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or maybe we are past the excess of a 0% interest rate environment and people are now expected to pay for shit.

That sounds like a reasonable factor on all of this.

Lock API access for apps behind reddit gold and now your power users are happy. You wouldn't even need to hold their hand when they set it up. I'd be willing to pay for reddit to some degree.

Because this isn't what they did, I suspect third-party apps are just collateral damage in a policy aimed at gating access to reddit content: from LLM developers, AI researchers, and anybody who can derive value from it.

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