You have to remember that APIs were used massively by third party apps users.

I don’t see a reason to attribute the API related drop more to automation than users stopping browsing reddit because third party app ban.

Yep, this has become reeeaaally visible since a week or two.

I used to regularly browse reddit without being logged in, it was a way to experience the default reddit experience for my region, see what people from my country would discuss as many French speaking subs were included.

I could scroll a couple of pages worth of moderately interesting and quite diverse content.

Now it’s mostly garbage, I barely reach the end of the first page. The diversity and the quality has gone way done, it’s like a distilled facebookesq version of summer reddit.

I requested it for all my accounts at the beginning of June and still waiting too.

I don’t have to sue them, in France if someone fucks with my data I can create a case on the CNIL website (the National Comission of IT and freedom) and tell on the idiots.

Then the CNIL takes them on, and brings out the hammer of the law if needed.

Me and the boys are synergic.