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The self-induced calamities over at Reddit created a feedback loop that caused other calamities to arise. Anyway, for those looking to leave Reddit I'm glad they are finding refuge in #fediverse projects instead. #reddit #RedditBlackout #RedditMigration

Reddit starts crashing as subreddit blackout keeps growing

Reddit is experiencing an outage on the same day thousands of its subreddits have gone dark to protest its planned API changes.
Jay Peters (The Verge)
#fediverse #reddit #redditmigration #redditblackout
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Hank G ☑️
Hank G ☑️
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TL;DR they are trying to go for IPO and had to bump up their financials so decided to charge more than Twitter prices for the API and give developers little time to respond to those changes. Then they told them all to go pound sand when they were trying to work with them, accused them of extortion and the like, and told everyone to just suck it up or take their toys and go home. A huge swath of both the developer and user community decided to do the latter.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager
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I fully understand the API cost and 3rd party apps being used by Mods, etc.
I thought this whole thing ( reddit attempts to monitize aside ) was caused by an attempt to throttle OpenAI and other LLM 'harvesters' from using their content for data sets.
If the LLM folks can't be stopped by polite means ( or legal type actions ) what is a site like reddit to do?
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Hank G ☑️
Hank G ☑️
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I've only followed the API monetization discussion around the Apollo app debacle. The arguments weren't that it was unfair to charge them it was the pricing, which they were told amorphously would not be in Twitter "Japanese No" level, and the fact they had 30 days until they were charged so couldn't even do a proper test run to see what the actual costs were. I didn't hear anything about OpenAI or LLM but the rate limits. Maybe that was a factor as well but I didn't see anything about it.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager
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It's the NYT but seems to be the oldest story.
NYT Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems

Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems

The internet site has long been a forum for discussion on a huge variety of topics, and companies like Google and OpenAI have been using it in their A.I. projects.
Mike Isaac (The New York Times)
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton
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Reddit's always been kind of crazy (like Slashdot). I've been there for quite some time (12 years). I'm not very regular/active there and when I am there, it's mostly on sub-reddits that I'm familiar with and that aren't too crazy. ;)
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Nick Matthews
Nick Matthews
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are there Reddit style fediverse projects as alternatives?
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Hank G ☑️
Hank G ☑️
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Lemmy and KBin are what I keep seeing batted around. I have used neither though.
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fodworeq
fodworeq
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@cass_m@friendica.myportal.socia why you no lemmy or kbin
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