Yes I know, it was just pretty funny that the first comment I saw was about a paid 3rd party app not paying for access, when this was one of reddit’s “official” reasons for the changes.

I think lemmy instances should be able to charge for API acce… wait a minute

They aren’t going after the users, they are suing the ISP. The comments are about the ISP’s leniency towards torrenting, so they are trying to find the users to validate their claims and add the comments as evidence to the case.