The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit
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“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”
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I want to know more about this, i haven't heard of this yet.
This appears at the top of the page until you dismiss it (at least for me): https://i.imgur.com/Uo3t2TI.jpg
Here’s what it links to: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/16693988535309
Yesterday they were linking to some much more blatant propaganda/history whitewash, here's the link: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/apifacts
I like how it says their "updated" API rate limits but doesn't mention when those rules went into effect or how much warning they gave developers.
Spoiler: the answers are "very recently" and "not even a month".
I got a bunch of that propaganda the other day even when signing in on old.reddit.