Have you guys seen this? It's a campaign blaming the people that dare to want to use 3rd party apps. Don't forget, most of them are gone. There's no defending about why 3rd party apps are just better. Nope. It's the exact same as the covid propaganda, but proreddit this time.
Removing your own comments is being called, " destroying data".
More info
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/149b6ss/a_partial_reopening_and_our_next_moves/
I believe this is the main reason they are ditching the API access. Ad-Revenue.
That and I wonder how many neural nets were trained using their api. They might as well get in on that money.
Who knows, maybe it is part of a longer plan. Get rid of the free moderators so they can be replaced by a new and improved reddit safety team lmao.
Good riddance, the mods like hfx redditor who work at "online brand awareness" companies needs the boot.
I do hope this create a kinda of internet renaissance, where we see the revival of small sites/forums again.