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Reddit CEO: We’re sticking with API change, despite subreddits going dark (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dang, after reading that, somehow I'm even more glad I overwrote all my past comments and posts with a protest message. You do not get to monetize my speech down to keyword targetting, reddit!

The way that's written is so blatantly and shamelessly "all these people volunteer and provide an amazing service for free! :D look how much money we can make off this free labor without giving any of those volunteers a single cent, and while sabotaging the service!"

If you want to auto-overwrite your comments and posts, or just delete them, check out Power Delete Suite or Redact by June 30th, before the API change breaks these tools.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Even if the fediverse didn't want to monetize on the userbase money are still needed to keep things running