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TechCrunch shouted out Lemmy and Kbin in their Reddit coverage today: Reddit CEO lashes out on protests, moderators and third-party apps (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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In response to Huffman’s comments, moderators are trying to find ways to make blackouts effective. Alternatively, some communities are also setting up servers on alternative sites like Lemmy and Kbin.

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[–] Hellebert@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think if they just wanted to serve ads to third party apps they would have worked out a deal with them to revenue share at the very least and do this.

My guess is that they want to pitch Reddit as this huge datasource for AI in the upcoming IPO and they can't do that if they're giving it away for free.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's to stop AI companies from just scraping Reddit's HTML? The two big AI companies—Google and Microsoft—already do that as part of their search engine indexing!

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HTML scraping is standard practice for AI development in most major companies. It's not even actually that difficult, there are tools like Selenium that make it really easy and manageable to completely automate.

[–] Hellebert@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Shhh don't tell investors when they IPO soon!