![]() But I pay to support Reddit, for the greater community. All the more remarkable to see Reddit treating said community this way. It's remarkable to imagine creating a platform where community members will be so passionate as to work for free and even spend hundreds of dollars of their own money to enable working for you for free. They'll be closing the sub indefinitely on June 12, and one of the mods has remarked in a sticky comment on the announcement thread that they've been paying "$5/month to run our own servers to do stuff that reddit can't for the past 7-8 years." ![]() It looks like that's what the /r/music team is planning to do already. It would make sense for the time-gated protests to be followed by a longer tail of deterioriating quality as mods simply quit. The community leaders aren't just upset about the policy change, but also trying to avoid contending with managing their communities 100% with reddit's inferior first-party moderation tools. Very short term harm followed by getting exactly what they want >The protests are extremely time boxed too, so if I were Reddit, it seems like a fair trade. (my comment on this topic from another thread) corporate consolidation, and while it's unclear who's winning, I think it's pretty obvious that most of us are losing. Ultimately, this seems to be playing out as the endgame of the open internet v. The best strategic route is to make it economically infeasible for some hypothetical competitor to arise, while still generating revenue from clients willing to pay these much higher rates. Or, perhaps, it's the opposite: for instance, Reddit could be developing its own first-party language model, and any other model with access to semi-realtime data is a potentially existential competitor. These operators need high baseline pricing so they can discount in negotiation with LLM clients. The result is a cost-per-call that is cost-prohibitive at smaller scales, and undoubtedly the UGC platform operators are aware that they're pricing out third-party applications like Apollo and Pushshift. ![]() I don't think these orgs really care much about third-party clients other than a nuisance consuming some fraction of their userbase.Įnterprise deals between these user generated content platforms and LLM platforms may well involve many billions of API requests, and the pricing is likely an order of magnitude less expensive per call due to the volume. I think it's very clear that the recent LLM boom is directly responsible for Twitter, Reddit, and others quickly moving to restricted APIs with exorbitant pricing structures.
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