valveman

Agreed, I think it’s a good time to be here: Mastodon has been gaining a lot of ground these days, thanks to Elon; other apps like Peertube, Pixelfed, Lemmy and Kbin are growing as well. Now I actually enjoy the experience of the Fediverse, and I hope it keeps growing and maybe dethrone current mainstream media.

Reddit was moaning about the cost of maintaining a public API that is being heavily farmed by AI learning

TL;DR: Spez is a scumbag and don’t care if people use Reddit content to train AI models, he wants to kill 3rd party apps.

I don’t think they’re actually worried about people using their data to train AI models, since Sam Altman (OpenAI’s CEO) is a Reddit investor and was a former chairman until 2022. I mean, either spez knew Sam was using it (my theory is that they’re “friends” and spez knew it all along) OR spez didn’t see Reddit content as valuable until now. Either way, Reddit started to limit access from mobile browsers, forcing users to use their official app. I don’t know, but it seems to me spez is trying to kill 3rd party apps instead of just creating a better protection against scraping.

Just guessing, but maybe this has something to do with instances overload