this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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[–] fox@lemmy.one 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not that bad. C'mon now.

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] fox@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago
[–] SuperSloth@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The last panel should be the fox digging a shallow grave for Apollo

[–] skeletorsass@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They just want to sell ads. Corporate profit moment.

[–] average650@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why not just charge a reasonable amount for the api then? It's more complicated than that I think.

[–] Dalek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

They also want the data but I wouldn’t be surprise if it’s more complicated

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they are doing it so they can show the investors that an API request costs A amount and each request earns B amount, and we get C amount of API requests a day so in theory they will earn C(B-A). which will be a larger number if B is bigger which is what they have changed recently. This is all about the IPO.

[–] average650@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That makes more sense... But only if someone actually pays it. I don't see anyone paying what they're asking.

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

No, they want to steal data you create and profit from it, while offering nothing but spite in return.

If you make the data, the data belongs to you. That data has value, in spite of what Silicon Valley tech companies tell everyone. If it didn't have value, then these companies wouldn't be amongst the wealthiest businesses in the world.

[–] nulspace@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It really do be like that

[–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, that's not even the worst part of the whole API debaucle.

The issue with moderation tools alone is more than enough to shut their coffin shut, yet I don't see reddit doing anything about that at all.

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This is the issue.

We’ve known for over a decade that people come to Reddit to talk about the products they love – take r/BuyItForLife for example, a community of over 1.5 million redditors who have been sharing recommendations and advice about their lifelong, must-have purchases since 2011. These updates will uplevel the search-and-discover experience for both brands and our users by tapping into our differentiated value as a hub for actionable conversation

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/investing-in-what-makes-reddit-unique-introducing-contextual-keyword-targeting-and-product-ads

So they are now going to make it so corporate shills can dilute the quality of their content with a whole lotta shit

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

You know they fucked up when ifunny users shit on them

[–] notExactlyI20@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Truly a Corpo Reddit moment.

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No Fox, no! Don't hurt my RiF!

[–] fox@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I was framed.

[–] Bicyclejohn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Noo not my Foss

[–] amortized_cost@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

If they didn't make all stupidly nearsighted decisions they could've been a leading AI company, especially with all those language data they've been collecting almost exclusively with all the spam filterations mods been doing for free. Stupid as hell.