I'm sure we have our fair share of reddit mods here on HN, so apologies for rehashing what I'm sure plenty already know. But I've been chatting a lot with other

I'm sure we have our fair share of reddit mods here on HN, so apologies for rehashing what I'm sure plenty already know. But I've been chatting a lot with other mods on discord as we get this effort organized, and the general consensus is "reddit has definitely been very generous with their API up to this point and it's totally reasonable of them to charge now, but the price is wildly out of line with everyone else." I say this because the reddit admins keeps trying to hyper focus on things like "Apollo is inefficient" (it is) or "bots will still work" and other secondary concerns in an effort to avoid the very simple issue: their cost is exhorbitant and no amount of vague "we will adjust based on usage" and "non-commercial tools will be fine" comments are going to assuage our fears. A quick story: a mod from /r/blind told us all about how heavily they depend on 3rd party tools just to be able to do basic moderation. Despite reddit having an app for seven years they still do not even remotely adequately cover the needs of the visually impaired/blind/etc. The mod said several members who are completely VI will have to step down under the new changes because the app is unusable for them in its current state. Why should they trust reddit will suddenly fix it if they've largely ignored their tickets for 7 years? Why should any of us believe any of their vague promises when this has occurred over and over again? Mods/users get angry, reddit says "we hear you," and everyone calms down. They're panicking at this point because frankly they know we're too cynical/skeptical for their "trust us" spiel and we actually care about this. I know I am probably coming off as over-dramatic here - reddit is not the center of the universe - but this stuff does matter in my opinion. And I am for one am glad to be participating in this blackout.