• meddler15Regain@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s not necessarily greed. The infrastructure to keep Reddit alive can’t be cheap. How do you pay for that? VC money has dried up so these services that have been free to users are all quickly scrambling to make money. I definitely think they did it wrong. They should have planned the API fee changes out for years instead of trying to force it in a month.

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        1 year ago

        They make money by serving adds to the people providing their site content.

        And no, that is not what happened. They were trying to increase their valuation for future share holders.

        Edit: adding it is the only greed, that is the reason.