Reddit is under no obligation to find these terms acceptable. Moderators absolutely can moderate without the API.
Practically, and literally impossible. There's CP and other illegal material being posted in these subs every second. Without API access, you have to have dozens of moderators at all times checking every single incoming post.
It's like these people are coming in driving cars and Reddit management is offering a sturdy pair of walking shoes to try to keep up with them.
C-level management seems to be an insular royal court far removed from the actual mechanics of what makes their company run and not familiar with where the hard work is done and what's the value lost in getting rid of it. It's destructively hierarchical and makes things undirected, disjointed and clashing.
Incoherent executions and incredulous decisions abound. The current practices are clearly idiotic.
Oh well? That is a job for the police to deal with, not an unpaid moderator with a hobby. If you want to help out in your free time, cool, but beyond that, who cares?
We’ll see if they are so irreplaceable as they claim.
A lot of the voices and mods that are most prominent are saying that it is Spez that is actively damaging the company.
Christian, Apollo's author, gives a good write up of the recent developments:
https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/14dkqrw/i_want_t...
One thing missing from this is that obviously reddit is seeing OpenAI and others training AIs on their data and taking the wrong lessons from it. They're hitting the wrong people with misplaced understanding of where the value lies and how to capture it.
Instead Spez seems to see Elon's taking the sword to Twitter as a role model, which I think misunderstands the structural damage that Elon has done to the Twitter community.
The community sees ‘the damage Elon has done to the community’. Corporate sees a company bleeding money being turned around. Regardless if it’s going to work out, investors aren’t going to be happy if their investments have turned into a great community and a monetary loss. It’s not a charity. So they appreciate someone coming in and putting a stop to the charity work and trying to start making money.
That’s why the people that matter, the people with a lot of money, put literal billions of dollars on the line so Musk could buy Twitter. While the people that don’t really matter, the people that block ads, the people that don’t pay, the people that don’t want to play along with the plan to make money, are ignored.
Money talks, bs walks.