Empricorn
They instituted OSFA pricing, when prior it was free.
Even that, while technically true doesn’t paint the full picture. Let me try:
They cut off the API to everyone: 3rd-party apps, disabled users, mods who use tools to moderate (that don’t exist on Reddit). Then, they priced access to the that API so high that basically no 3rd-party could afford it.
This is cutting off the API to practically everyone (in practice, if not in action) ahead of their planned IPO. And because they want to charge for the LLM AI’s that use Reddit content for training…
Counter-point: Chrome brought multiple computers/laptops to a standstill, but Firefox doesn’t. I used Chrome for years and just put up with it… But the lagging/slowness literally stopped when I switched. So while I’m sure you’re right in theory, something about Google’s implementation sucked on all the computers I used it on…
So I can’t even post about the abuse going on here, wow…
“Yet I’ll stick around, take the abuse, and gargle u/Spez’s balls. 🤷♂️”
That’s a good point. My TL;DR comment was already getting long but their communication throughout this entire fiasco has been atrocious. And they only gave these 3rd-party app developers about a month of notice that their livelihood was about to be put in jeopardy. And they lied to them about the changes immediately prior! And then they lied about the conversation with the Apollo developer and his reason!! And…
Look, just don’t use Reddit, okay people…?
This is the epitome of “conservatives” today: unhappy, vengeful, trying to destroy things for other people, and only focused on nonsense culture-war stuff.
It’s really been slow lately. Not blaming them, no one expected Reddit to implode and introduce a higher influx of users! But if possible, we should all sign up and browse from less overwhelmed servers; you still get all the same content!
