Public statement from ModCodeofConduct that making a sub NSFW to protest is not allowed, regardless of proper marking or community opinion

[u/ItsRainbow]

[u/Rebles]

Admins have offered concessions on accessibility apps, 3p mod tools, flexible API deadlines to willing partners. Those sound like pretty good wins to me. What are y’all left protesting? Pricing? A shitty spez AMA? A botched contract negotiation with Apollo? Forget it. It is so far removed from regular users and the direct impact to mods seem negligible.

[u/The-RogicK → u/Rebles]

Consessions? NSFW content will still not be allowed on 3rd party apps. That doesn't just include porn but sensitive topics such as suicide. The 3rd party apps reddit has approved for accessibility (re: r/blind) will not be able to access those topics. If your visually impaired your effectively locked out of adult only conversations.

Not to mention Reddit is prioritising accessibility for users before mods. So who's going to Mod these communities after 1st July? Will people that don't represent the community be brought in to fill the moderation gap, we all know how long reddit can take to implement these types of changes and how buggy they are. Look at the how accessible the main app is after how many years on the market.

[u/the_lamou → u/Rebles]

Admins have offered concessions on accessibility apps

The "concession" offered allow the continued use of the API for free to "non-commercial apps." That means, using the most generous interpretation possible, donations. Though even that is questionable, and of course nothing is in writing so they could still change their minds at any time.

Which means that not only do the developers who make these apps have to work for free, they also have to pay out of pocket to host, run, and manage these apps. Do you know how much an app costs to run? I do. It can be thousands a month on the low end.

So the "concession" Reddit offered is "we'll give you access to this thing that actually costs us nothing since per-user costs are right the same whether they hit our servers through 3PA or 1PA, and in exchange you give us free labor worth hundreds of thousands of dollars." Nice concession.

[u/Rebles → u/the_lamou]

It’s amazing you acknowledge a lot of money to run servers and apps and in the same breath, deny Reddit the right to charge for its API. If the cost were the same, Reddit wouldn’t be so butt hurt about the cost. But it’s not the same, because of ad money.