Reddit communities to go dark on June 12th, setting themselves to private

Earlier this year, I ranted about Twitter’s excessive pricing on their API which has now ceased although later than February 9th as indicated by the linked article.

According to my rant, Twitter wantedo charge as much as $42,000 to start and s much as $210,000 for their higher tear and its a monthly change that most developers can’t pay.

While Reddit says they’re only charging $12k for API access, its still excesive for a lot of people.

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On june 12, 2023: hundreds of sub reddit communities will set themselves to private to protest this change. The article also links to coverage of Twitter’s mistakes.

Someone said “Why didn’t people speak up when Twitter did this? I did! Very loudly. See my rant on the $42k post linking to said article.

I know, I know, my blog can only do so much, but this network has said something about the outright problems that Twitter started.

Unfortunately, I do not have the manpower to do this myself, so please read Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps/ and boost, retweet and share it far and wide.

According to the article, the tools Reddit uses to manage communities is bad, so they must use applications to do the job.

According to other posts I’ve spotted, blind and visually impaired customers will definitely be disadvantaged if they use the platform.

I, Jared Rimer, have never used reddit. I can not comment on whether their tools are accessible, or the third party apps are. But I can say that this will hurt more than the blind community if Reddit decides to go through with this.

This, is just discusting. I don’t have any words for people who decide to charge this type of pricing structure.

According to one paragraph, Reddit says that it is $.24 per 1,000 calls or a buck a user. But app developers including the one quoted in the first story still say its going to cost millions. They claim it is sufficient if the apps are sponsible for their calls. Do they know how many users use the apps on any given basis? I don’t.

So … what the hell is going on over here? I’m completely confused. Read the articles, make the decision best for you and please share this post. Maybe it should go to reddit, I’m not there to do it.

Have fun with this one!