Let’s see Paul Allen’s turntable!

I’ll start believing in Reddit’s commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don’t like their decisions.

Until then, it’s just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.

That meme is 11 years old now.

Shocking.

It’s pretty crazy how u/spez seems to focus on some random third party app developers making money off of Reddit.

He tries to couch this in language about AI and the cost of maintaining an API and that the API was never meant to support 3PAs, but then loops back to what sounds like insane hatred and envy of third party developers.

And then, in the same interview, he points out how unpaid moderators who do all the work and make Reddit all the money have too much power.

It’s lunacy.

Yeah, we don’t know yet. On the one hand, it’s still the early days of (some) people leaving Reddit - and who knows if they won’t go back.

On the other hand, the API payment structure and the shutdown of 3PAs hasn’t even happened yet. Even people who are completely oblivious to the situation but who are using a 3PA will have to decide if they’ll be able to deal with the shitty official app, if they’ll just stop browsing Reddit on mobile, or if they’re willing to take a look at alternatives.

See, I really don’t need all those people to leave Reddit and appear over here.

I’m fine if Reddit keeps being what Reddit has become over the years, and all the angry, toxic, trolling, shit posting people stay over there as well.

I’m fine with a much smaller, much friendlier community.

A few months ago, the message was also “Reddit is not going to start charging for API access.”

I’m not saying old.reddit.com is going away in the very near future, but I also wouldn’t put too much trust into whatever spez says on any given day.

but the problem is these people want it to be done by the service/devs/whatever.

I’ll give people the benefit of the doubt. Coming from a centralized service means people are used to things working in a certain way, and they may just not have considered all the advantages of not being forced into a single, centralized service.

Yeah, same boat here.

I absolutely love how Home Assistant can handle virtually any device or integration you throw at it, but for the time being, I’m keeping all my logic in webCoRE on Hubitat.