The Fediverse, LLMs, and Rate Limiting
Both Reddit and Twitter made policy changes over the last couple of months to restrict API access purportedly due to large increases in LLM training traffic. Centralized Social Media I was just refreshing myself on the Reddit situation timeline on Wikipedia . Reuters reported February 14 that Reddit was looking to IPO in the second half of 2023. April 18th brought the announcement that Reddit would be charging for API access after a 60-day notice period ( Reddit , The Verge )....