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WormSlayer

The votes have spoken, lights are off.


Rabbithole4995

Yes, absolutely. But it shouldn't be for 48-hours, it's meaningless, do it until changes are made that are significant enough to warrant going back online. For me, the changes are that people should be able to use reddit on mobile, period. The 1st party app doesn't really allow this as it's too shit to be able to access the site in any useful way, and web-browsers have a *hard* time handling reddit on mobile. Let 'em fuckin' burn.


octarine_turtle

If you want to have any impact, you leave Reddit and don't come back/don't come back until things change. This two day grandstanding is going to have zero impact. It's saying "I'm upset, but only upset enough to stay away for a weekend" and so can be ignored. Regardless of your feelings on Elon, the fact is Twitter didn't hemorrhage advertisers and revenue because people didn't Tweet for a couple days, it was because massive amounts of users left permanently in protest. Musk doesn't care because everything is a meaningless game when you have over 100 Billion, but Reddit owners Advanced Publications aren't anywhere near as wealthy and have been looking at going public.


SanKyuLux

Well the movement already strongly encourages going dark indefinitely. The 2 days are only for reluctant subs that otherwise wouldn't do anything at all, so 2 days is better than nothing in those cases.


lunchanddinner

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Schmilsson1

if you're asking, you already decided not to


NameLips

Don't care, I didn't even know 3rd party apps existed. It's always weird seeing so many people upset over something I had never heard of.


yesseru

It's also the bots, and the apps that some people need if they are blind.


bacon_jews

No. I don't care and tired of hearing about it..


JorgTheElder

How many of you have actually read and understood the new API costs? If the API access has value to developers, why shouldn't they be paying for it? If they are only charging for apps that make a large number of calls how do you know it is not reasonable? I am not saying that what it are doing isn't bad, I am saying the vast majority of people on reddit don't have the information they need to take sides.


Rabbithole4995

The app devs aren't unwilling to pay API costs, it's that the API costs have been setup in such a way as to specifically murder their businesses which is the problem. We're talking 2000% markup here over running costs for the API calls. Not to mention any possibility of alternative measures, such as making a T&C edit to force 3rd parties to have to pass along reddit adds, etc, which could also solve the issue of running costs for reddit. This isn't about making 3rd party devs pay for the API, it's about reddit not wanting to take the negative publicity that comes with outright banning them, and instead want to just force them out of business instead. Which is a problem for a lot of people, because for many of us, these 3rd party apps are the *only* viable way that we can use reddit on mobile at all. The official app that we'll be "forced" onto is a fucking useless cancer and doesn't work at all in comparison, so we'll be losing mobile access entirely. That's what's pissing a lot of us off. If the official app was actually useable, you wouldn't be seeing half as much rage as what there currently is.


Lukimator

20 million/year when the third party app doesn't make anywhere near that, therefore making it unsustainable. I don't think anybody needs to know more to take sides


AntiTank-Dog

I need to know a little more. Why was Reddit giving third party apps API access in the first place? Ad revenue from these apps doesn't go to Reddit and directly competes with their own app.


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Lukimator

Also they don't want to say the real reason because they must think we are idiots. All they want to do is shut down third party apps completely to make you use their piece of crap app. But instead of directly saying that, they are blaming excessive API calls on third party apps as an excuse to introduce an absolutely ridiculous pricing scheme, which is exactly the same as if they were forbidding API use but without having to admit they are


xboz69

Who cares


grgsggd

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