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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
  1. He did plenty of monetization on the app, and made good money with it with volume that doesn't exist on Vision Pro. He never said anything implying apps don't deserve to be paid for.

  2. In literally every discussion he ever had about the API pricing change, he said that he entirely supported their need to monetize the API. His issues were not any sort of issue with the premise of the API changes. It was the specific nature of the API changes very obviously being for the sole purpose of making using the API to make an app impossible, when the app ecosystem was the entire reason Reddit was successful to begin with.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You said I lied and I didn't. Retract that.

My assertions are consistent from comment 1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely not. Your statement does not have anything in common with the truth.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Quote the exact words in my first comment that are untruthful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All of it. He was never an advocate for software being free or against the right of companies to monetize their API in any context. He was against a specific company using "monetizing" their API as an excuse to make it impossible for third party apps to exist.

His position has not changed in any way and there is nothing that is in any way consistent between any of his statements or behavior.