Comment by dotnet00

X shut down API access in Feb 2023, Reddit shut theirs down at the end of June of the same year. Just barely 6 months apart.

Furthermore, while X had also only announced this in February, Reddit announced their API shutdown just 2 months later in April.

And, to further add to that, X was pretty upfront that they think they have access to a large and powerful dataset in X and didn't want to give it out for free. Reddit used very similar wording when announcing their changes.