Negotiations aren’t based on pretty words; they’re based on leverage (BATNA). If both parties saw a win-win on API costs which can sustain 3PAs, we wouldn’t be

Negotiations aren’t based on pretty words; they’re based on leverage (BATNA). If both parties saw a win-win on API costs which can sustain 3PAs, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Once negotiation goes “hardball”, demonstrating leverage through something like a strike is part of the negotiation process. “It only encourages other developers to build a following that they attempt to leverage against Reddit.” This is a feature, not a bug. While Reddit has a substantial moat of momentum and content, the longer a strike goes on, the more users are incentivized to defect to Reddit clones (temporarily at first, but potentially the “new normal” as time goes on), and of course the apps can add support for these alternatives.