Reddit

I think the only way this ends amicably between the community and Reddit at this point is Huffman is ousted and then they can finally entertain other deals for API access. I'm sure they're looking at the insane profits AI companies are raking in largely off of data they scraped from sites like Reddit for free and thinking "WTF". My impression is third party apps got caught kinda in the crossfire on this and weren't actually their main target, but Huffman has managed to turn it in to some weird kind of ego issue now he's accusing multiple developers of antagonizing the platform, refusing to work with them, when we have proof from several of them in multiple instances of the direct opposite. Attempts to reach out that go unanswered. An impossibly timeline to implement changes. Trying to throw the Apollo dev under the bus only to double down when confronted with proof he lied to press. Utterly bizarre. He needs to go.