Reddit CEO compares moderators to aristocracy as blackout stretches on
cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/113869
A CEO at war with his customers/users is never good for any business.
Lmao imagine thinking of the volunteer labour who make your site successful as the enemy
You say volunteers, he thinks slaves
If mods are the aristocracy, isn’t he just saying he’s a king??
Emperor with no clothes?
Any chance of a non-paywalled option? Or an option that doesn't want me to continue reading in their official app? (How's that for irony?)
Maybe someone could make one that relies on Web scraping instead of API usage, something similar to NewPipe for YouTube but for Reddit. Might be a while though, web scraping isn't as intuitive as API and not offense but Devs are still a bit spoiled from having unrestricted API usage since forever.
Also before other people try and tell me I am aware that you can use Personal API keys from your account, however they might crack down on that in the future and either prevent people from using it or impose more strict limitations on its usage (if everyone just gets a personal API key instead of paying they're probably not going to take it laying down).
Inaccurate analogy, since the mods don't own the subreddit, a more accurate one would be spez is a landlord, the mods are tenant farmers, and the users and contents are the crops.
Huffman acknowledged to the Verge that he took a “beating” in an Ask Me Anything post he did on the platform last week in which he defended Reddit’s plans. But he maintains it is not Reddit’s responsibility to help keep third-party apps alive.
He answered what 13-14 questions with mostly canned responses? Huffman took such a beating with the softball questions he did answer.