• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    The company reported nearly 100 million monthly users, an increase of 47% from the year prior

    My bullshit-o-meter is pegged at 11.

    I’ve been on reddit lately and I’ll eat my shoe if that 50% increase was in any way actual real humans, because there’s no damn way.

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      This was the reason they made the API changes. They wanted to charge for easy access to the content. Sure, you can scrape every Reddit page, but nobody has time for that. Pay up and hoover down Reddit comments for you AI training.

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        It also forced users onto their app, which creates a captive market for force-serving ads disguised as content.