LiveLaughLoveRevenge

We laugh but this does an excellent point of underscoring the whole power dynamic in Reddit.

Who normally keeps these subs on message, and controls content? The mods.

The mods are volunteers that curate the content of Reddit. And Reddit did a shit job by getting into a pissing contest with their own best assets.

@Mkengine

@Mynkla

Seconding this. I also started to simply directly reading articles on things I found interesting, rather than just reading reddit discussions on things.

You’re in luck!

https://dangerousthings.com/product/xnt/

If they had charged API fees such that 3rd party apps would have had to charge a monthly fee to users…I would have probably just paid. And I know I’m not the only one.

But they priced it intentionally to kill 3rd party apps, because they wanted to channel access through their garbage app with its “promoted” ads all over the place.

It’s not about “free vs. not free” it’s about intentionally killing off the applications that made reddit likeable as a platform.

Insightful, evocative, well-written, and 100% pertinent to what is going on these days.

Thank you for sharing this.

Anyone reading my comment who just read a bit of this article or skimmed it - please do yourself a favour and devote 10mins to reading the full thing.