Because THERE ARE NO NAZIS IN UKRAINE. Shadesof808080 is a Russian bot spouting the same weak propaganda since 2014. That’s why all they have is “here is a logo that resembles a swastika” or “this blurry detail could be a swastika.” If there was a significant Nazi presence in Ukraine with its democratically elected…

Estimates are less than 5% of Reddit users are using a 3rd party app. They’re not losing a ton of ad revenue.

A thousand stars for that. And if ever confronted, even by a group of them, I hope I’m brave enough and fast enough to at least get in one solid punch, whatever the risk to myself.

Punching a Nazi doesn’t redeem anything. It just makes the Nazi hurt. That’s the point. If you don’t make the Nazis hurt, then new people will think it doesn’t hurt to be a Nazi. Then there will be more Nazis.

Also if we took it as a general principle that we can’t criticize other countries for offenses we ourselves are guilty of then we could barely criticize anyone.

Dude,... OUR military probably has as many Nazis and white supremacists in it as the Ukrainian military.

Reddit relies on users to create content and mods to keep the content within community guidelines. Reddit is generating money from this volunteer effort.

What do you mean by “their” data? It isn’t their data. It’s the users data. Reddit doesn’t actually create any content and is entirely dependent on the goodwill of its users to function. 

Punching someone is unspeakable, huh.  Extreme pacifism like that isn’t any more morally correct than unprovoked extreme violence is.

We tried debating the Nazis. It didn’t work.

My response to anyone who opposes punching Nazis is that we already had the “debate” about them back in the 40s and the Nazis lost.

I mean, have you opened up a Gizmodo or AV Club article from 2012? None of those classic commenters are here anymore and a lowly article back then got 5x the number of total comments as in 2023.

This would only be true if Reddit were asking for a fee within the realm of possibility. The $12,000 for 50 million API calls is over 70x what similar platforms charge. It’s like posting a 2013 Honda Accord on Autotrader for over 1 million dollars.

Reddit is trying to charge an amount that is over 70 times the industry standard cost of API calls. It’s clearly an astronomically unreasonable amount that is the problem.

This wasn’t about letting 3rd party devs “do whatever they want.” Christian Selig, the dev who created Apollo, admitted that paying for API was something that he knew would eventually have to happen. It was Reddit’s outrageous pricing and accelerated implementation of the charges that wouldn’t allow him to adjust…

Except that isn’t the issue at all. The issue is not if they should charge or even any limits they are putting on using the API. The issue is how much money they want and how much time the app devs have to implement changes.

If they want to charge for their API, that’s fine. If app developers can’t afford it, that’s just business, I guess. Pricing your product so high that nobody is going to buy it doesn’t sound like a way to generate revenue to me, but then I didn’t go to business school.

Thank you Mr. Romita.

Well, they will continue to let 3rd parties access the API and do exactly what they had been doing - just for a much higher price. They are shooting themselves in the foot, just as Twitter has done, not realizing or caring how many of their users prefer using a third-party app.

I think it’s less “emasculation”, and more that they are confronted with the thought of viewing women as human beings instead of objects and property.