Everyone's talking about enshitification, but they're also just extremely late to the game. The rest of big tech monetized a long time ago and pissed off their users, but managed to keep a solid amount of their users and the rest went... to Reddit. I guess I understand a corporation's need to monetize, but when you built a platform that was meant to be different than the rest you're definitely going to experience some pain when you decide to be like them.

Reddit will most definitely survive this and maybe even be profitable in a few years, but they'll have completely given up what they originally stood for to do so. Personally, I'm just happy this whole thing gave me a push out the door and a place to migrate to, Reddit was already turning into a place I didn't want to be long before this.

They didn't really give good context to the situation. They really should be talking about how these changes are going to be affecting reddit's sources of information. That the fee's they want to charge are ridiculously high for any developer (essentially pricing out any but the rich). How all content is user generated, maintained and controlled and yet reddit feels they are the owners of it. If they want to make these changes then they need to be taking a serious look at the solutions the community are coming up with.

Yeah, honestly he seems to have some personal beef with third party apps, like he's personally offended and hurt they're profitable when the main app isn't. I think that all of this has just served to demonstrate two things clearly: CEOs, though incredibly out of touch are still human, and you don't need to be above average intelligence in order to be rich.

"And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”

I love how this is suddenly only a problem for them now but has been something they defended for years previously.

I came here because of the article

I just hate that Spez continues to act like 3rd parties didn't offer or cite reasonable examples and costs for api access. No one was saying cost was not an option but it was a ludicrous cost and an amazingly short timeline that started the whole fiasco.

He can't be citing real statistics. I don't know 3% of their reported 57 million users but I do know that every person I know that uses reddit uses third party apps.