Reddit API Access Is Quietly Throttling the Next Wave of Developers

Reddit's API access system has no architectural distinction between the developer building a private app for personal use and the enterprise scraping operation. The same application form, the same approval queue, and the same rejection rate applies to both. A user who pays for an Apple developer license to build a client for themselves and a partner reports being rejected — the same fate as a commercial data broker ^[2]. The platform treats all third-party API consumers as equivalent threats, and the consequence is that the least threatening use case…