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It's clear that they don't want any of the third-party apps to pay them a cent. They want the third-party apps gone, and the users to move to the official app where they can be directly monetised by Reddit. There was never going to be a deal; if Reddit was interested in one they would have approached this differently.



Then why not just shut down their public API?


Optics, both are functionally shutting it down, but one claims to add value while the other removes options.




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