Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 3locked

alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgmod to Technology@beehaw.org – 190 points –

hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout today, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! Thanks!

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I accidentally posted this outside the megathread — reposting here to help make life easier for the mods:

https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309

Reddit attempting to offer free API usage for moderator tools (but not 3rd Party Apps)

They've now added that "non-commercial" qualifier to accessibility apps and mod tools. So they're totally cool with 3rd parties adding value to their platform. As long as all of the revenue resulting from that unpaid work goes straight to Reddit.

I like how they state the following:

As of July 1, 2023, we are increasing the API limits for our free API usage from 60 to 100 Queries Per Minute for those using OAuth authentication.

They're making it sound like they're increasing the rate limit, whereas they're actually changing it from 60 queries per user per application per minute to 100 queries per application per minute. So if you had a 3rd party app with 1000 users, you'd have 60 queries each minute for every single user, now all those 1000 users will have to share 100 queries each minute (so that'd be 1 query per user every 10 minutes), unless the app developer is willing to pay up.

This is now going to end up costing them more money cause they'll have to police the usage of thier api with all these exceptions lol

Well not necessarily, you just give the mod tools a different api to use. It'd be simple, but you'd still be restricting some stuff for api tools