reddit is burning!

[♥ Blissey ♥]

To be fair, I heard reddit is trying to charge millions for third party apps to continue their services. That's pretty effed if rumors are true. That's a "f*ck you" price.

thats exactly what theyre doing, theyre saying "hey no more third party apps" but without actually saying that.
which sucks, because third party apps are quintessential to browsing reddit on mobile - they predate the official reddit app, and continue to supersede it with their breadth of features.

overall theres been this trend of social media sites/apps trying to become homogeneous and do away with the features that make them unique. discord with the usernames, tumblr with its increased emphasis on algorithms/recommendations, and reddit here.
i fucking hate it. sending rancid vibes to the shareholders at the helm here.

[Hawaiian]

To be fair, I heard reddit is trying to charge millions for third party apps to continue their services. That's pretty effed if rumors are true. That's a "f*ck you" price.

Yeah it feels like reddit has slowly been getting worse over the years.
I still use old.reddit and once that's gone I'll probably not use the site anymore.
It's understandable they are pushing the profit-model ahead of their IPO but they might've pushed too hard.

[LibraryFaerie]

yes @(you need an account to see links) the world of web archiving is really interesting and useful! Wayback Machine does lots of web crawling on it's own (with some limitations), I've definitely gotten lost checking out really old versions of some websites.


I agree about r/neo and APIs. I think they just didn't want to cross the picket line.

[Lilac Tentacles]

thats exactly what theyre doing, theyre saying "hey no more third party apps" but without actually saying that.
which sucks, because third party apps are quintessential to browsing reddit on mobile - they predate the official reddit app, and continue to supersede it with their breadth of features.

overall theres been this trend of social media sites/apps trying to become homogeneous and do away with the features that make them unique. discord with the usernames, tumblr with its increased emphasis on algorithms/recommendations, and reddit here.
i fucking hate it. sending rancid vibes to the shareholders at the helm here.

I'm a mod in a couple of moderately populous subs. I can't do squat without my apps. Ill probably drop out and just browse if they go through with it. I'm not fighting to bot with their software on my phone manually.

[Aero]

To be fair, I heard reddit is trying to charge millions for third party apps to continue their services. That's pretty effed if rumors are true. That's a "f*ck you" price.

They are-- the biggest dev is Christian from Apollo App (iOS). They quoted him 20 million/year to run his app... and then to make it worse Spez (childish CEO of Reddit who has gotten in trouble before for antics) accused Christian of "blackmailing" or "threatening" Reddit. In pure popcorn fashion, Christian came with the tapes to show that that wasn't true... but Spez doubled down in his disaster of an AMA.

There's also the issue that mod tools and accessibility tools are basically shit on the Reddit app itself lmao.

I hate to admit it, but I've been on Reddit for a while now and I'm disappointed in all this and will be quitting my mobile usage and limiting my desktop usage. It's probably for the best anyways... it's just disappointing to leave some niche hobby subs that I'm in

[Lilac Tentacles]

They are-- the biggest dev is Christian from Apollo App (iOS). They quoted him 20 million/year to run his app... and then to make it worse Spez (childish CEO of Reddit who has gotten in trouble before for antics) accused Christian of "blackmailing" or "threatening" Reddit. In pure popcorn fashion, Christian came with the tapes to show that that wasn't true... but Spez doubled down in his disaster of an AMA.

There's also the issue that mod tools and accessibility tools are basically shit on the Reddit app itself lmao.

I hate to admit it, but I've been on Reddit for a while now and I'm disappointed in all this and will be quitting my mobile usage and limiting my desktop usage. It's probably for the best anyways... it's just disappointing to leave some niche hobby subs that I'm in

Spez is a spaz and honestly a little less reddit is probably good for us all lol. Just sucks because I love the embroidery community and I enjoy the nasty popping subreddit. Don't @ me 🤣

[Crooked]

In theory, I can understand the motivation for reddit wanting to charge money and not wanting the site to just be free training for AI. But we all know it isn't just about that. Charging millions is absolutely ludicrous. I'm not a redditor but I know how beloved apps like Apollo are to the community and I get why everyone is so pissed off.

Reddit's asking price is especially ridiculous when considering how practically the whole site depends on free labor performed by its users. Site content is fully generated by what users upload, and patrolled by unpaid subreddit administrators and moderators (I'm sure reddit has its own backend team but sub moderators are definitely the first line of defense). Unless I'm mistaken, users don't get paid by reddit for anything. At least with sites like YouTube or Tiktok there's potential for ad revenue as well as sponsors and partnerships with the platforms themselves. The world of Reddit moderation seems pretty thankless.

The sceptic in me thinks that the blackout is going to do a whole lot of nothing and after tomorrow most subs will go back to business as usual, but who knows. I wish them luck in sending their point across. I'm just too used to every platform careening off a cliff at this point, haha. Sometimes I really miss the internet of the 00s.

[xmilo]

i was just thinking yesterday, what's up with reddit. all channels are private and locked up. so there's this reddit blackout going on...
i wonder if reddit will stay firm like twitter, or waver in these protests... hmmmmm...

[Ice]

I'm by no means a reddit power-user and do carry some surface level disdain for your stereotypical redditor bro behavior but this blackout definitely made it very apparent how much I do rely on reddit for random bits of quick answer or even in depth answer knowledge for a lot of random stuff - I think that was the beauty of reddit, how you could find a subreddit and niche info/community for just about ANYTHING. So from a knowledge compendium perspective, yeah it's kind of insane to consider the amount of information that could just go up in a puff of smoke. But I think I'm also just a pessimist as well in thinking that things will probably go back to normal... I mean personally I've never even heard of any of these third party apps and just use reddit as is (whether desktop or mobile) so I'm definitely not in the affected group of users. The kickback towards accessibility apps though is absurd and with how big their platform is, the prices they're gouging are so unjustified.

Also the fact that the founders are from my alma mater lmao... yea not surprised in the least.

[Excalibur]

as much as i like reddit i will say:

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this is good. Reddit has gotten greedy. let em burn honestly.

however i did like my mechanical keeb sub reddits alot lol

there will be new outlets if the ship sinks