Gregory's Server@christianselig We’ll make our own Reddit…?
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 @Sonikku If they believed the rate was justified they’d sell reddit accounts with API access and collect the money directly. See, for example, the way banks were eager to charge ATM fees directly to consumers. The fact that it’s asked of the app providers is a tip that they are less interested in collecting it than driving users to where they collect all the telemetry.  Reddit is beginning to show ads and is pushing for an algorithmic timeline. If you are using the website, there is now green highlighted subs being inserted, and articles are shown "because you previously looked at this sub". This will not work on mobile with 3rd party applications, so this is mostly a move to deprecate them without deprecating them. It is the enshittification playbook. @SallyStrange @isotopp @Sonikku Anyone who is even /able/ to use #Reddit, who have not been #shadowBanned or booted, are ineffective activists & likely pushovers anyway. So I suspect Reddit is reading their crowd right… they can get away w/it.  @Sonikku I don't think they expect anyone to be willing to pay that kind of money for access to the API. Rather, it looks to me like getting rid of 3rd party Apps so that they can pick and choose the posts you see… |
But yes that is absolutely absurd.
Were they really expecting any of the third party clients to be able to afford this?
Or was this just a convenient backdoor to killing off said apps under the guise of “well we offered them a way forward but for $ome reason they declined”.