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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Late to the conversation here, but in the same camp. About to delete a 13.5 year old account.

I'd be fine with Reddit making money, if they did it in an honest and predictable way. The way they're going about it though is short sighted, deceitful, and completely unnecessary.

They could make money hand over fist if they just tweaked their approach a tad, kept the community happy, etc.

Bundle API usage in with Reddit Premium. Have it use upper limits of say 100k requests/month to the API. Anything over that and it's on a per 10k/requests billing cycle sort of thing.

Push the cost to the consumer, so if AI wants to scrape all the data, they can pay for it just like everyone else.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just burned my nearly 12 year old account. It's just not worth it anymore. Reddit has made promises it can't keep and does not intend on keeping.