This is one thing that I’m still scratching my head about. Like, Reddit said no once, and everyone just shrugged and moved on.

I’d understand if most just threw in the towel completely and never wanted to work with Reddit at all, but it seems most would prefer continue to work on their apps.

And since most apps were free or even FOSS, why not say screw that, and make a (perhaps) last update with a field for the user to enter their own key?

Of course only a few users would take advantage of that, but then there’s even less reason for Reddit to actually care about that, if they could even detect it at all.

I know some forks may pop up, I’m just wondering about the devs themselves.

  • ActuallyRuben@actuallyruben.nl
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    2 years ago

    There’s three things I’d expect that reddit could do in retaliation:

    • They’re able to identify the people using an API key for this, and either deny them API access, or straight up ban them
    • They further restrict free API access, rendering this option useless
    • They take legal action against the app developers

    And even if they don’t take any action, ask yourself this: do you really want to keep using reddit, with the way they’re acting right now? All this feels like a big middle finger towards their oldest users.