The pricing Reddit is charging is obscene and would mean that Apollo would be forced to pay $20 million per year to keep the app running. Other popular third-party apps would have to pay similarly outrageous costs. It’s clearly a blatant attempt to run them off Reddit so the site can force users to use its first-party app instead.

I wish all articles covering the debacle but it at clearly as this.

My feelings exactly. As far as I’m concerned, I’m happy to use Lemmy for scrolling from hereonin but I’ll visit archived info on Reddit, once the blackout is over.

My word, I figured it had to be a coincidence. I hope some of the fat-cat stakeholders are starting to catch wind and sweat at all this MSM coverage.

Wow, I legit never knew. Thanks for the link, that’s really interesting.

I never knew any component of Reddit was ever open-source? But yeah, that AMA was so bleak. I’m enjoying Lemmy a lot right now, so maybe I can do without Reddit.

It’s just that Reddit has been like my one cultural constant in the last decade. I have ADHD, so I tend to go through phases of things but the sheer diversity of Reddit and all the years of history of the site meant that it’s been a really big part of my life. I know that’s probably similar for a lot of other folks.

My reddit account never posted a lot but out of principle I am planning on deleting my account, if they do reverse the changes before the 30th.

Bold of you to assume that a certain type of ‘gamer’ sees stories being more diverse as a positive 😩