I don’t think that’s likely to happen. Based on the AMA announcement, I’m guessing that - at most - there will be a few (temporary) concessions made to moderators and some (empty) promises to work on accessibility.
0% chance they go back to a free API. Maybe, just maybe they end up scaling back API pricing for third-party apps to something reasonable that would grant them the same revenue per user that they would get from the first-party app.
The other piece of this is that the API is also used to train AI on Reddit’s data. For that application, given the colossal amount of venture capital going into AI right now, their API pricing isn’t all that absurd. If Reddit were reasonable they would offer different pricing depending on what the API is going to be used for–but, then again, it’s Reddit, so personally I’m throwing in my lot with FOSS.
Unless they announce they’re going to undo the pricing changes completely, I don’t see myself using reddit anymore.
They’ve already fucked the RSS feeds.
@xevizero @thomas my fear is that they do and people go back to using Reddit. It’s too late I’m done with them.
If history tells us anything, they don’t even have to actually do it. Just say they’ll do it and it’ll never come up again.
I don’t think that’s likely to happen. Based on the AMA announcement, I’m guessing that - at most - there will be a few (temporary) concessions made to moderators and some (empty) promises to work on accessibility.
I doubt they’re going to. Why do an AMA other than to tell everyone how they are wrong?
0% chance they go back to a free API. Maybe, just maybe they end up scaling back API pricing for third-party apps to something reasonable that would grant them the same revenue per user that they would get from the first-party app.
The other piece of this is that the API is also used to train AI on Reddit’s data. For that application, given the colossal amount of venture capital going into AI right now, their API pricing isn’t all that absurd. If Reddit were reasonable they would offer different pricing depending on what the API is going to be used for–but, then again, it’s Reddit, so personally I’m throwing in my lot with FOSS.