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You hit the nail in the head. I suspect that the mod protest is not about the stupid surcharges on third party API users, but a combination of:
My reason for taking part is the fact that the cheap fuck, spez, wants to sell our content, place ads on seeing the content, mine tracking data to sell more ads, but only let us do it on the app that's the most invasive, least developed, buggiest possible heap of shit that's available for reddit.
He does all of that while crowing about reddit's corpus of data, wanting to lock nsfw content to the official dumpster fire of an app so he can be a cyberpimp, and then repeatedly refusing to admit that he does nothing useful for the company that the mods and users actually keep going.
Fuck spez.
The api pricing is just the head of the zit. He's the pus inside.
Agreed. Unfortunately on my local sub (just a bit over 250k users) the mods are the ones trying to push for continued protest through malicious compliance. Most users are completely clueless and find the protest cringe and useless. I've gone back twice since the blackout, only to voice my opinions and it was not well received. A lot of people just don't see a problem with having the platform getting revenue off their own content. I don't think I'll ever go back to Reddit and will most likely delete my account after 12 years.