if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that’ll come in the morning if so)
if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that’ll come in the morning if so)
There are three possibilities.
Personally I think the first one is the most likely. It seems naive and bound for failure. But its also the least conspiracy theory and doesn’t assume malice
Not sure how you get a cause of action for someone else’s business decisions messing with your business, as a general rule. How would that work? I’m legitimately curious.
Oh man I just answered someone else asking about that as well. Basically my stance is that the people who think that are wrong, but that the argument would need to be grounded on the concept that Reddit’s actions were not in line with their agreements. I don’t think anyone would (or should) take this up as I think it’s a very weak argument and Reddit has more legal power than a third party developer possibly could.
As I said in my comment, I think that the most likely is just this developer thinks they can maybe make this work
Is Reddit as a business responsible for providing a livelihood for a third party developer? What would they be suing over? On what grounds?
It would not be on the grounds that Reddit is responsible for providing livelihood, but instead that Reddit failed to live up to their promises and agreements. Personally, I think that’s the least likely of the three as there’s almost no way a third party app developer has the lawyers to take on Reddit’s legal team, and it sounds like a really weak case. It’s jsut something I’ve seen people theorizing so I wanted to put it into the world. As I said, I think this is just as simple as the developer thinks they can make this work