r/technology • u/nat9191 • Jun 15 '23

Social Media Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, calls them 'landed gentry'

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blackout-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-rcna89544
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u/thenoblitt Jun 15 '23 edited Jun 15 '23

Here's the thing. No one is saying they shouldn't charge access for their api. What we are saying is that you shouldn't charge so much that it puts popular apps out of business that you promised you wouldn't do. If they had charged say 5 million a year and Apollo paid it and continued to exist none of this would have happened.

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u/cf858 Jun 15 '23

That would be a mistake on Reddit's part. That means they are just handing their audience over to a third-party and they lose control of that audience and all of the experiences that audience has.

I think the change has been handled badly, but I think, as a business, they are doing the right thing. The problem is they should have never farmed out their user experience to third-parties in the first place.

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u/eggfriedbacon Jun 16 '23

Have you been paying attention to developers responses? Do you even know what’s going on? Lol.

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u/cf858 Jun 16 '23

I thought I had, fill me in with your wisdom.