This is part of what pisses me off about Reddit’s changes. They are acting like the community is something they built when in reality it would be nothing without the work of the users and mods.
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which is now glaringly apparent. There will be no IPO and u/spez is toast.
He had a window of opportunity before the EU legislate against the AI's but he busted it with a useless move against an API that wasn't even a threat.
He could have made another API dedicated to AI's and that would be the end of it. But no, somehow he felt the need to show muscles to someone.
There was even already a paid tier available. Require gold or whatever It's called to access the api. Add a commercial more expensive tier for AI. Done.
Guess we are just too common to understand the big brain moves of spez.
This sounds reasonable, so I can see why it was ignored.
There sure has been a lot of crack on r/interestingasfuck the past few days.