This explains why it seems like they’ve been actively fighting Redlib lately. Every loophole forks have been trying was patched less than 24 hours later, to the point that the only way to use it is a fork that takes a real session cookie, which feels like it somewhat eliminates the point.
We must remember that Reddit was basically worthless company before the AI boom. It’s only true value it had was a largeish userbase, that was also easy to shill and vote manipulate. When started to rise they started scraping the shit out of reddit for free. Then reddit put the walls around the garden and a toll booth at the gate. That is what made them profitable They don’t much care about the actual userbase, i guess they rely on the fact that too many people are too invested in their communities to leave and will keep generating them free training data forever. rn scraping without paying is seen as the bigger threat to their business model.
This explains why it seems like they’ve been actively fighting Redlib lately. Every loophole forks have been trying was patched less than 24 hours later, to the point that the only way to use it is a fork that takes a real session cookie, which feels like it somewhat eliminates the point.
We must remember that Reddit was basically worthless company before the AI boom. It’s only true value it had was a largeish userbase, that was also easy to shill and vote manipulate. When started to rise they started scraping the shit out of reddit for free. Then reddit put the walls around the garden and a toll booth at the gate. That is what made them profitable They don’t much care about the actual userbase, i guess they rely on the fact that too many people are too invested in their communities to leave and will keep generating them free training data forever. rn scraping without paying is seen as the bigger threat to their business model.