funfact: /m/interestingasfuck has one post and 2 comments so far. And more than a thousands people waiting for it to do something cool. It's like they are waiting for someone to turn the power button on.
It tells tales about the model of bots feeding reposts to the peanut gallery.
A lot of those big default subs where you would see a lot of the same content being reposted a lot like meirl, interestingasfuck etc. Were heavily botted. It's nice to return, at least for the moment, to a place where every post is a real person making a real post.
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.
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.
I expect there'll be an IPO, Reddit's owners seem fully intent on cashing out at this point. But it's not going to get them anywhere near the amount of money that they were hoping for, and that they probably could have got if they hadn't driven off a cliff like this.
Frankly, the only thing they did was hosted the servers, and the backend at best. But third party apps, RES, the content, and moderation. Besically everything else, everything that made the site actually worth visiting, was not by them.
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