welp theres gonna be a lot more people who are suddenly 18 making accounts coming out of no where

The *voluneer* mods rely on 3rd-party apps to moderate the subs. Without easy mod tools and the effect of moderation, running the sub isn’t worth it for the *volunteer* moderators.

the comment section did kinda die then though. It used to be waaaay more active and fun

I never realized that moderators did so much for the site. For free.

Spez has been particularly egregious and petty for decades.  This isn’t news.

The difference, at least with other for-profit entities like FB and Insta, is that they have big in-house moderation teams (the effectiveness of which can be debated, but still) and don’t expect volunteers to handle it all. Add to that the fact that they want to cut off the ability of third-party moderation tools to…

The biggest sticking point for me in this situation is how necessary 3rd party apps are for accessibility. Reddit offers NOTHING officially for visually impaired users. 3rd party apps are their only reasonable way to use the site. 

These third party apps make Reddit as ‘tolerable’ as it is today. Without them, it’s going to turn into an unmoderated cesspool like Twitter. It will die.

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

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.

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.

They’ll no doubt have a constant stream of trolls and double agents to deal with if they start replacing mods. Wouldn’t be surprised if spez just decides to make himself Supreme Overmod and take over every subreddit on his own. Then he’ll have the constant shitstream of troll posts to deal with.

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.

Good. Fuck em

I have a coworker who would say that makes you ANTIFA and their enemy. But they love Indiana Jones. Their world experience makes total sense to them and I have no idea what to make of it.

Dude, the fucking founder of the Wagner Group is a fucking full-on overt Nazi! Check out his Nazi rank insignia tattoos and shit he has showed off, proudly, publically! Also, Wagner Group - as inspired by Richard Wagner, Hitler’s favorite composer.

Far more nazis in russia than in Ukraine.. and Russia is currently the one invading neighboring countries in a voluntary war of aggression, committing war crimes, bombing civilians and generally actually being all the things that we despise the wwII nazis for soing.

I mean, I dunno, I have a thought that should please both sides of the aisle, presuming the GOP actually wants to reduce government spending (I know, I know, unless it goes into defense and thus into their pockets):

Completely unnecessary. Good to modernise, but Star Wars is a different universe, so keep it that way as much as possible. Maintain the uniqueness, thereby keeping it what it is. As noted by Yellowfoot in regards to Firefly, their swearing methodology was great. It felt otherworldly and isn’t that what you want for an…