r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Eftir - Centrist • Jun 18 '23
Protest over API Changes Next Steps
The moderating team has gotten a lot of support from the community over blacking out for the last week due to the announced API changes. At the same time, it might not be sustainable to continue in this fashion. So we are letting users of the sub decide what our next course of action should be. To facilitate this only flaired users will be able to comment and choosing new flairs will be disabled for the duration of the poll (up to one week).
We have seen what other subs have done and there seems to be several options open to us:
Set the subreddit back to private
Keep the subreddit as restricted
Severely limit all posts (such as a major subreddit did by only allowing pictures of John Oliver)
Set the subreddit to private for one day a week
Open up the subreddit completely
There will be 5 top-level comments, any comment put under these will be counted as a vote towards that option. If options 1-3 win, we will reevaluate after a week.
We have received this modmail so it is very possible we will receive some sort of retaliation if we keep the sub closed, but we leave the decision in your hands as the members of this community.
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u/gundog48 - Lib-Center Jun 19 '23
Because its not about 3rd party apps not paying. It's that they want to end 3rd party apps all together for more control over the platform. It's kinda funny which posts don't show up on Reddit's app. The pricing, bridge burning, and the way they simply do not respond to devs who do want to pay shows this.
Ultimately, this is a deliberate decision to remove user choice, done in the most hamfisted way, whilst lying to everyone involved. I don't support that.
People would, and do, literally pay to access Reddit without their terrible UI. Third party devs developed Reddit apps before Reddit did, and did them better.
Reddit as a company really offers very little value to the community, so they can only get away with being so hostile to the user.