[Muehe]

> Third party moderation tools are staying. They're beneficial to Reddit, of course they're going to keep giving them free access.

This turns out to be much more of a mixed bag in reality. Many of the third party moderation tools are built into the third party mobile apps, which will not get free access.

In the AMA OP [0] they listed a few projects that will get free access, some moderation tools among it, but even just requiring registration for such tools will have a massive chilling effect on the existing and future ecosystem.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...