Rabbithole

Cool, thanks for explaining.

I doubt they’d be bothered too much by impacting the first part though, they’ve shown to be entirely willing to lose userbase in order to force their app, so retention probably doesn’t interest them there if people start using the RSS feed as a 3rd party app.

I think the crux of it would come more down to whether or not they want to deal with the potential SEO hit that could come from getting rid of it.

Should be interesting to watch how they handle it, at any rate.

On a personal note, I’m pretty much done with Reddit after how they’ve acted recently, but watching them running around in the road, trying to play with the busses is genuinely fascinating.

Wrong, fuck this guy: :)

Interesting, what does Reddit even use an RSS feed for? I’m trying to figure out why they’d even have that still going today and coming up empty.

That’s cool and everything, but if it’s scraping the site they’ll block that shit straight away, they’ve already said as much and scraper blocking is relatively easy to do these days.

Good luck though.

I get what you’re saying, sure. But I don’t see how they’ll remotely end up less pissed off if you take the situation as it already is and then revoke their “rights” to use social media.

This is just going to make a lot of really angry people a lot more angry.

Plus, I can guarantee you that people actually organizing on social media will immediately switch to some non-blocked online means of doing so. Trying to handle that would be an impossible game of whack-a-mole.

Ha, so he’s actively trying to throw petrol on the bonfire to put it out now.