Reddit is totally justified in this. The users are actively and maliciously trying to hurt Reddit. However, this is in response to many many completely unjustifiable actions from Reddit. Mostly the lies.
If they had just come out and said “we’re killing the API in 6-12 months”, as others before them have done, they would have seen much less pushback, but they had to lie over and over again about “not killing 3rd party apps” and “working with developers”.
Reddit is totally justified in this. The users are actively and maliciously trying to hurt Reddit. However, this is in response to many many completely unjustifiable actions from Reddit. Mostly the lies.
If they had just come out and said “we’re killing the API in 6-12 months”, as others before them have done, they would have seen much less pushback, but they had to lie over and over again about “not killing 3rd party apps” and “working with developers”.
A dog is justified to snap at a toddler if the toddler jabs it in the eye, the toddlers parents will still want the dog put down.
The hypocritcal thing here is that Worldpolitics did this years ago and reddit didn’t care.