The war for Reddit, new MacBook Air, and Meta's Twitter competitor

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of suddenly private subreddits: 01:45 - David Pierce and Nilay Patel call up Christian Selig, who runs the popular Reddit app Apollo, to talk about the changes to the platform that have infuriated Redditors, and what it means for the future of Reddit. Reddit’s API updates: all the news about changes that have infuriated Redditors More than 6,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s API changes Apollo’s developer on Reddit’s new API changes, and why users revolted 46:15 - Then, David talks with deputy editor Alex Heath about Meta’s reaction to the new Apple Vision Pro headset, and that new Twitter competitor the company is launching. Here’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks about Apple’s Vision Pro Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots 1:09:54 - After that, senior reviewer Monica Chin joins the show to discuss her review of Apple’s new 15-inch Macbook Air. Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: exactly what was asked for 1:33:24 - Keep listening for this week’s Vergecast hotline question. www.babylist.com https://www.youtube.com/c/DadVerb Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of suddenly private subreddits.
0:07.1	I'm your friend David Pierce and I am coming to you from Inside My Metacrest 2, where I
0:12.2	am playing Population 1, which is kind of like the VR version of Fortnite.
0:16.9	And like Fortnite, you can't just pause the game because it's a live battle royale.
0:22.3	But this is the Vergecast, the show must go on, you know what I mean?
0:25.6	So here we go and hopefully nobody finds me crouching on top of this window.
0:30.4	Anyway we have a super fun show today.
0:33.0	We're going to talk about all of the chaos happening on Reddit right now with Christian
0:37.0	Sealig, the developer in the middle of the whole fight.
0:39.8	Then we're going to talk about Meta's reaction to the new Apple Vision Pro headset and
0:44.5	that new Twitter competitor, the company is launching.
0:47.3	After that we're going to talk about the new 15 inch MacBook Air with Monica Chin who's
0:50.8	been testing it and I think just got the other Max in to test too.
0:54.3	Lots going on this week y'all.
0:55.7	All that is coming in just a sec.
0:57.7	But first I got to figure out how to jump off this windmill without dying and I think
1:01.4	somebody just found me.
1:02.7	Here we go.
1:03.7	This is the Vergecast, we'll be right back.
1:09.6	Support for this podcast comes from Slack and they're looking to help make you and your
1:13.4	team work better.
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