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Artistan ( artistan@lemmy.world )  to Technology · 2 years ago

Reddit CEO: We’re sticking with API change, despite subreddits going dark

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Reddit CEO: We’re sticking with API change, despite subreddits going dark

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Artistan ( artistan@lemmy.world )  to Technology · 2 years ago
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Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark
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'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.
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    Chatted with the moderator teams for the subs I am a part of. Two of them agreed we’ll go dark indefinitely, and we have joined in on that via ModCoord’s post.

    The largest with just under 1m users is still thinking about it, but I’m fighting for it.

    We need to push them where it hurts: active users for their ads to be used on.

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      Hopefully you don’t have any rogue mods. Apprently r/adviceanimals got the head mod replced by someone that seems to be more inline with the admins-reddit. (u/legweed -> u/CedarWolf)

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        We’re good teams, but I really hope not. A couple apathetic mods in each, but they seem content to follow the masses.

        Its a game of trying to not log in to reddit (because every click they don’t get is a win for us), and needing to in order to discuss all this nonsense.

        I just hope enough subs stay dark and get on board with the choice to go indefinitely.

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      If you really want to hit Reddit where it hurts: Shut down the subs forever, delete all posts and comments in said subs, put up a sticky post redirecting to Lemmy.

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        Deleting everything without archiving is a pretty destructive thing tho, atleast archiving the comments in some other website would be better

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