Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW
Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW
I looooove watching reddit burn. Their CEO is so fucking incompetent but honestly, that's part for the course. Most CEOs are fucking morons fueled by nepotism.
Not just incompetent, but also just plain mean.
After making an incompetent decision (super high api costs) he didn’t reassess the situation, he just started lashing out.First at the app devs, then at the mods, now at the users.
The AMA was the real line in the sand where he 'answered' about 6 questions but mainly took the opportunity to slag off the Apollo Dev.
That was where it was clear he had no interest in explaining the changes, talking people round but this was just his decision now please fuck off.
I get the feeling he thinks he's showing people he's a tough man making tough decisions and coming out of this looking strong though...
Same here, I must admit that I love posts like this. Let it burn
Yeah, I won't deny that even before joining here I'd be searching for the latest Reddit installment in the news... It's the rubbernecker in all of us
We're at the 'find out' stage here aren't we
The funniest thing is that reddit is so shitty that they created all this caos and didn't even meet the deadline!! 3rd party apps are still working because they fail to enforce the changes! aka they were bluffing! Reddit is a shit show omg
Third party apps that are still working are most likely going to get hit with a bill on August 1st they were not prepared for. Reddit knows which applications are using the API keys so they know where to send the bill. But the changes took effect on July 1st. The apps that shut down before the first did so because the developer killed their API key so they wouldn't occur any charges.
/c/maliciouscompliance?
Brilliant work by that team! Either reddit has to violate its own rules (which sadly they can, by deleting all NSFW content and removing the flag), or let the mods go.
And if they let the mods go, other giant subs can do the same thing in order to safely go NSFW.
deleting all NSFW
Which means they'll have to moderate, i.e. pay for moderators :)
Which should have been the way since the beginning honestly.
It looks like the current plan is just to archive subreddits, turn off comments, and leave them public until the IPO.
Unless you happen to be r/programming of course and someone noticed the ChatGPT bots that seem to consistently be posting statements supportive of the admins. Then we got to force the subreddit to private immediately.
Unrelated segue, did you know that Sam Altman, current CEO of OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, was a long time reddit board member, and despite claims that he left last year, is still listed as being on the board of reddit?
Also, anyone else find it weird that in a lot of the threads talking about the protests on reddit... While the most upvoted comments usually favor the admins, if you look at the sheer number of comments speaking out on a lot of major threads and don't worry about the upvote/downvote ratio, the number of comments in favor of the protests near completely dwarfs the number of comments in favor of the admins. Just another interesting data point.
It's almost like there was a way for someone who owned the website to manipulate things in their favor and then call in a favor from someone with an interest in the company to help them do a very poor job of making it seem like it was all justified by the community.
Proud of the power mods / power subs for sticking to this fight.