data directly via API. That’s why the “fix” was making API access expensive, so that buying the data from Reddit instead becomes the more cost-effective solution.

    Reddit’s not (as) worried about gathering more data to sell, they’re worried about selling the years of data they already have.

    • Trizza Tethis
      1·
      2 years ago

      But charging over a million dollars a month instead makes little sense.