The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

  • zombiepete@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This will be when the true test for Reddit begins; if the outcry is large enough that spez ends up relenting in some way then he will have already alienated a lot of users. If the outcry is minimal then I guess he won, but the prize hardly seems worth the drama that has been spun up.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      It isn’t going to be outcry, it is going to be drop in traffic. Spez is gambling that third party app users will switch to the official app. I won’t, and I hope most others don’t.