But on a little more serious note, I doubt this is on purpose. This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform, there is a LOT of users that just want to keep doomscrolling Reddit and in all honesty don't give a spez(fuck) about what's going on with the protests.

But... if this is on purpose...

Strange decision to say the least.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This would look really bad for the credibility of the platform

From what I've been following, they haven't been too concerned about this since at least a few weeks ago

[–] andrew@radiation.party 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outright telling active partners that they won't help them identify inefficient interactions with the first-party API was a great look.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah - in fairness, they weren't getting paid to, but there are plenty of examples to pick from.

[–] Sponholz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know and agree with you on that.

But for the majority of the userbase, one thing is to have some of their favorite subreddits joining a protest, the other is having their whole experience affected.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Agree - couldn't resist the snark

[–] dimspace@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

u/Spez will just put the blame on Christian again (Apollo’s dev).

100%.. "malicious code in a 3rd party app led effectively to a DDOS attack on reddit.. this is why we must close the API to only allow select approved apps"