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   Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 04:05:43 JST Parker Banks
   Am I missing anything about the whole Reddit freakout?
   The company isn't profitable, third-party applications make profit off free API requests, while costing Reddit money and losing them revenue. Redditors cry over it because stuff isn't magically free. The end.
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     Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 04:05:42 JST Parker Banks

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     @coin Using some other company to host images/video is just offsetting the costs to that company and in the end still has to be paid for by users somewhere.
     Fediverse Contractor likes this.
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     Token (coin@asimon.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 04:05:43 JST Token

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     @parker They shouldn't have started hosting videos and images on locally if they couldn't afford it.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 04:06:45 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     It’s that whole mentality (very common here too) that everything should be free even if it’s at someone else’s expense.