People are starting to place bets on Reddit's civil war
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BetUS said not all everyone believes Reddit might reverse its pricing move, but almost all think CEO Steve Huffman will survive regardless.

Hundreds of people are putting money on whether the company will back-track on its new API pricing policy or oust its CEO Steve Huffman, BetUS told Insider.

The online betting company said there was “very close heat” over whether Reddit will reverse its new pricing policy.

“So far, the betting public seems very much “at odds” and are undecided on this one so far,” it said.

Almost all bets have been on Huffman still being CEO by December 31, BetUS added.

  • @[email protected]English
    15•2 years ago

    Not gonna happen. They’ll stick by the API changes, maybe with some tweaks. The main structure will be the same, I’m sure.

    • @TheMinionsEnglish
      14•2 years ago

      My thought is that, even if they did reverse the pricing changes, would any of the third party apps stick around? Apollo, Sync, and RiF have all announced shutdowns and I doubt pricing changes would change that at this point. I could be wrong.

      • yesdogishere
        3•2 years ago

        reddit is fucked. it can only die now. infested with right wing idiot bloggers.

        • @[email protected]
          -3•2 years ago

          And the fediverse isn’t? We must see vastly different versions of the fedi.

          But in fairness, I also see a lot of far left idiot bloggers here. Books balance, all is good.

      • parrot-party
        2•2 years ago

        They wouldn’t shut down if the API changes were reversed. It’s still a revenue stream for them. But I could easily see them not developing the apps anymore without stronger assurances of long term support.

      • Pika
        2•2 years ago

        I know at least Apollo would not be returning, the dev made that clear when they asked about extensions that they would not be putting the bot on the platform and that regardless of if an extension was given the project was being sunset.

    • Bojimbo
      1•2 years ago

      Spez is a sacrifice. He says all the villain words, gets everyone to hate him, then he is fired with a severence so reddit can give mods their bots back and call it a day while not addressing any of the wider concerns.