I don't think the API cost will kill reddit but I think that this is the first of many changes coming to try and boost revenue. I have a feeling that old.reddit is next and then probably a lot more ads. It'll be the culmination of all the changes, each one frustrating different groups of users.
@pinkraisons agreed this won't kill Reddit per se, but it's a death knell.
As you point out, it's likely only the first in a series of revenue generation initiatives.
Why you would start with the one that alienates a lot of power users and mods is anyone's guess; I suppose it all comes down to ads.
Welp, I've used Reddit more than I care to admit for over a decade, and I'm gone now.
@majkeli it feels like young Reddit,or maybe that's the rose-tinted specs...
@Magrath
Here's hoping! It's the niche/hobby subs that made R special. It'll take a while for the fragmented instances to conglomerate, if they ever do.
Sad that things went down like this. I’m glad to be here though. I think federated content should be the future, that way we don’t build up another Reddit. The content should belong to the community, not the site admins who don’t generate it.
I'm hoping that as federation comes back online, we'll be able to (somewhat tediously) add /c/'s and /m/'s from some of the other instances to get more content without leaving "home base".
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