Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW

Which should have been the way since the beginning honestly.

It looks like the current plan is just to archive subreddits, turn off comments, and leave them public until the IPO.

Unless you happen to be r/programming of course and someone noticed the ChatGPT bots that seem to consistently be posting statements supportive of the admins. Then we got to force the subreddit to private immediately.

Unrelated segue, did you know that Sam Altman, current CEO of OpenAI, responsible for ChatGPT, was a long time reddit board member, and despite claims that he left last year, is still listed as being on the board of reddit?

Also, anyone else find it weird that in a lot of the threads talking about the protests on reddit... While the most upvoted comments usually favor the admins, if you look at the sheer number of comments speaking out on a lot of major threads and don't worry about the upvote/downvote ratio, the number of comments in favor of the protests near completely dwarfs the number of comments in favor of the admins. Just another interesting data point.

It's almost like there was a way for someone who owned the website to manipulate things in their favor and then call in a favor from someone with an interest in the company to help them do a very poor job of making it seem like it was all justified by the community.

Third party apps that are still working are most likely going to get hit with a bill on August 1st they were not prepared for. Reddit knows which applications are using the API keys so they know where to send the bill. But the changes took effect on July 1st. The apps that shut down before the first did so because the developer killed their API key so they wouldn't occur any charges.

The AMA was the real line in the sand where he 'answered' about 6 questions but mainly took the opportunity to slag off the Apollo Dev.

That was where it was clear he had no interest in explaining the changes, talking people round but this was just his decision now please fuck off.

I get the feeling he thinks he's showing people he's a tough man making tough decisions and coming out of this looking strong though...

Yeah, I won't deny that even before joining here I'd be searching for the latest Reddit installment in the news... It's the rubbernecker in all of us