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Buckle up, Reddit: Closed APIs cost more than you’d expect (cointelegraph.com)
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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Despite the protests, Reddit's Huffman has persisted in arguing that Reddit is "a living organism, this democratic living organism, created by its users."

No way can a democratic society last under a corporatocracy which, by default, is essentially a dictatorship. And corporatocracy is exactly what Huffman is pushing.

Y’know, it’s highly hypocritical that the article mentions the reason for the API shutoff is to force users to pay for the content while redditcorp doesn’t pay for the content users generate that reddit wants those same users to pay to access.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A 'democratic organism' where puppet mods are installed because the 'democratically' supported ones won't toll the company line. Uh-huh. Sure, Steve.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Ah, the Democratic People's Republic of Reddit. I hear they really love spez there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

What do you mean? it could easily be called the Democratic website of the users of reddit