Given Apollo made WWDC in a few places including in Vision Pro, perhaps someone at Apple might consider just acquiring Apollo and pay the yearly API fees to Reddit.
Over time Apple could then perhaps make the Reddit clone.
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#512Reddit CEO will have AMA tomorrow https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/144ho2x/join_our_ce...
I'm sure that will go over just swimmingly...
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And exactly what are they losing from business perspective? Few users that generate only costs?
Most of the content on reddit is created by power users who are more likely to use 3rd party tools. Most people who use the official app only consume content.
Reddit was caught using AI to produce artificial content; so I guess that's what will happen.
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Consider reading TFA. The dev in question was actively lied to by reddit about the availability of the API, and DID have a plan for this scenario, just not one that could be executed in the unreasonably short time frame of the API changes.
That's one side of the story and unless an enforceable contract exists, it's completely meaningless what reddit supposedly said.
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It is really astounding to see the CEO of Reddit being caught in a blatant lie denigrating a third party developer whose work has done a lot for the platform and who has the ear of a reasonably sized and loud portion of the community. I really hadn’t expected that. Corporate doublespeak is one thing, and management decisions aren’t necessarily always in the interest of their users - but such an egregious act is reall…
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> Yet another thing is that two-day boycotts … don’t … work. It’s “we’re going out of town for a weekend”, except at scale. It just shows Reddit that some moderation teams will participate in a power-flex protest that is a result of some folks angry that Reddit is no longer their golden goose, no longer laying golden eggs for them.
My only disagreement is to say that some subs will be going dark permanently, which does work. Otherwise, carry on, and thank you for your service to the community.
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#516It really feels as though all of the API pricing issues across the industry are signaling a clear ending to the rosey eyed 2nd tech boom that began with the invention of smart phones and social media.
I remember when my software career started in earnest back in 2011. There was a lot of positive energy in the air. A whole generation of people was discovering the joys of engineering and sharing their efforts and creativity through various forms of open access.
Now, it feels like that's all gone. The spirit of generosity and altruism in the tech industry is much diminished. It seems we have an odd combination of C-suite mental illness and activist investors to thank for that.
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#517I just don’t see Reddit’s response here other than “yes, turns out we are the bad guys who have been continually lying and manipulating the situation for our benefit”. I wonder if they’ll see employees quit over this. How do you trust your employer after this? I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this. Just absolutely stunning turn of events, massive kudos to Christian for recor…
>I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this.
Subreddits are run by volunteer moderators and are entirely at the whim of reddit. If any substantial subreddit tried to shut down or go dark permanently reddit would just remove the moderators responsible.
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#518Reddit is a huge tree that casts lots of shade across the forest floor. It may or may not topple completely, but its pretty clear that in the next month at least many large branches are going to fall, opening up the canopy for new seedlings to grow.
Maybe we'll finally get some reddit competitors that aren't dominated by alt right blowhards.
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#519I just don’t see Reddit’s response here other than “yes, turns out we are the bad guys who have been continually lying and manipulating the situation for our benefit”. I wonder if they’ll see employees quit over this. How do you trust your employer after this? I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this. Just absolutely stunning turn of events, massive kudos to Christian for recor…
>#1 Reddit Android app "Reddit is Fun" Guess no more bathroom reddit for me. 4chan still works.
An appropriate place to read 4chan, I suppose.
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#520One thing which is unclear to me and I would really appreciate some perspective: do you think they designed the new API pricing with intention to have developers actually using/paying it or was it just a PR way to say "we are closing the API for 3rd party devs"?