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Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36264232

Based takes (all downvoted):

This whole drama is very odd to me and feels like a (very) vocal minority of users incorrectly extrapolating their preferences to those of all Reddit users.

Reddit owns its API. It has every right to price access however they see fit. It is wild to think that will spend $10s of millions to support 3rd party apps. Or to expect that they would acquire third party apps.

I predict Reddit will stick to their guns and that this entire brouhaha will have little to no effect on Reddit's user and engagement metrics over the medium term.

If you're outraged and highly engaged with this controversy, do you think its possible you're in a bubble?


Why does the Apollo guy see the API as his entitlement? Reddit ain’t a charity. Neither is HN.


You fill a site with communists who don’t want to work and think everything should be free and then you’re surprised when the reality of running a business outrages them? Stop trying to have it both ways.


The reality is that the Reddit users that actually care about this enough to show up and rage in the AMA are also the ones that are almost completely unmonetizable. So I doubt there was ever really any risk of major loss from this.

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Since when are reddit servers expensive to run?

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Since they started hosting videos themselves, probably. Plus they have 2000 employees, not sure what their average salary is but that adds up.

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