There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data | John Naughton
www.theguardian.com
CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

Ouch

  • Pika@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    1 year ago

    that’s how they did it. They put a 10 request a minute on bots and a higher oauth limit (100) for individuals. large User client type apps could have somewhat easily converted over to that system but due to time constraint they didn’t. I do think they extorted their third party devs sure but, honestly the individual user limit isn’t super unreasonable as long as you aren’t liking or disliking every post. the search api is 100 posts per Api request, it was more the no NSFW and the no advertising limits they put on it that sucked

    edit: its actually 10 or 100 per minute not hour

    • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      It’s not that simple, because the third party apps ship with a single api key. So I used Relay for reddit, and used the same api key as everyone else on that app. You could create an app, and then have everyone make their own key, but that is just asking for trouble. Definitely too technical for most people, and you would probably need to put in billing info for a scenario where you go above the free-tier call limit.

      • Pika@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah but if you’re going to use the oauth 2 method you don’t use the same API key as everyone, how that works is you authorize your account with the bot, the company gives you a bearer token and then that token is what’s used for rate limits. The Bot client token is not used in that process, the oauth2 bearer token is

        this is taken from the reddit Api docs: As of July 1, 2023, we will enforce two different rate limits for those eligible for free access usage of our Data API. The limits are:

        If you are using OAuth for authentication: 100 queries per minute (QPM) per OAuth client ID
If you are not using OAuth for authentication: 10 QPM

        so apperently I undershot it, it’s actually 100 requests per minute not per hour like I originally thought it was