The people using Reddit for its data have the easiest time scraping it for its data since they don’t need API access to post, comment, or moderate; it’s unfortunate that Reddit management continues to degrade the experience of the average user just to make it slightly harder for that scraping to occur.
Exactly. A large part of the issue here is that reddit tried to sell astroturfing as a service, but everyone quickly realized you can just astroturf reddit for free.
The whole “Thanos snap” thing was reddit launching that service, I am convinced.
There’s your problem, Reddit, you think it’s your data.
This sentiment sums up so much of what is wrong with modern consumer oriented tech companies
The people using Reddit for its data have the easiest time scraping it for its data since they don’t need API access to post, comment, or moderate; it’s unfortunate that Reddit management continues to degrade the experience of the average user just to make it slightly harder for that scraping to occur.
Exactly. A large part of the issue here is that reddit tried to sell astroturfing as a service, but everyone quickly realized you can just astroturf reddit for free.
The whole “Thanos snap” thing was reddit launching that service, I am convinced.
I dont want reddit selling my data, but with Lemmy - google just gets it for free… I hate that even more.
Could we make Lemmy private?