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Good. Fuck spez.

Good. Maybe one day the investors will see this idiot for what he is: a greedy racist fascist. And stop investing in his bullshit.

If capitalism works, we’ll start to see competitors enter the market and prices would go down.

If capitalism worked.

Edit> In case it was lost, I changed tense in my second sentence because I know capitalism doesn’t work and only has ever served to make the rich even richer.

Good, keep going down. I can’t wait until all of it literally blows up in Elon’s stupid-looking face.

the local police dept and criminal justice system has been colluding with the criminals (all members of the local Mormon church)

Sounds about on par for the corrupt, death cult religionists. Quick! Someone steal their magic underwear and ransom it back to them for the LEGOs!

…not working out, eh?

Shocking. So shocking.

I’m shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!

One can be an idiot and still think they know they’re doing.

However, you’re likely right. They’re less idiotic and more malicious and nefarious. We’re back in the mode of “let’s use every possible method to try to control people.” What these assholes don’t realize is that eventually the people will rise up again and simply murder them. The rich have this coming as well. It’s only a matter of time and how much the masses are willing to put up with before the dam blows.

Is there any actual purpose, for the consumer, that this serves? These governments are full of literal idiots.

Why the fuck does everything that’s good turn to shit? This world sucks. This timeline sucks.

A-hahahahahahaha. AHAHAHAHAHAHA. AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! breathes deeply AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I didn’t realize they offered a NWD option.

Every time I see his face, I just want to punch it. He has one of those faces that shows complete and utter incompetency in everything and deserves to have his face smashed in.

In case anyone wants more information from a couple of other indirect sources:

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/cacdce/8:2026cv00748/1012972

https://www.classaction.org/media/roku-complaint.pdf

This definitely has to do with AI. Because CEOs are losing their stupid minds over it. I agree with you in principle, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that this specific technology is what CEOs are drooling over. Even in my company I had to tell the owner/CEO, “What problem are you trying to solve with AI?” His response was his mouth being open with a dumb look on his face.

So no business should rely on AI (or, to your point, any software) that it becomes detrimental to their business or workforce should that access be revoked.

Or… taps mic… don’t fucking rely on AI for your business! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Well, I suppose with my suggestion, which in my view is the correct path they should have taken, any alt account would also have to be a paid subscriber to Reddit if they wanted to access the full API with that account. I don’t really see much justification to support alt accounts on the same subscription.

And you hit the nail on the head about Reddit trying to make the third party app developers be payment middlemen. It made zero sense to me if it wasn’t for greed or to squeeze out those app developers so they could force their user base to their own mobile application which was considerably inferior at the time, but allowed Reddit to show advertisements.

It was apparent to me that they did this to make their impending IPO more appealing to potential investors because it shows that “line goes up” — which is the only thing investors care about and why the enshittification of good things always happens.

If you can feel my bitterness, it’s because I deleted my 15-year Reddit account in July 2023 that had a couple of posts during the account lifetime that made it to the front page. Which, for a nobody like me, was kind-of cool. However, while I’m not over Spez being a greedy piece of crap, I am quite over being on Reddit and, like you, am very happy to be a part of the Fediverse!

No, they made the third party app developers pay the license fees, not the users. If they changed that since I left, then that I’m ignorant of. It made zero sense to force payment from the developers and every sense to simply create a two-tiered API where maybe only a read-only front page works (no commenting) unless you’re a paid subscriber to Reddit, which could be available via an authorization scheme on the logged-in user. It’s simple to do. But they decided (at the time) to screw over the third party developers directly by forcing them to pay.

Thing is, even Christian (the guy who made Apollo) said a nominal fee makes sense and he would have been fine paying that, but he would have had to pay literal millions of dollars within like a month’s notice in order to keep going, and have to pass that exorbitant cost onto his users who ALREADY paid him for yearly subscriptions/etc.

Simply put: Reddit should only have charged users directly, via subscription to Reddit, in order to use a fully-featured API irrespective of which client they use it through.

Spez is a greedy piece of garbage.

The only way I’ll ever rejoin Reddit is if they fire that piece of shit, Spez, and every other piece of shit who had a hand in the monetization of their API access which destroyed third party apps like Apollo; and if they change that monetization, either making it free or making it so you have to be a paid Reddit subscriber to have expanded API access.

They did the whole thing with their API completely backwards, on purpose, to shut out the third party apps – when they could have still been able to make money by doing it properly and not alienating a lot of their userbase.

And now that Reddit is effectively a right-wing cesspool of lies and bullshit, just like Twitter has become, even if they fix what they broke, it may not be worth rejoining.

I don’t have a wide audience, I’m just a speck in a sea of the internet.

But here you go, DHS. FUCK ICE. FUCK THEIR FASCISM AND AUTHORITARIAN BULLSHIT. FUCK THEIR COWARDICE. FUCK EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM.

Please. I dare you to subpoena me.