The reddit blackout is a good opportunity to grow saidit

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[–]UncleJemima 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Dude - you're one of the rare sane ones here - and you know Reddit will survive this. Moreover, fuck APIs, IMO. Perhaps Reddit will improve without so many of them.

[–]Vulptex[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

APIs are essential. People need it to do research, to provide uncensorship tools, to provide reddit search, pushshift, public mod logs, scripts, bots, mod tools, to use apps other than the official one, and so much else. Removing them is part of the plot to give the admins absolute power, and eventually the IPO.

[–]UncleJemima 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Agreed that this sucks for those using APIs and that Reddit admins are shooting themselves in the feet. But do any of those APIs benefit most of the 430 million monthy Reddit users? Not necessary. If Reddit screws itself by making it difficult for others to use it as a business, this still has a minimal impact on the user experience for most users, seems to me. For many of us it's always been a news aggregator, nothing more nothing less.

[–]Vulptex[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lots of users use unofficial apps. Lots of people make use of bots. Lots of people use browser extensions for reddit. Lots of people use uncensorship tools and pushshift functions. Even if those were very few, there's still no reason to shut them down.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

the core issue is how shitty reddit's official phone apps are. everyone seems to hate them. and core issue #2 is porn

[–]UncleJemima 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yep - the phone app is shitty. I didn't know I had other options and I don't use it enough to care.

I've not read anything about porn problems, and I find it odd that anyone would need to use Reddit for that. A while ago pornvids was banned, and now I see it reopened 7 days ago, though with none of the videos. Nothing's posted there, other than a notice, indicating to me that others don't trust Reddit's approach to that sub.