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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dimspace@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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[–] Pika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

that's how they did it. They put a 10 request a minute on bots and a higher oauth limit (100) for individuals. large User client type apps could have somewhat easily converted over to that system but due to time constraint they didn't. I do think they extorted their third party devs sure but, honestly the individual user limit isn't super unreasonable as long as you aren't liking or disliking every post. the search api is 100 posts per Api request, it was more the no NSFW and the no advertising limits they put on it that sucked

edit: its actually 10 or 100 per minute not hour

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not that simple, because the third party apps ship with a single api key. So I used Relay for reddit, and used the same api key as everyone else on that app. You could create an app, and then have everyone make their own key, but that is just asking for trouble. Definitely too technical for most people, and you would probably need to put in billing info for a scenario where you go above the free-tier call limit.

[–] Pika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

update: removed the comment because I was looking at the Api docs again and it seems that despite using the bearer token, metrics and rate limiting still are based off the app client ID, which is super stupid.