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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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[-] Kialdadial@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago

It's going to take a bit to get used to, but I'm like Lemmy for the most part.

Haven't removed my reddit account, but I only have one sub that is still online at this point.

Really does feel like they killed a giant.

[-] Xylinna@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I am so hesitant to delete my Reddit account. I've had it for 12 years and there is a small bit of me that hopes they will fire u/spez and go back to the Reddit I have loved for so long. As long as he is around though I won't be going back and it really does feel as though they have killed a giant.

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[-] BitOneZero@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Community: snoocalypse

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

PCMag is pretty much covering the disastrous AMA spez hosted.

We'll see if they change their tune at all once the many subreddits go dark.

[-] Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Joke's on you u/Spez: we've got a new Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!

[-] Pavidus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This was the final straw for me at Reddit as well. Happy to be here now! Still trying to learn the ropes.

[-] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Already deleted my account. Feels good. The more I think about it, the more the fediverse feels like a saviour for the internet. It should be a no brainer that any single company that makes a social media will sooner or later try to do anything they can to profit 110% from their users.

Lemmy and other decentralized plattforms seems more like how the internet is supposed to be. No one owns any greater part of it. This is history in the making, the time we got the internet back!

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