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How will Reddit react when blackout starts, will it be positive or negative. What do you think? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it will result in little except for a few exclusions like RedReader for blind people.

That's because the blackout hasn't made any suggestions (AFAIK) to help with the reason why reddit are doing it,

Which is making more money off scraper bots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They could have a lower price Or they could give low price API keys to apps and make the scrap bot pays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or they could just not charge for the API period. Reddit is valued at billions of dollars and has (or at least had) a bunch of investors, so it's very clear they don't need to do this. Not to mention a lot of other people pointed out suggestions in the AMA (not that they listened lol)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They have investors because they are not profitable, they still need to make money. YouTube is worth a lot of money but it's still not profitable.

They probably thought that could be their profitable business model.

Its not crazy to charge for an API above an amount of request. What's insane is the amount they choose to charge.