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For me it isn't just about API access, its the steadily accelerating march of enshittification across the whole site. Straw, meet camel's back. Also, Reddit ma
by empyrrhicist 3y ago
For me it isn't just about API access, its the steadily accelerating march of enshittification across the whole site. Straw, meet camel's back.
Also, Reddit may be a private company, but their content is generated by their users and most of the labor is done by volunteer mods. If they want to leverage their network effect to extract money while ignoring those facts, they can get fucked. If they'd honestly been pursuing profitability in a non-idiotic and community respecting way (better ad targeting to subreddits? Build an integrated Patron alternative to support creators?) that would be one thing, but they've squandered their VC on nonsense like NFTs while making the whole site worse. I hope they implode, but expect they will just slowly decay.