• backseat@beehaw.org
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    What’s the betting he’ll back down in some way (which was the plan all along)? That way they’ll get what they originally wanted but will look as if they’ve “listened”.

    I’m not sure I believe that will happen though, tbh.

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      I would put money on that not happening at all. The suite of changes this time are exceptionally broad and seem 100% targeted at public investment. They can’t back-down on deciding to go public, and they can’t really go public with some of these things in place.

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        Yeah I don’t expect anything to happen either. The big “blackout” having a predetermined duration of 48 hours is a joke. Reddit can just sit it out and be done with it. After reading the farewell post of the Apollo dev it also seems like Reddit is doubling down on their pricing model with no leeway.

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          I do find it odd that they chose the protest to be only 48 hours. What are they hoping to accomplish then? All spez has to do is wait for the 48 hours to end and resume his normal operations.

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      My bet is that they’ll announce that they’re still charging for the API, but at a “drastically” reduced price. As you say, I think it was their plan all along. That way they can still milk third party apps, all the while still being able to say “we listened to the community” by not destroying them outright

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        I just don’t get why they were doing per api call to the app at all, instead of a subscription to reddit for the users. I might have paid a bit to keep using redreader and avoid ads.

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      I don’t think they will, but even if they did I kind of suspect the apps will still shutdown, they all announced their shutdown at once, I am sure they discussed amongst each other and reached a line in the sand with reddit. If I got that sort of treatment, even if they backed down I’d never trust them again, I’d never want to work with them again and I don’t see how that sort of situation is tenable. So they could completely abandon the changes and still have achieved the result they want. However, at this point they’ve already vilified themselves to those who will ever care, so there’s no reason to back down at all.

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      I think that’s probably what’s going to happen on June 14 so they can look like the “good guys”, but I’m not fully sure to be honest.