The European Union’s new Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a complex, many-legged beast, but at root, it is a regulation that aims to make it easier for the public to control the technology they use and rely on. One DMA rule forces the powerful “gatekeeper” tech companies to allow third-party app stores...
  • Maple Engineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1422·
    6 months ago

    There’s a rule banning “self-preferencing.” That’s when platforms push their often inferior, in-house products and hide superior products made by their rivals.

    Spaz isn’t going to like this.

    • stephan@feddit.deEnglish
      32·
      6 months ago

      He wouldn’t if it applied to him. Unfortunately, reddit is not a gatekeeper in the sense of the DMA and due to its management it’s also unlikely to ever reach that position :)

      • Maple Engineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        You’re right. Hopefully they will expand the rules to include non-gatekeeper services like Reddit once the rule is in effect.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Unless the saga continues, they didn’t “hide” the competition, they paywalled their access.

      There’s nothing wrong, per se, with charging access to the API. Where they went wrong was setting an exorbitant price. That was clearly anti-competitive. They knew the pricing they set wouldn’t be sustainable to any third party developers. Then he started shit talking the Apollo developer…

      • purplemonkeymad@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Well it may or may not be wrong. One of the measures would be, can Reddit afford the price if it also had pay for the same access? If the answer is no, then it might be considered preferential treatment to their own app. However ianal so there could be a carve out for that.