Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party […]
Since u/spez seems to want to continue down this road and bar people of experiencing reddit the way they want, I decided to delete all of my post and comment history within my account there.
It’s obvious that those of us that want to continue to use 3rd party apps are considered dead weight in his eyes, so I decided that anything and everything I posted is likely of no value to Reddit.
I’m imagining every Redditor editing all of their comments to this, and Reddit slowly becoming nothing but “fuck u/spez” as it fades away. Like the last r/place when everything was taken over pixel by pixel with white squares. Kind of bittersweet.
It’s us the users who create & place value within that platform. In subjects of our interests. Reddit company is adamant with their decision with limiting our precense alone.
Make sense that people have started migrating into other places/ services such as this one.
Since u/spez seems to want to continue down this road and bar people of experiencing reddit the way they want, I decided to delete all of my post and comment history within my account there.
It’s obvious that those of us that want to continue to use 3rd party apps are considered dead weight in his eyes, so I decided that anything and everything I posted is likely of no value to Reddit.
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No problem!
If that doesn’t work:
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I’ll replace all of my content for “fuck u/spez” once I get it backed up.
I’m imagining every Redditor editing all of their comments to this, and Reddit slowly becoming nothing but “fuck u/spez” as it fades away. Like the last r/place when everything was taken over pixel by pixel with white squares. Kind of bittersweet.
It’s us the users who create & place value within that platform. In subjects of our interests. Reddit company is adamant with their decision with limiting our precense alone.
Make sense that people have started migrating into other places/ services such as this one.
Sadly he doesn’t care. He’s just keeping his eyes on the horizon awaiting all that ipo money so he can cash out.