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submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[-] nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

It isn’t even about the API drive out anymore of why I’m not going back to Reddit. It’s the CEO though and though

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Because the goal was never to get some kind of fair price for using the API. That's why they priced it at "Fuck You."

Ultimately what they want is for people to stop using 3rd party apps entirely because 3rd party apps either don't show advertisements, or they show advertisements that give ad revenue to the developer.

They want everyone using their app because the valuation of tech companies directly correlates to the number of eyeballs they can serve ads to. Old.reddit will be next, and I bet they'll try to start blocking ad blockers after that.

[-] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The only thing stopping 3rd party apps from showing reddits adds though was reddit never including them into the api. They actually HAD an agreememt with the rif author to take a cut of rif's ad revenue but as soon as spez took over as ceo he quietly axed that.

Investors wanted to see "app growth" for multiple quarters not underatanding that the app isn't what maked reddit, and so ~~spez~~ spaz is doing what he is in a desperate and stupid attempt to claw up some numbers so he can cash out when the ipo hits.

Reddit app use DID see some grown during the pandemic, but can't sustain that because its app is shit. They haven't improved it ever. It began as a 3rd party app and they purchased it from the original dev. The only changes were to add that pathic coin shop and some sticker/avatar crap to sell you.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah I was trying to convey this feeling to my wife the other night. It's not just that I won't be able to use my favorite app (rif) anymore, it's that the CEO has been lying and gaslighting about what they've said. In that AMA thread where he said they want to work with devs who want to work with them and like three devs were like "hey we're fine with paying but you haven't answered our attempts to contact you" (not to even mention Apollo's Dev's bombshell recordings lol) really shows they don't give a shit.

I feel like they want that AI money and are furious all these models scraped their content. I get it but it's not even their content. Regardless of how you feel about artists being mad about their art being used to train models I think we can all agree that a site that merely hosts content being mad that the content was used is laughable.

[-] NOPper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

And the NY Times article that among other silly things just forgot to mention Aaron Swartz as a primary founder of the site, who would be right there at the gates telling us all to fight this bullshit. Guarantee spez specifically told them not to mention him as the optics here would be completely terrible.

Reddit used to have values, but it's been turned on its head.

[-] neuntoeter@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

thoroughly agree that the api stuff is just one symptom of a broader underlying issue

[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. I was waiting it out to see how it would pan out, but after spez's AMA I dropped Reddit immediately. That was before I even found Lemmy as a replacement. Now that I'm here I'm not missing Reddit in the slightest.

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