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 […]
  • Radicalized@lemmy.oneEnglish
    26·
    2 years ago

    I’m so excited to see Huffman burn his company to the ground. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted someone to fail as much as him.

    • GayBees@kbin.social
      13·
      2 years ago

      I just hope there is any fallout from this. I really hope start mass migrating off reddit, and people don’t begrudgingly return a couple days after all of this dies down

        • Ultivek@kbin.social
          4·
          2 years ago

          fuck reddit man My account was created the same time as Apollo, and now we’re leaving it together

      • beeboopbeep@kbin.social
        9·
        2 years ago

        I am personally leaving, friends/family also leaving. And Im blocking it on my network, and we got a “lets do it” to block it on our corporate network (1900+ employees). But everyone said “likely leaving”. Kbin maybe about to get the hug of death! May launch a selfhosters one! Lets do this

        • crank@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          Wow blocking on work network not to stop wasting time but because of frustration over api is rly funny

      • RoboRay@kbin.social
        9·
        2 years ago

        Rexxit seems to be picking up speed.

        Seeing a lot more posts about deleting comment history.

      • lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
        9·
        2 years ago

        I won’t be going back (reddit user since the digg v4 fiasco)

        I actually prefer the smaller communities, so lemmy is a breath of fresh air

        • Reeek@beehaw.org
          9·
          2 years ago

          Same just needs a few more people and a few more niche communities and we’re set.

      • nude@kbin.social
        7·
        2 years ago

        I very much doubt there will be.
        They have crunched the numbers, they know they can weather this storm.

        At the end of the day there will still be natural growth of reddit via people hearing about it and just grabbing the official apps from stores. A lot of techy types will leave, but they haven’t been the driving force behind reddit for a long time.

        Reddit will just start heading more towards influencer style content and less of the content that originally built the platform.

        My guess is that influencer style content is more profitable and less hazardous for them to host anyway.

      • DBT@kbin.social
        5·
        2 years ago

        I created my account here because of this. Was on Reddit for over ten years. Won’t be using Reddit after June 30th. Trying to figure out what to do with the (smaller, but over 150k subs) subs I moderate now then I’m out.

        A ‘small’ portion of the Reddit community used Apollo & RIF (and other third party apps), but those were the power users and mods.

        There will for sure be some fallout.