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Old 06-19-2023, 08:42 AM  
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"Protesting" for APIs who can no longer suck data for free?

Seriously?
Are you kidding? Reddit gets its content for free and then sells advertising on it and the CEO is crying that someone else might be making a bit of money also.. There is way more to this protest than just the API changes...

The dude is an idiot, even worse he publicly stated that he wanted to model Reddit after the disaster Elon Musk made out of Twitter. The idiot has publicly stated he thinks Elon Musk handled Twitter very well and wants to model Reddit's changes after that.

Elon Musk stopped paying rent and is now getting evicted from multiple properties Twitter had offices. He hired non-licensed electricians to change shit in those buildings so workers could live in them so they could work 18hr days.. He's now getting sued over that, because it violated building codes.. He's taken Twitter's value from 44 billion down to around 14 billion and still falling. The entire Twitter site is nothing but a cesspool of hate and spam bots now..

The Reddit CEO sees all this and says.. "Yeah I want some of that!"

^^
That's what the protest is now about.. The API stuff just got the ball rolling..
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