APIs for content sites must be free
I like vehement arguments even when I disagree with them.<p>Based on this man&#x27;s logic, if I were to run a web forum then I <i>must</i> provide an API or data dump to download the posts created by the users? How about a comment section on my blog? How about a community Discord server? Why not Facebook posts? Or Instagram stories?<p>I often get the feeling that in these circumstances people derive first principles from specific desired outcomes. Some people strongly desire that the content that has been aggregated on Reddit should be available to them. They then attempt to invent moral axioms that they believe will lead to that outcome. They also seem to reinvent history such that there was some &quot;implicit&quot; agreement between Reddit and the users of Reddit.<p>IMO, just because I wrote some shitposts on Reddit does not mean that I am entitled access to every single shitpost that has ever been written on Reddit.