I can definitely get annoyed by how black and white everything always has to be on the internet.
Can I be upset that Reddit is killing my 3rd party app? Absolutely
Can I also realise that Reddit is not a charity and that in this economy, they are no longer going to subsidize 3rd party app developers? Absolutely
Like, I left Reddit because I think their official app sucks balls. I had a 3rd party app I loved. I’m upset. But it’s also weird to see Meta, Alphabet, Spotify, Amazon, etc. lay off their staff and at the same time expect Reddit to willingly hand their content over for free to 3rd party apps.
There is a middle ground between “free” and “prohibitively expensive”. Reddit did not choose it. This was about killing the apps that their users preferred.
I can definitely get annoyed by how black and white everything always has to be on the internet.
Can I be upset that Reddit is killing my 3rd party app? Absolutely Can I also realise that Reddit is not a charity and that in this economy, they are no longer going to subsidize 3rd party app developers? Absolutely
Like, I left Reddit because I think their official app sucks balls. I had a 3rd party app I loved. I’m upset. But it’s also weird to see Meta, Alphabet, Spotify, Amazon, etc. lay off their staff and at the same time expect Reddit to willingly hand their content over for free to 3rd party apps.
I’m upset but I’m not naïve.
There is a middle ground between “free” and “prohibitively expensive”. Reddit did not choose it. This was about killing the apps that their users preferred.
Yeah, but their content relies on so much unpaid labor. The other big sites have paid mods. This has essentially become a labor dispute.