A TL;DR:
- Laying out context and background info (API prices)
- Exposing maths on API access prices, in comparison with Imgur ones, to show that they are unreasonable.
- Concluding that Reddit is using the huge prices to intentionally kill third party apps*.
- Talking about the poor quality of the official app.
- How the move effectively deplatforms blind people, followed by a Torvalds style “fuck you, Reddit”.
Cat tax at 7:20- Devil’s lawyer point: the fact that we cannot see Reddit’s finances, as it is not a public company.
- The “fever dream” of the 2010s, and how many companies of those times were never profitable, as they were focusing on [my own words] on the value instead of the profit [/my own words]
- Mentions on how even the site originally hosting the video [Youtube - NB, the link is from Odysee] lost money in those times, as well as Twitter did, implying that Reddit is probably in the same bag.
- Talking about transparency - i.e. that if Reddit is bleeding money, it should say it, so the users do not assume the worst. That concludes the devil’s lawyer point, as he shows that even if it was a necessary action from Reddit’s side of the thing (is it?), it’s still scummy as fuck.
- On users losing trust on Reddit and saying “we’re leaving”. Ipsis litteris “the community will remember what you did, and screwing over vast swaths of disabled people is a really, really great way to look like the type of piece of shit that nobody wants to give money or revenue to, ever again.”
- Telling Reddit to either reconsider the decision or at the very least give it a damn good reason, otherwise users will outright refuse to use Reddit or do it with the most restricted ad blocking possible.
*personal note: Rossmann didn’t mention it, but I will. Reddit is lying that it doesn’t want to kill third party apps, and the lie itself makes everything worse.
The community will remember what you did
How many times has Reddit done something that pissed off the Community and they still came back.
It isn’t just about leaving; even the ones who don’t leave will make sure to contribute the least possible with Reddit. For example someone might say “I’m still using Reddit because I can’t find this content elsewhere, but I’m not modding shit, and I’m not posting shit, fuck them.” Or encourage ad block usage as a way to hurt Reddit revenue.
Also, “not leaving” is not the same as “forgetting about it”. If you’re in charge of a company, your customers/users can tolerate a tiny bit of abuse, as long as your company is still useful for them. However that doesn’t mean that they forgot about it; and if you screw up too often or too big, all those instances of abuse will pile up, and people will take older instances of abuse into account when deciding if/when they should play along your company.
