servers cost money too. nothing is free.

server costs money and reddit is not charity either. If they provide a good product that you use everyday, then why cant they charge for the api?

Yes, I think most of us (Reddit users) understand that Reddit needs to make money. But you cannot rollout a critical pivot like that one lying and destroying people that has help you grow and thinking your users are stupid.

That's were I put the limit with Twitter, and it's were I'm putting it with Reddit too.

They certainly can (and probably should) charge for the api. The problems we see now are the communications surrounding it, the price and the timeline.

They certainly can and its their right, but it's clear that they are working in bad faith and want to just close all 3rd party access. Their API costs are orders of magnitude more than any business out there.

For not being a charity they seem to gladly accept a lot of free volunteer work and free content created for them.

I'd say in terms of value to the platform they got a great deal.

> reddit is not charity either

People aren’t expecting them to be. If the pricing they had announced was even remotely reasonable this protest would not have happened.

google has made the lives of people easier by providing free services like youtube, maps, email and a few others. They have the right to put ads on their stuff and make revenue out of that. what this guy is actually bad for people. imagine if people all of a sudden start using invidious and stop using youtube then there will not be youtube in this future. A lot of people feel the same.