What I find interesting is this could be avoided by granting exceptions to the existing app devs and being done with it.

I get the api costs money and theres folks like pushshift aggregating data and using it for their own profit. I’m sure plenty of companies are using data for adverts and more. And there’s an argument there Reddit deserves a cut. Especially if they are using the api to train bots or ai to have conversations for their own inventions.

But just the ass backwards way they handled devs of existing 3p apps that constitute value add to their data sets is just…mesmerizing.

And if these users ARENT a majority of the usage or costs, why bother cutting them off and not just granting exceptions.