It seems ill conceived to discuss with Reddit at this point in time. It is a misunderstanding of motives that Reddit executives work in favor of Reddit. The end

It seems ill conceived to discuss with Reddit at this point in time. It is a misunderstanding of motives that Reddit executives work in favor of Reddit. The end goal of this non profitable relationship of devs with Reddit is to bait and switch the allegiance of the userbase right before Reddot"s large IPO cash out. Moving users towards the main site and app, firing a few people, claiming to do a cleanup is just somethimg that would sound good and look good in the balooned financial projection numbers. Long term growth or even sustainability is irrelevant right before the IPO so app and devs need to understand the motives behind those actions. Devs may stop developing, users may leave, mods can stop modding, subreddits can go dark as long as the effect of those events does not have time appear in the IPO documents. Yes ofcourse Reddit execs could allow nswf, yes ofcourse Reddit execs know that the reddit app sucks, yes ofcourse Reddit execs knows the API is essential for moderator apps, yes ofcourse Reddit execs know they add work or outright screw free labor moderators, yes ofcourse Reddit could use the external apps to deliver reddit ads and get some profit. But that would make them lose control of the IPO future profitability narrative, which appears to be as a "fake it to see if we make it" narrative