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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • He’s right that Reddit’s “aggressive posture” is what’s annoyed a lot of users. When I first heard of them adding API costs, I didn’t care, because I didn’t use 3rd party apps. But their attitude since then is why I don’t want to use Reddit now.

    They could have apologised for the inconvenience caused by their changes. They could have said something like “we recognise there are users who are not happy with these changes, and we apologise for the inconvenience, but we are in a position where we have to cover our server costs, or else Reddit may not survive into the future”. If they had put it like THAT then I bet most people would have understood where they’re coming from.

    But instead they say things like “oh it’s only a small amount of users who are unhappy” and “this will blow over like all of these controversies do”. Basically saying “we don’t need to listen to you, fuck you, fuck your opinions, we assume you’ll use Reddit anyway”. AND didn’t they say they would respect mods protesting by shutting their subreddits? And then they’re like “no fuck you we’ll just force them open”.

    So the impression they give off is not that they’re doing these API changes out of a financial necessity to ensure Reddit can survive into the future - instead, like many users have said, it seems like they are literally just trying to milk as many profits as possible in the short-term, so they can cash in as much as possible on the IPO, and then they can quit Reddit and retire to the Caribbean.













  • It’s just manipulation of course. They’re trying to guilt-trip mods into doing what Reddit wants. Reddit’s concern here is obviously not for the poor innocent users being deprived their access to these subreddits. Reddit’s concern is maximising the amount of cash that flows into their pockets.

    If Reddit actually cared about the users then they would respect the subreddits where users have voted to keep the subreddit private or change the subreddit to NSFW content. But Reddit is not respecting these votes from users, because they only care about the cash flowing into their pockets.




  • It would be cool if you could see stuff from other servers/instances without someone from your server/instance interacting with it first, yes.

    At the moment I am personally not complaining though. I am sure the developers have tons of things they’re trying to work on at the moment. And I can still see stuff from other instances/servers.