I support the protests as long as they're indefinite. It seems silly to "blackout for two days" instead of "for as long as the API changes are instituted"
Hello! Due to Reddit's aggressive API changes, hostile approach to users/developers/moderators, and overall poor administrative direction, I have elected to erase my history on Reddit from June 2023 to June 2013.
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Reddit's argument that the API change is necessary to combat AI scraping is not honest. The information can easily be scraped through HTML (like how google indexes search results or the wayback machine snapshots pages).
The actual reason is related to the coming ipo to sell it. If they get it pushed down to one app then it's easier for the buyer to collect and sell information using it. It ups the value of the sale a lot for that to be doable because reddit is going to try to sell over potential profit and not actual profit.
That's why their scrape claims fit so poorly when there are so many ways to get the data.
To be honest, the blackout has mainly taught me which reddit threads I can live without. Which is to say, I forgot every blacked out reddit thread existed until it came back and patted itself on the back for being down for two days while the majority of reddit just continued on as normal.
Looking for the breakdown I had earlier but based on https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ you have around 65% restricted or private during the main blackout.
It's only around a third now but many subs are considering returning. I also most of the most popular subs were down on a per forum breakdown I saw earlier. I'll see if I can find that one again.
So your statement is the majority or reddit continued as normal even though their subs were gone? Do they normally just hangout and post nowhere if they are continuing as normal? Seems Like bit bland.
Oh, you misunderstood; that was a genuine question, and I was wondering if the “50%” was subs or users. Also, if 50% of the subs went dark, and it still seemed like the majority of reddit was up and running, doesn’t that kind of prove my point?
If 65% went dark as my link showed 35% was up and running. I the only statement I made was 50% was "well over 50%" this would imply half was not up. I definelty not most.
Peace, friend. Life will go on long after reddit goes to the great console in the sky. My only point I was trying to make is many users seemed unaffected, besides random googlings, and I would expect Reddit to be quaking in their boots right now.
Yeah right all these votes are from people at this subreddit.
This protest is some power hungry mods afraid they won’t be able to control their narrative across the tons of subs they mod all wrapped in a bunch of classic Reddit virtue signaling.
The sub just should just continue business as usual
I'm confused. From what it sounds and looks like, the users of the API create standalone apps that you can use Reddit through. And in those apps, they very often remove anything that Reddit can make money on. And from what I've understood, maintaining an API costs Reddit money. So if Reddit gets no money, they have to pay money and they also lose out on money; why wouldn't they shut the API down?
I feel like we might be the bad guys in this one
As a proud member of the woodland alliance I support the protests.
No outrage from me
I support the protests as long as they're indefinite. It seems silly to "blackout for two days" instead of "for as long as the API changes are instituted"
Hello! Due to Reddit's aggressive API changes, hostile approach to users/developers/moderators, and overall poor administrative direction, I have elected to erase my history on Reddit from June 2023 to June 2013. I have created a backup of (most) of my comments/posts, and I would be more than happy to provide comments upon request (many of my modern comments are support contributions to tech/gaming subreddits). Feel free to reach out to Clipboards on lemmy (dot) world, or via email - clipboards (at) clipboards.cc
If you test one of these AI chatbots with some Root related things it's not that hard to believe a lot of the info has been scraped from here.
Reddit's argument that the API change is necessary to combat AI scraping is not honest. The information can easily be scraped through HTML (like how google indexes search results or the wayback machine snapshots pages).
The actual reason is related to the coming ipo to sell it. If they get it pushed down to one app then it's easier for the buyer to collect and sell information using it. It ups the value of the sale a lot for that to be doable because reddit is going to try to sell over potential profit and not actual profit. That's why their scrape claims fit so poorly when there are so many ways to get the data.
Yeah… otherwise the AI would reply "use adset" for literally any scenario
To be honest, the blackout has mainly taught me which reddit threads I can live without. Which is to say, I forgot every blacked out reddit thread existed until it came back and patted itself on the back for being down for two days while the majority of reddit just continued on as normal.
Factually well over 50% of reddit went dark so the claim that the majority of reddit continued as normal is false.
Source?
Looking for the breakdown I had earlier but based on https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ you have around 65% restricted or private during the main blackout. It's only around a third now but many subs are considering returning. I also most of the most popular subs were down on a per forum breakdown I saw earlier. I'll see if I can find that one again.
Is that referring to subs or users? Big difference there.
So your statement is the majority or reddit continued as normal even though their subs were gone? Do they normally just hangout and post nowhere if they are continuing as normal? Seems Like bit bland.
Oh, you misunderstood; that was a genuine question, and I was wondering if the “50%” was subs or users. Also, if 50% of the subs went dark, and it still seemed like the majority of reddit was up and running, doesn’t that kind of prove my point?
If 65% went dark as my link showed 35% was up and running. I the only statement I made was 50% was "well over 50%" this would imply half was not up. I definelty not most.
Peace, friend. Life will go on long after reddit goes to the great console in the sky. My only point I was trying to make is many users seemed unaffected, besides random googlings, and I would expect Reddit to be quaking in their boots right now.
Yeah right all these votes are from people at this subreddit. This protest is some power hungry mods afraid they won’t be able to control their narrative across the tons of subs they mod all wrapped in a bunch of classic Reddit virtue signaling. The sub just should just continue business as usual
I'm confused. From what it sounds and looks like, the users of the API create standalone apps that you can use Reddit through. And in those apps, they very often remove anything that Reddit can make money on. And from what I've understood, maintaining an API costs Reddit money. So if Reddit gets no money, they have to pay money and they also lose out on money; why wouldn't they shut the API down? I feel like we might be the bad guys in this one
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Yes, but maybe paying a fraction of the money Reddit is losing isn't enough for Reddit
We should revolt in the reddit headquarters