I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
This. Reddit still exists and is still siphoning value off its content for all it’s worth, but you can’t browse through any old discussion without finding a handful of deleted comments and comments edited to random jibberish. The scars of the APIcalypse still exist.
Newer discussions are too vapid and bot-riddled, and many older discussions are too pockmarked with redactions to be useful.
seems fine :)