The /r/videos mods are going all out and someone made this lovely graphic to explain why subs are going dark next week.
While I’d love to have my users on Lemmy, I also hope that this actually does something for Reddit and they reverse course on their planed changes.
Probably, but it’ll be the power users, mods and regular contributors who are most likely to use the apps that need the API to operate correctly.
This, exactly this, 100% this. It’s the 80-20 rule, except in Reddit’s case it’s probably even more extreme because of bots. Almost all of the quality content on Reddit comes from a very small portion of Reddit’s users, and it’s very likely that most of those users are using third party apps.
I think Reddit made a calculated decision here - and I also think they are terrible at math.
Yes, it’s worse for Reddit
Yep. It’s not necessarily the number of users being affected, it’s which users.