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[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Considering I found this comment on Reddit, I guess so.

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago

"Yeah, well, but having no mods is actually great, we don't even need no mods and these grapes are too sour anyway." - not an alt account of spez at all

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hey, I remember this website from back in the day. They still around or is this old?

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Hehe, that's my quote. It's from my comment on a Louis Rossmann video. https://lemmy.world/post/1098344

[–] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Awww that's too bad.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't see anything that would need to be moderated here? Or is it just about these comments that are unrelated to the post?

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think they're complaining about a low effort meme in /r/piracy.

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[–] DesolateMood@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

There are many (re)posts with this "if paying isn't owning..." slogan and also many memes being made about the reposts. The piracy subreddit doesn't seem to have a whole lot of piracy right now, it's just, well, this

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 years ago (30 children)

Can someone explain me this "Reddit API" thing?

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Mods used third party tools to help them with their unpaid work. These tools relied on access to the reddit api.

Then reddit charged ridiculous prices for api access, which would mean the apps would need money, so mods would need to pay to do their unpaid work or use the inferior reddit interface.

Given these choices, some mods decided to leave instead.

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[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

Reddit used to have a free and open API. This allowed 3rd parties to develop apps / interfaces for the site. These apps helped everything from making the site usable for some with accessibility issues to blocking ads to providing a customized interface to tons of other things.

Generally this was done by taking the API feed and re-engineering it to allow the desired presentation.

In a move to make the company more attractive to investors before going public, Reddit changed that API to a paid model. This meant any developer of those 3rd party apps would now have to pay a not insignificant in most cases fee to continue their access to Reddit. As such, most apps closed down and a very small portion of us long time Redditors migrated to Lemmy/ the fediverse.

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