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Oh, that’s rich. The API was created for third party access. And if he didn’t like it, why was it tolerated for so long? Hmmm…maybe because they brought in more users and their data to fatten the pig before IPO?
So, Alien Blue was not a third-party app?
Great Snoo Platform... lie.
I don't think anyone is saying that Reddit shouldn't charge the 3rd party apps. Pretty sure they just wanted fair pricing.
If they would have just made it so that you needed Reddit Premium to use 3rd party apps I would have thought that was fair and subscribed
Reddit gave the 'fuck you' price for third party apps, then the guy in charge lied through his teeth about convrosations that has happened.
Deleted my reddit account. Twitter lost my patronage. Soo too will reddit. I'm not putting up with this noise.
He's a liar, there is no way the would have let 3rd party apps use their API for over a decade if they "didn't mean for 3rd party apps..."
This just in CEO absolutely clueless.
If that would have been the case then why was the API not protected from public use? Why did it use API-Keys?
Omg what a dumb idiot. What is a third party app that adds functionality and usability? Certainly not a tool right?
And he didn't know that there was this increased API usage? Did he just woke up from a coma?
Damn, bro really just essentially said "get fucked". He also in essence admitted in the interview that the intention was to kill off certain third party apps, saying they provide little to no value to the platform.
I really think the root problem here is that we're building communities on private platforms owned by for profit corporations. The intention is to make money off your interactions, and to an extent how you have them. Instead of providing you with a service, you become the service. A commodity to be sold to advertisers and whatever nonsense they can get you to look at on their platforms.
This is why ActivityPub is important. You (mostly) don't see this kind of fuck shit happening with SMTP, instead they just couple services in with your email (O365, G Suite). Communicating and connecting with other people shouldn't be a business venture, and I hope social media continues to become increasingly unprofitable for these companies.
saying they provide little to no value to the platform.
Time will tell. I will no longer contribute without RiF, so the question isn't whether RiF provides value to Reddit but whether I do.
My Karma says I do.