Comment by toxictoy on 18/12/2023 at 22:41 UTC

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That’s because we aren’t the real customers of Reddit. The real customers are paying the exorbitant prices for the API calls. Now it would be interesting to know just who those real clients of Reddit actually are who can afford to make Reddit API applications.

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Comment by WalkingEars at 18/12/2023 at 22:49 UTC

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AI chatbot developers are, I assume, the main "clients" and the reason for the API access changes. In some ways it would partly explain the clumsy/rushed/hasty way the changes were made