As for Reddit, the price of the API is not the point. Rather, the price is so high that nobody’s going to use the API, and that’s the point.

Yea ik that I just didn’t wanna make my post too long haha.

On a more general level, though, I think what you’re talking about is the process known as “enshittification”.

Spot on.

It’s about time we moved on to a better way of doing things anyway, I’m pretty good with moving away from the old ad-based, exploit your community for profit model, personally.

Yes, you’re exactly right with that. Even if Reddit at the moment lacks a major competitor which actually threatens to take its place but rather, numerous smaller competitors, I guess the resultant peace that comes with everyone being divided after fleeing the website is something that I can’t deny I have been real happy with. I have found this peace through coming to Kbin. If it stays small, I will continue to enjoy this peace, and if it actually overtakes Reddit, then let us be known as the veterans of Kbin/Lemmy.

Yea ik that, I still wanted to mention it though to get my point across that companies are simply deteriorating the user experiences of their own platforms. Even as a Discord user myself, it doesn’t bother me that much but my point stands.

Exactly this. Companies like Reddit these days are so disconnected with their userbase it’s insane. Of all the millions of things Reddit could do to make their platform a better place, they choose to basically remove the services that everyone liked (the 3rd party apps) and not only that, lie to their users (as with the case of Apollo “blackmailing Reddit for $10 million”) and double down on them. It sickens me how ignorant they can be, but I guess that the hard lesson we can all take away is that with money and power comes corruption.

Have a conversation, run polls, A/B test, etc. And be transparent while you’re doing it. These tools are nothing new when developing a service. Why ignore everything?

I mean, based on how dramatic the increasing in price the API was, I wouldn’t be surprised if Reddit already knew what the public reaction would be, considering they’ll probably also receive considerable hate for even contemplating the decision. Of course they just didn’t give a second thought and just went with it.