Who is Louis Rossman?
It's a bit weird that someone could be famous for his strong ethics, but just watch some of his videos and you'll get it. The guy is relentless in both demanding ethics from others as reflecting on his own actions. It's really inspiring.
edit: If you want an example of this, here's a video where he apologizes for something he did, and in his apology he plays a recording of a conversation with his lawyer where his lawyer recommends to do the thing, and he relents, which he later regrets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGd_Ixy9Mzc You don't have to watch the whole thing, you'll see his character come through in the first minute of the video.
I'm not sure why his appeal to authority should matter for most people.
There are plenty of reasons to leave Reddit.
The Right to Repair stuff gives him an interesting perspective on how big tech operates, which is relevant to the Reddit thing.
I love him for the right to repair and his troubleshooting lives are interesting, but I've stopped watching most of his videos because the format of "dude films himself while reading an article " is really boring and a waste of time.
You can still have a 3rd party app, and it can still use the API. You just pay for it.
Right to repair is because you cannot buy a 3rd party screen, and you cannot use it. You have to have Apple/John Deere/etc do it.
Yes, but can is not will.
The practical effect of this pricing will mean that almost all 3rd party apps for reddit will die, and Reddit won't get significant revenue from this change. Management knows all this, which means they are in fact trying to kill 3rd party apps, not salvage API operating costs.
Specially the users should like that. It is making their products last much longer...