Disagree with that. What are they going to do without moderators then? Bots? Employees? Reddit is now going to realize just how valuable all that free labour they were getting is.

They could choose to make the fees in line with other websites. They could simply make third party apps use premium. I would be happy to keep using Apollo and have Reddit premium if that was the issue. The fact is, they are doing this to kill them off. It's corporate greed plain and simple. If they wanted this to be resolved, it would have been behind closed doors and never saw the light of day.

That is true, do they not understand that the entire thing is built on the community? If you get rid of that, you have nothing. Any fool can spin up a clone.

I mean, how do they think this is going to go? They are just going to get new mods right away, who will work for free, and basically have no mod tools at all now that third party apps are dead. Literally, what is their plan to manage these subreddits? They just fired a bunch of people as well. I really hope the IPO is worth it for them, because they are destroying one of the Internets most important sites (historically and in practice).

I really wish there was a place that everyone agreed to go to. One of the main things I loved about Reddit was the hive. If we all go different places, it wont be the same. It. Wont. Be. The. Same.