<story><title>Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/140b6q6/rlifeprotips_will_be_going_dark_from_june_1214_in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>I wish they would just let Reddit die.&lt;p&gt;I hate it so much. I&amp;#x27;m tired of ecosystems.&lt;p&gt;We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control.&lt;p&gt;Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.&lt;p&gt;God I hope Reddit sticks to this API nonsense and kills themselves in the process.&lt;p&gt;Part of me wants this to happen to Hacker News too. This community sucks, but for different reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>computershit</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m tired of ecosystems.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Bring back the 90s. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.&lt;p&gt;Not sure if you remember the 90s like I do. The percentage of people sharing their own content on their own terms was dwarfed by that of content hosted on &amp;#x27;ecosystems&amp;#x27;. In fact, I&amp;#x27;d assert that the path to accomplishing the same is far less steep now compared to then.</text></comment>
<story><title>Popular Subreddits are organizing a strike on 2023-06-12 b/c high API prices</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/140b6q6/rlifeprotips_will_be_going_dark_from_june_1214_in/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>GenericDev</author><text>I wish they would just let Reddit die.&lt;p&gt;I hate it so much. I&amp;#x27;m tired of ecosystems.&lt;p&gt;We need to get away from content farms. Get away from shitty monetization driven efforts. Get away from shitty people moderating communities without giving members any locus of control.&lt;p&gt;Bring back the 90s web. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.&lt;p&gt;God I hope Reddit sticks to this API nonsense and kills themselves in the process.&lt;p&gt;Part of me wants this to happen to Hacker News too. This community sucks, but for different reasons.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>urda</author><text>Today&amp;#x27;s reddit mods are the same as Digg&amp;#x27;s power user&amp;#x27;s back in the day. It&amp;#x27;s an open secret that a few dozen or so individuals control the top 100 or so subreddits, and calling that fact out is often met with site wide bans.&lt;p&gt;Reddit died a long time ago, and it&amp;#x27;s time we let it go.</text></comment>