So first of all, I’d like to get my personal view out there that I do disagree with the actions that Reddit has taken with their API recently. As a private business and developer of their own software they have every right to do it, but that doesn’t make it the right thing to do. I’ve seen very little to indicate this will affect most users generally, but the most prominently affected groups are the blind and disabled communities who apparently had third party apps to help them use the site. The fact that this business move on Reddit’s part will most negatively affect them makes it extra crappy.

THAT. BEING. SAID.

This massive protest of locking down and restricting subs is infuriatingly stupid and ineffective. I get it, everyone hates Reddit and wants it to fail, but this affects the internet at large a lot more than it does Reddit themselves. They can force the doors open any time they want on this stuff. The only ones being affected are those who are trying to Google for answers on a topic they care about; you’re punishing society at large for a protest over something 99% of the people Googling your group won’t understand even if you preach it to them. It’s comparable to standing in the road to block people from getting to work so you can shout at them about some cause that has nothing to do with them.

It’s not going to get you heard and validated. It just makes everyone hate you.

Signed,

User# 98237929837 that just wants to know how to set up a FOSS app or two.