Why 3x? I’m curious on the number. In an admitted naive way, I’d expect them to demand from the third party app exactly the same as they’d get through the official one.
Let’s hope they walk this back.
I don’t hope so. That wasn’t the first case of Reddit being user-hostile; it has been doing this for a long time already. I think that it’s actually better in the long run if they keep the decision, Reddit undergoes brain drain, and people move out of the site.
Everybody knows that it was bound to happen. Reddit is hopeless and the blackout on its own won’t do good in the long run.
That’s why I’m trying to kick this off: