Reddit temporarily ban subreddit and user advertising rival platform

Discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36215914

Turns out the user was spamming. Shocking, I know.

"reddit won't let me spam! Reddit is the problem", oh... Well at least they made their view of what the internet is to them.

People on mastodon want to cancel Lemmy too for some reason they struggle to articulate.

hot tea, already.

But what's their angle anyway?

Too many tankies is the argument, most likely. But from the few arguments I’ve seen, it really does seem to be driven by the virality that purity and tone policing can acquire.

I still don't understand why people are trying to poop on Reddit so bad lately. Anyone care to try to explain? Everything I've heard so far has been ill-founded and I mostly don't care to research it...

Api cost have have seen a very steep increase in cost. To the point that most third party apps will likely give up.

Including some where it just feels wrong : app to help blind people use the site for instance.