Reddit's API Wall Rebuilds the Community It Was Supposed to Protect

The most revealing source in this collection is the developer who does not know there was a protest. The front-end course project published in late March uses Reddit's JSON API as a teaching resource ^[3]. The author asks for feedback on Git workflow and deployment, not on ethical data access. The 2023 pricing changes are not part of this developer's mental model because they were not in the room when the decisions were made. For this cohort, the API is a technical interface with no history — and therefore no…