Lots of subreddits going dark to protest their API changes. What do you think will happen to Reddit?

- nothing; just a loud vocal minority care
- they’ll reverse course
- they’ll go the way of Digg: beginning of the end for them

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

Another valid take on this topic I came across

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My takeaway from that is that the advertising model for social media is a threat to a free and open internet. Calling the API strategy "legacy" is backwards. It's the ad model that needs to die.

imho you end up with this https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

maybe this all boils down to subsidizing the cost to virtually free for growth, and then contracting to the userbase that should have actually existed. 

then again, is there intellectual/cultural capital that is misperceived as ex post gratis?