Reddit is picking a fight with the internet…

It almost sounds like an excuse for Reddit to “revert” the site back and restore the site to pre-blackout state…

Going through an app also prevents the awful redirects.

That's the only logical conclusion. Wouldn't really make sense otherwise.

Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable - Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO

Translation - we don't have control of the 3PA and they are getting in the way of moooore profit, so we want them gone.

First name: Dead

Last Name: Patient

There seems to be a misconception by a lot of corporates that shoving ads down users throats will make the users want what is advertised.

Personally, I go out of my way to avoid anything that are shown to me intrusively.

But....but...I like lurking.

Apparently, a heck of a lost of drama involving this.

Link to reddit for those who wants to give traffic to reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesome/comments/148aw58/radviceanimals_just_had_the_top_mods_permissions/

Done. Sorry got distracted with my dog trying to eat my Joycon.

Is anyone else also been gettin loading errors on Apollo since yesterday? I’ve stayed off since then but seems like they are already messing with API access already.

The OpenCollective link seems to be reaching an error page a, FYI.

I think I figure out my issue. I’m running pfBlockerNG on my firewall and it looks like the lemmy.world server IP ended up in the CINS_army_v4 list and was getting blocked in my network.

I'm hoping that a lot of the subreddits that has gone dark would remain dark indefinitely. Granted, the Reddit admins might try to replace the mods on a lot of the subreddits - but at that point the community may not be the same anymore.

Most of the 3PA devs has already said, they are not against paying for API usage, as long as it’s a reasonable price. The pricing Reddit wants is definitely to kill 3PA.

Works fine with iPhones built-in reader. This is pretty cool.

Wondering the consequences of reviving a 5000 year old worm species. I would imagine this would never make it back to the wild.

Hah! Some one will need to read this in Morgan Freeman voice for extra entertainment!