• moon_matter@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Meanwhile all of the repost bots can post and comment on each other’s threads keeping the Reddit server humming away.

    How are they going to do that when the API changes hit? The API changes affect all third party interactions with Reddit unless you scrape their HTML or do some type of browser automation. I’m going to assume that 99% of developers are using the REST API since there was no reason to do otherwise. That means mobile apps, bots, third party tools and probably even some browser extensions are all going to go dark.