I love how this statement is dripping with condescension for the people who built the service he’s currently driving into the ground - all while thinking of himself as some kind of super genius.

People always call this a market failure while willfully ignoring that whenever markets are left unchecked, this is the inevitable outcome.

Also forced them into arbitration, then refused to arbitrate the dispute.

Let’s see Paul Allen’s turntable!

<crickets>

Though if I had to guess, it’s going to be stuff like “build a shit ton of nuclear power plants, use e fuels for cars, use green hydrogen, develop fusion power, and generally do all the things that allow us to believe that we have to change absolutely nothing in our lives.”

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.

I think the best case scenario for a place like this one here is of people stop thinking about Reddit at all.

It’s kind of breaking up after a long relationship: as long as you’re still thinking about what your ex is doing right now, you’re not over the relationship.

I think this place will find its groove once people will have stopped comparing features, communities, apps, etc. to how things worked or looked like on Reddit, and once people will have completely stopped caring about whatever may or may not be going on over at Reddit.

Yeah. Unless you already have a negotiation framework in place, it’s probably a bad idea to announce how long you want to go on strike at the outset of a strike.

It’s just signalling to the other side how long they have to wait you out.

What is the “finally” scene from TNG?

Yeah, we’re not in disagreement here.

Otherwise why would businesses pay to host interesting content for free?

See, I think that’s the problem.

Wikipedia is one of the all-time great projects on the internet, and it keeps chugging along all without forcing miserable ads on its users or charging them a subscription fee or selling their data to the highest bidder.

And their donation drives are perfectly fine, and I’m perfectly willing to give them some money every now and then as long as they’re asking for what is needed to keep the site up and running.

Maybe not everything should be run as a for-profit business, with an overriding goal of monetizing clicks and maximizing profits?

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.

Worth noting that for the 11 years, Reddit didn’t host any images.

It’s hard to say why Reddit thought it was necessary to host their own images.

It’s not so much that iOS is confusing.

It’s more that you have to learn which things are just completely impossible to do on iOS for the single reason that Apple doesn’t want users to do those things.

On Android, things that should be possible from a technical point of view are generally possible. Might take a while to figure things out, but generally, things are achievable.

On iOS, there’s either a fairly straightforward way to do things, or there’s not even a point in trying, because Apple has locked that shit down to the point where you’ll just waste days trying to find a way, only to give up on the end.

I’ve got endless examples, from trying to move files/documents/music on, to, or from an iOS device in a non-Apple-approved way to sending media over non-Apple-approved channels to something as simple as syncing calendars in a way that Apple doesn’t like.

On Android, all of these things can be achieved in a couple of minutes.

I used to bother with jailbreaking and all that jazz - but ultimately, to me, owning a shiny Apple device isn’t worth having to deal with all the randomly imposed limitations.

I think it’s also a chicken-or-egg question:

Apple users are more willing to pay for apps. So if you’re a dev and you want to release a paid app, iOS is the platform of choice. So more devs release paid apps on iOS, so iOS becomes the platform with more paid apps. So users are more used to pay for apps. So paying for apps is normalized, so Apple users are more willing to pay for apps.

Etc. etc. etc.

I hear you. Yes, not a fan of people being hostile just because something is different.

I’m just hoping that people who enjoy this experience will stay and that more people who also like this experience will join, and that people who want everything to be exactly like Reddit will return to Reddit or to some Reddit-like platform that works exactly like Reddit.