Reddit sells API calls to companies like Apollo. Apollo sells an app based on that API, and users pay a couple of bucks to Apollo for it. They use the app to read their fave subreddits. Reddit announce they’re hiking up the price of the API calls. Reddit limits the API calls so they can’t access porn/nsfw. Now entire reddit is on strike over this. Who the hell cares? Most people have inflation-related RL price hikes to worry about, of necessities like groceries and housing and such. I’m not gonna protest over some app I use being unable to access porn. Reddit users need to grow up. #reddit
“Who the hell cares?” *Makes a post on Blind caring*
What do the reddit employees think about the whole situation?
It’ll blow over, this isn’t the first protest we’ve had. I’m more concerned about our job security. Already let go of 10% of our work force throughout the entire year. More will come, since we are still over staffed
You’re absolutely right and it makes 0 sense. The idea is we shut down Reddit because some asshat with a paid iOS app is mad he can’t give someone else’s stuff away for free. Fkng dumb as hell. Rest is cope about “Reddit is mean because they suggested optimizing api calls :(“
He's not mad. It's just that him along with most of the other major 3rd party apps are shutting down if the pricing holds, and the official reddit app is almost unusable.
The pricing isn’t even bad. guess how much it will cost him a month per user 3 fucking $! This guy is a clown and acting like a sociopath. And man, the last time you could just be an antisocial nerd shilling an app for $3/month off Apple’s payment infrastructure was a loooooong time ago. They’re all being incredibly, bizarrely, whiny. This is a minor SaaS challenge at best and they chose to shut down their income and try and shut down Reddit. E m b a r r a s i n g
It’s about sending a message that as a community, they support each other. Unlike blind where everyone just runs after money
lol wut
You don’t support anyone in the community - you support company A over company B in a business dispute over pricing
I’m not really following this whole situation but from what I’ve gleaned it doesn’t seem unreasonable for Reddit to charge these 3p developers who are monetizing Reddit’s data. Also I’ve tried using the Apollo app and it sucked ass compared to the official Reddit app. I’ve been using Reddit app without issue for the last 5+ years. This seems like a bunch of dumbass mods who somehow got bamboozled into supporting these 3p developers without realizing they’re getting played. Then again most mods are power hungry misfits who get most of their life meaning from being mods, and they saw this as a chance to elevate their importance and flex their power to the world. Although I did read about how mods are also upset because they rely on 3p solutions to keep spam under control, so maybe that is actually a legitimate use case. I don’t care though. Reddit could shut down and my quality of life would probably actually improve.
I think API calls cost compute, energy, bandwidth - it’s reasonable for companies to demand appropriate payment for them. I don’t know if it’s price jacking or not, but I just think it’s an unimportant issue compared to other matters. Apollo is not a nonprofit. Users siding with them should be aware of that. About spam and moderation. Reddit’s moderation is highly centralised. A very small group of supermods manage most of the top subreddits, it was published a few years ago (a few of them are also renowned for their participation in weird kink communities, like furries and adult diapers. Creeps if you ask me. Look up Amy Challenor). Since there are few mods, there’s more spam per mod to filter. Heavy use of automated moderation wouldn’t be required if Reddit’s structure didn’t put so much power in the hands of few. From an end user’s perspective - their automation sucks anyway and often filters my legit comments/posts.
+1 to improve quality of life if reddit shuts down btw
The price is fucking wild though, and mods are responsible for most of the quality of community, which is what reddit is built on. They're unpaid volunteers so if they want to shut things down cause their life gets happier good for them.Blind really loves simping for corporations
If you simp for Apollo over Reddit, then you’re still simping for a corporation. This is a business dispute between two private companies.
Reddit run on millions of hours of unpaid volunteer mods. Don’t piss them off.
92 of the top 500 subreddits are controlled by the same people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23173018 This protest is likely a display of their power. If reddit had a less centralised structure, then maybe it wouldn’t be so difficult to moderate.
There’s also a lot of dodgy stuff happening within this group of powerful mods. I still remember when these mods used to wait till sub owners went to sleep, posted underage porn on their subs, then reported the sub to have it shut down/reclaimed. I’d be happy if this group gets out and makes room for better community leaders than Bardfinn and Amy Challenor.
Reddit has to make money too guys
There are ways to do that without pissing off the user base that built them.
Like what?
Nah you gotta support it, just on principle. Plus, it’s fun. Fuck Reddit
The protests will do nothing. However, Reddit would not have become as successful as it did without third party apps, especially for mobile. As Louis Rossman put it, the new API cost is "fuck you pricing" intended to kill the apps, not just recoup costs.
Damn you sound like you care, you went on an entire rant over it. Also TC or blackout forever
Legit don't think I've seen anyone who cares MORE about this than the OP 😂