Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.
However, they do understand that the APIcalypse will make their financial figures look great, and that’s what actually matters in the coming IPO. They also understand that these actions will hurt the site and that the fallout will come at a notable delay. However, by the time it’s clear the site has only a few months to live, the previous owners have already taken the money and left. At that point, it’s a problem for the new owners. Let them figure out how to fix a sinking ship.
they do understand that the APIcalypse will make their financial figures look great
That would require people to actually pay that API pricing. The apps closing down and AI people scraping the web site instead won’t help them.
Ahh, but it’s a bit more subtle than that.
The API pricing was a tool to kill the apps, because Reddit is not able to milk ad money from those users. Now that most of the 3rd party apps are dead and most subs are open, users have no choice but to be exposed to adds. That’s where the real money is.
Also, AI only really needs to scrape a post once. I don’t think there will be much financial gain from openai or someone else scraping reddit
