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[–] killick@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehh, if Reddit is getting traffic from people going to see the trolling, then Reddit is still making money.

[–] jinno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if I view them using those third party apps they apparently need to charge an arm and a leg for.

[–] killick@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OK, true, but that's why they want to charge 3rd party apps.

[–] jinno@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

And I’m fine with them wanting to do that.

The protest was less about them wanting to charge a price, it’s that in a time frame of 6 months reportedly went from “the API won’t have changes anytime soon” to “we’re going to pivot to a paid API soon” to “we’re charging you advertiser rates per x million API requests, starting in a month, and you cannot supplement with your own ads”.

There was no time for these apps to adjust their pricing models. Most were on yearly subscription models or ad-driven. Having that large a pivot in the rules with no time to adapt the business model is just shitty partnership on Reddit’s part.