Reddit is fighting for its soul. Many users are in revolt over API pricing changes that will shut down some of the most popular third-party Reddit apps, and they’re furious at CEO Steve Huffman after last week’s AMA that made it clear the platform wouldn’t budge. Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision to force AI companies training on Reddit’s data to pony up, but they’re also wiping out some beloved Reddit apps, and thousands of subreddits have gone dark for days in protest.
On Thursday, Reddit offered me an interview with Huffman (who goes by u/spez on Reddit). I’ve already published one story from my conversation about how Reddit was apparently never designed to support third-party apps. But here is a lightly edited transcript of the entire interview — which, at times, was contentious.
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Spewing out bunch of bullshit . Fuck you u/ spez
Him trying to spin that the few people that stayed on the subs are vocal about not supporting the blackout, and ignoring that they people are supporting it are staying off of the subs is just willful ignorance.
He also just has no understanding that a big part of this is Redditors realizing that Reddit is a corperation like every other corporation they hate, and him pushing without listening to his peasants will only make them hate it more.
