Assuming Facebook doesn't get ahold of this...
Tyfud
joined 2 years ago
Completely agreed. We'll have to see where this goes.
I think the masses of people will latch onto the next easy thing.
Facebook might be a place where only Boomers go now, but it's still incredibly influential and effective at manipulating the world around us in historically negative ways.
Reddit and even Twitter will remain for a while yet. Despite their best efforts to kill themselves
You know what? Forget the hangout.
It's against their best interests to have an educated population. Always has been. Always will be.
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.
Unless they pull an EEE. Which they absolutely would.
The fediverse admins all over would need to be vigilant and refuse Facebook access to the fediverse, otherwise we'll get extinguished, just like XMPP