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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark (www.pcmag.com)

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'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

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[-] frogman@beehaw.org 39 points 1 year ago

this article was from 2 days ago, hopefully there will be new light tomorrow. although, reddit's history of corporatising at the expense of users, and their respect thereto, is still significant. let's hope to see some awareness from the less technically & socially active reddit user-base tomorrow :p

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

I got off there as soon as I saw them slandering the creator of Apollo for ‘threats’, now I’m hoping he’ll just shift focus and make it into a badass Lemmy app instead.

[-] lucien@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago

Spez answered a total of 14 softballs, and 7 more questions were answered by other employees with ultimately no satisfactory outcomes or answers. You didn't really miss much unless you like watching people pour gasoline on dumpster fires.

[-] TheRoarer@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

They were premade responses too. He accidentally full copy and pasted one.

[-] M_g@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Lmao of course he did, what a clown.

[-] hamburglar26@wilbo.tech 4 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it was a fantastic dumpster fire. I can't decide if he fared better than Steven Seagal or not.

[-] coldredlight@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

It's definitely up there as one of the absolute worst AMAs of all time.

[-] frogman@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

that's a plot twist i'd pay to see

[-] withersailor@aussie.zone 17 points 1 year ago

That article also is very pro Reddit.

It just accepts his claims without providing the Apollo app developers evidence that he's lying.

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