“fuck u/spez” means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn’t familiar with Reddit, it’s just noise.

“FIRE STEVE HUFFMAN” is a clear, actionable statement that has a clear target and goal and actually has meaning to people who don’t know what Reddit is (like say, a potential shareholder or investor)

Idk where to put this since r/savethirdpartyapps got banned so post this wherever will get noise if you agree

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    Reddit’s API never had a fee, it was always free. Reddit was built in an era where there wasn’t really much difference between an API and the HTML view you see, they both had the same backend code, with minor differences on the presentation layer.

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      RiF had some kind of agreement where they were paying Reddit actual money until shortly after Huffman became CEO. I don’t think they were “paying for API access”, but they were a third party app that generated revenue for Reddit until Huffman came along.

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      This is false, look it up. The API had a fee until 2016.

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        I assure you it was free, as I worked there in 2010-2011, and built many bots and tools using said api thereafter. I never paid a cent, and none of the people using my bots did either