Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few

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MildlyInteresting mods are back

Still missing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/

https://www.reddit.com/r/self/

https://www.reddit.com/r/IllegalLifeProTips/

Back, but with modmail permissions only

I really need a TL;DR on everything that's happened over the past month!

Is it correct that Reddit hiked its API prices in response to realising their data is worth a fortune (since it can be used to train/update LLMs)? Is this understanding correct?

Wouldn't it be possible to do a 'Common Crawl' [1] just for reddit, or would the lag (of perhaps a few minutes) make third-party reddit apps built off crawled data too slow? (if LinkedIn couldn't stop scrapers, why does Reddit think they can?)

I don't know the answer to any of these questions, but I'm really curious.

[1] https://commoncrawl.org/

> Is it correct that Reddit hiked its API prices in response to realising their data is worth a fortune (since it can be used to train/update LLMs)? Is this understanding correct?

This was one of their stated reasons, but as you note, this rationale doesn't make a whole lot of sense considering that most AI datasets would just train based off scraped Reddit data, which wouldn't require use of their official APIs.

In practice, it was likely to kill third party apps, in a copycat move of what Twitter did earlier this year.

Ohh... so reddit is intentionally trying to kill off the third party apps. I never even considered that (figured they'd try to support them if they could). I see why users are disgruntled.

I’d also recommend reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_t... and the 2 stickied posts on that subreddit.

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