The unpaid bots effectively squatting? Sure. The paid for bots, part of the marketing firms that pay Reddit? No.
The API change is simply Reddit shaking off the louse that are the freeloaders. That's most of the site and the real content that draws so many people. I think it's a piss poor way to increase monetization, but wtf do I care? I can't wait until Reddit no longer exists.
We all know that free discussion on the net drawing to an end. For most of us it drew to an end around 2014.
Wonder if this will help the bot problem.
The unpaid bots effectively squatting? Sure. The paid for bots, part of the marketing firms that pay Reddit? No.
The API change is simply Reddit shaking off the louse that are the freeloaders. That's most of the site and the real content that draws so many people. I think it's a piss poor way to increase monetization, but wtf do I care? I can't wait until Reddit no longer exists.
We all know that free discussion on the net drawing to an end. For most of us it drew to an end around 2014.
So how does Reddit actually earn revenue? Ads? Paid AMAs? Paid native marketing?
I think the bulk of their cash is from investors, but they make money from ads, selling reddit gold, and selling their dumb-as-fuck avatar NFTs.