Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 12, 2023

#Reddit kills third-party apps by hiking API fees to girnomous levels.

*Me not realising that there were even third-party apps*

So I'm not sure that the narrative that Reddit will destroy its business by doing this is true, cos it doesn't affect users like me, which I suspect, is a majority of its users.

However, as a developer, I will think twice about developing anything for a for-profit platform, seeing what happened with #Twitter etc. It is ... not great that platforms are ..1/2

Show threadJamie

@liztai some of their third party apps make the site usable for blind people, and some lgbt subs have said Reddit's built in moderator tools are so inadequate, that without third party scripts, spammers and hateful trolls would make their subs unusable and unmanageable.

It's a large part of why over half of all subs are joining in the shutdown.

Jun 12, 2023 at 2:53amWeb
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Jun 12, 2023
@jamiestl Now I get it, thank you :) It sucks! A lot of people depend on this. Where are they going to?
Show threadJamieJun 12, 2023

@liztai that I don't know.

Some here have been promoting open source/decentralized alternatives like Lemmy and Kbin. Reddit banned a sub for Kbin for "spam", but real reason is obvious there.