[choudharism]

This is a false dichotomy - no one is protesting for a free lunch. The vast majority of app developers and users are okay with incurring a fee (and many solutions have been proposed - for example, users needing to subscribe to reddit's premium tier to use 3rd party apps) - reddit management has shown in their conduct (refusal to listen to users / potential customers, applying changes with a staggeringly short notice) that they are negotiating in bad faith.

[keneda7]

So I would agree with about reddit management especially how they treated the Apollo dev but this thread is on a piece about why APIs for content sites should be free. It is not about reddit managements conduct or lack of common sense. There is still a free tier with reddit's API. It is rate limited to 100 request a minute per API key. So if you are using reddit for your own personal use, it is very rare you are going to need more than 100 apis requests a minute.

[pessimizer]

What if they don't want to be in that business?