Breakingviews - Reddit’s golden geese foul up its IPO plans
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Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.

Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.

  • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    Often its easier to just scrape everything rather than making a whole code to pull api requests and put them into a database and sort them while doing so. These companies scrape the entire internet, they don’t have time or necessarie to use api, they don’t need permanent access to a two way communication, they just need the data.