Reddit Migration

So they designed an API that they didn't intend thirdparties to use at all? And documented it publicly without the intention of any devs reading the docs? Right.

What annoys me the most is that they would rather force users to see their ads and interract with their new and useless engagement features than just take payment directly from us, the users, for accessing the API. I'll gladly pay for a premium++ ultra gold plus reddit subscription to continue using Sync. I don't get why they would rather charge the 3rd party devs that literally gives them more users.

So after saying for weeks, if not months, that the new pricing wasn’t designed to kill third-party apps, he’s now saying the exact opposite? And thus admitting that Reddit lied to its community for the whole?

Please, can someone give to this dude any PR training? Even the bare minimum would be an improvement at this point.

By the looks of it, it was never designed to support first party apps either.

It was never designed to support third-party apps.

My brother in Christ… you bought a third party app that used the API

Then what does it have a publicly accessible API for?

Doesn’t he realise the reddit app was a 3rd party app originally that they have made into a shit show?

Says the company who bought alien blue.

3rd party apps came before the official app - in fact didn't the official app start out as a 3rd-party app before it was acquired by Reddit?

I asked him if he felt that Apollo, rif for Reddit, and Sync, which all plan to shut down as a result of the pricing changes, don’t add value to Reddit. “Not as much as they take,” he says. “No way. They need to pay for this."

I don't think anyone has ever said they want the API to remain free, they just want a fairer price model and/or more time to allow existing year-long contracts to be valid. Why the sudden urgency to push out this stupidly high pricing model? The only time-critical event I can think of is Spez's precious IPO, and he's doing a great job at showing potential investors that everything's under control

/s ( <-- are we allowed to use that here?)

The official API access rules, still online, use an android reddit app as an example for how to select a user agent: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/wiki/API#rules

It's hard to argue this wasn't an intended use-case...

This is too much to believe. IMO spez is just the fall guy.This wholole shitshow leads to spez taking the blame for killing reddit, leaving, and then reddit monetizing the api at more reasonable rates than those already announced, while dying a slow death

The more I read from him, the firmer one thought is planted in my brain….

Fuck spez.

Spez is a one-trick-pony. He can only power through protests by ignoring them and brushing them off. Until now it kinda worked, until it doesn't.

It's all about the money, baby.

Oh, well, that makes it ok then. Everybody back to Reddit!

From this article:

While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open

Meanwhile from https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/

If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.

Let it go, overwrite your content and leave reddit.

Deleted my account with the message "Your contempt for your users disgusts me". Oh well, account since 2012 permanently gone. Long live the Fediverse!

If Reddit can handle being data mined by OpenAI, I'm sure it can handle a few dozen apps.

"While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open, according to a fact sheet shared by the company on Thursday. In the fact sheet, Reddit writes that there are more than 100,000 “active communities,” that the company sees 57 million “daily active uniques,” and that there are more than 50,000 daily active moderators. "

This is why we need it to be indefinite.

If it wasn’t for old Reddit and RES I’d be off there today or if platforms like this one get a good user base of quality people. This Fediverse thing is really neat but I think most people will not want to invest the time to learn how to use it. Today is my first day here and I still have a lot of questions for example I know that Mastadon is part of the Fediverse. Does that mean I can use that service due to having a Kbin account or do I have to sign up with one of their servers?