People always call this a market failure while willfully ignoring that whenever markets are left unchecked, this is the inevitable outcome.
Also forced them into arbitration, then refused to arbitrate the dispute.
Let's see Paul Allen's turntable!
Though if I had to guess, it's going to be stuff like "build a shit ton of nuclear power plants, use e fuels for cars, use green hydrogen, develop fusion power, and generally do all the things that allow us to believe that we have to change absolutely nothing in our lives."
I'll start believing in Reddit's commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don't like their decisions.
Until then, it's just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.
That meme is 11 years old now.
Shocking.
It's pretty crazy how u/spez seems to focus on some random third party app developers making money off of Reddit.
He tries to couch this in language about AI and the cost of maintaining an API and that the API was never meant to support 3PAs, but then loops back to what sounds like insane hatred and envy of third party developers.
And then, in the same interview, he points out how unpaid moderators who do all the work and make Reddit all the money have too much power.
It's lunacy.
Yeah, we don't know yet. On the one hand, it's still the early days of (some) people leaving Reddit - and who knows if they won't go back.
On the other hand, the API payment structure and the shutdown of 3PAs hasn't even happened yet. Even people who are completely oblivious to the situation but who are using a 3PA will have to decide if they'll be able to deal with the shitty official app, if they'll just stop browsing Reddit on mobile, or if they're willing to take a look at alternatives.
See, I really don't need all those people to leave Reddit and appear over here.
I'm fine if Reddit keeps being what Reddit has become over the years, and all the angry, toxic, trolling, shit posting people stay over there as well.
I'm fine with a much smaller, much friendlier community.
Yeah, we're not in disagreement here.
I love how this statement is dripping with condescension for the people who built the service he's currently driving into the ground - all while thinking of himself as some kind of super genius.