> I find this a strange stance, given that most of the people actually participating in the protest are unpaid volunteers. So I don't see how that can be considered a "commercial dispute", to be honest.
The commercial dispute is between Reddit and API Consumers. it has nothing to do with mods or the users. No-mater how certain you may be who is in the right and who is in the wrong, the most certain thing here is that there is great part of the commuinty who are being held hostage and used as tool for commercial disupute that has nothing to do with them or this subredit. To be clear I am not accusing the mods of Golang subredit for being in a powertrip (because initally it did not come from them) but other users who try to force their narrow worldview onto others. If this was an ethics issue, depnding on how clear it is there might be ground for protests, commercial disputes should never be ground for holding even a fraction of the users hostage. On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 10:43:36 PM UTC+2 Axel Wagner wrote: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 6:53 PM Eltjon Metko <eme...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Protests like this (temporary) never make sense, they only create >> inconvinience for users while reddit will just have to ride it out. > > > Note that the common hypothesis is that there is a reason reddit is so > urgently pushing through the API charges, why they are urgently trying to > shut off the protest and why they are *particularly* urgent about shutting > down the protest of setting subreddits to NSFW: That they consider doing an > IPO in the near future. In that case, they can't really "ride it out". They > are likely pretty heavily interested in looking good to investors *right > now*. > > >> This is a commercial dispute nothing more and everyone that acts like a >> crusader in this case is simply in a power trip. >> > > I find this a strange stance, given that most of the people actually > participating in the protest are unpaid volunteers. So I don't see how that > can be considered a "commercial dispute", to be honest. > > >> >> On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 5:01:29 PM UTC+2 drc...@google.com wrote: >> >>> Have you considered moving to another platform, either Lemmy or Kbin? >>> (He says, not having completed his own move of the benchmarking bot to >>> botsin.space). >>> On Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 1:51:10 PM UTC-4 Robert Engels wrote: >>> >>>> I’m fairly certain Reddit will license those tools for moderators use. >>>> That is not what they are trying to prevent. >>>> >>>> > On Jun 24, 2023, at 8:39 AM, Wojciech S. Czarnecki <oh...@fairbe.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Dnia 2023-06-23, o godz. 23:50:32 >>>> > Amnon <amn...@gmail.com> napisał(a): >>>> > >>>> >> Sorry, but I have been away and missed the context. >>>> > >>>> >> What is the protest about? >>>> > >>>> > Reddit's decision to sink all good free tools that allow people >>>> (mods) to work several hours per day >>>> > keeping their communities free of propaganda and scams. >>>> > >>>> >> >>>> >> What has redit changed? >>>> > >>>> > APIs that were free to access by third parties will be priced as >>>> gold. >>>> > >>>> >> Thanks >>>> > yw. >>>> > >>>> > P.S. >>>> > It is worth mentioning that Reddit *has* a good reason to close APIs >>>> that are abused by A"I" businesses. >>>> > Just there is no will to make such changes robust, IMO, as it would >>>> cost. It seems to me that current Reddit's >>>> > brass has no faintest idea how many $millions monthly mod's work is >>>> worth. >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Wojciech S. Czarnecki >>>> > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "golang-nuts" group. >>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>> send an email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >>>> > To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/20230624153919.43160eba%40xmint. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b45472ed-b150-4752-bc5b-7158e152dafan%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b45472ed-b150-4752-bc5b-7158e152dafan%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/4f9951e1-93c5-4d3e-a56e-f1444a1896dbn%40googlegroups.com.
