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1. This does not address the imminent bankruptcy of third-party Reddit apps, which is driving the majority of this backlash.
2. Even if third-party tools like bots are not directly affected, their maintainers and users *disproportionately* rely on third-party Reddit apps to moderate and browse the site, and many are now threatening to quit the site and take their critical tools offline in protest if their favorite apps are forced to shut down by the exorbitant API costs.
These changes affect a tiny percentage of Reddit's userbase. But this tiny percentage are the most engaged power users that help make the site go at every level, far more than multiple millions of lurkers and occasional commenters. Read up on the 1% Rule[1] of social media. Y'all are screwing with the load-bearing walls holding up the inverted pyramid of your entire business model.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
Comment by TheMadFlyentist at 06/06/2023 at 02:56 UTC
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This does not address the imminent bankruptcy of third-party Reddit apps, which is driving the majority of this backlash.
This is their attempt to say "Look, the new reddit app is going to do all of the same stuff your third party apps do!" without addressing the actual glaring issues with the official app.