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Good job reddit, you’ve probably lost a good chunk of daily users
Honestly doubt they care. Some may actually quit but lots will just move to the official app. It might be painful for them in the short term but from their POV it's just the cost of doing business.
They want us all to migrate to official app because they have better control over ads, making users pay to remove ads, and even selling them NFTs and other things. They purposely are charging exorbitant amounts for API access to push users to official vanilla client.
This is the obvious truth and considering the implications and coercion mixed with the monopoly in the specific area that reddit holds since digg suicided like a decade+ ago… what I’m saying is in a sane world/country a court would go “uh. No. Can’t do that.” And block this attempt, jail all the top reddit executives and illiterate Huffy? Well. I can’t type what would happen to that goose-stepping Nazi fuck, but let’s just say it involves lead. If you think I’m being ridiculous then you’re entirely too complacent and the reason this type of dogshit keeps rolling over us. “It’s just a website” and Huffy is just a Nazi. At least I get use from this shithole website. What has he ever provided to the world besides the humor of mocking his illiteracy + enabling all the worst of the worst aspects of this shithole while stomping on any bright spots? (The answer is nothing. He’s a worthless worm and parasite)
What the hell is even that?
that was a wild ride, but I'm here for it.
🫱🏼🫲🏽
Why don't you tell us how you really feel
and don't forget about our data they want to collect
I think you mean Official Shit client.
which is why widespread organizing works
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Restore AllHide UnarchivedYeah it needs to be permanent until resolved
They'll just remove the mods and replace them with random people who will gladly suck their dick for free if they get mod powers. The subs will open back up like nothing happened.
That's the problem with this kind of protest on this kind of site. I fully support it, don't get me wrong, but the admins can - at any time - remove all the mods and re-open the subs with scab mods. Everything short of users leaving the site is essentially toothless, because mods can only shutter/make the subs private as long as they are mods. Once they're removed, it's out of their hands.
Let them try
Mods wouldn’t like that. They can’t lose their job.
The initial 48 hours was a show of solidarity. New information since definitely adds sufficient justification for a long-standing blackout in protest.
man these crybabies really going to make my reddit boring for 2 days, for nothing
Over a social media platform? We can’t even organize for our actual human rights. I’ll either quit and move on to the next one or bare with it.
They want to move everyone to the official app so they can hound them with ads to purchase premium, awards, NFT profile pictures, etc. They clearly think this potential exodus of users is worth it in the long run.
The official app is essentially unusable. I’ll use old.reddit or leave.
I hate to agree but seeing our sub stat, our sub grown during then pandemic, meaning they are used to the new reddit layout and probably use the official app. only 6 users out of thousands use old.reddit and only a few knows/use the 3rd party app or don't care at all.
a lot of people are already using the official app.
Yup... they go from making no money on 3rd party app users, to making some money on those users when they move to the official app... even if 50% quit its still a net gain $-wise, even though it will degrade the quality of reddit even further (its been sliding slowly for years).
This the most rational and realistic take if seen on all these doom and gloom threads. People said the same shit when they banned popular subreddits and started adding more site rules. A small portion left but most stayed. It also drew in more advertisers which is all they actually care about . Banning 3rd party apps that don’t view ads will likely attract more advertisers. Which again is all the actually care about as ads are money, and making money is the sole reason this platform and all other social media platforms exist today. They were never friends.
Yup people will leave in the short term and they'll hit a "bottom" then new users will have no choice but to use the official app.... profit long
This is 100% shitty on their part, but let's face it, what other websites are there to use as an alternative to reddit?
I'm only here because old forums I used to use a decade ago shut down. There's no where else to go
I'm only here because my buddies and I stopped using IRC in 2010. There is always something new and shiny on the internet. Discord came out of nowhere. I could see Discord really getting a lot more users and more activity in general
More new users to 4chan, redditors gonna be seething at imageboard culture. Will be funny to see. Legit there is no other places most redditors will go, they'll cry but stay here all the while complaining about reddit
imagebord culture…that’s not a thing. Blatant racism mixed with gore and hentai isn’t culture.
NPC behavior and le edgy, fight-the-system (but aligned with the system) political takes aren’t culture either.
4ch not that different from Reddit, instead of subs you just have boards. B & POL are the biggest offender of that. A while back 4chan seperated into 2 sites basically, nsfw & sfw. Over the more recent years the mods & users have been doing better over banning & deleting the users/content from the more problematic boards. Most of those users are boomers & incels from The_Donald anyways.
old.reddit until it gets shut down for good.
There’s nothing that will truly fill the niche. But Reddit is just a time waster app, and there’s lots of those. If I’m not scrolling Reddit, I’ll scroll something else.
But third party apps are zero revenue for them, right? They probably don’t care that much.
I just don’t understand why they couldn’t figure out a way to do revenue sharing with third parties, and instead went full Twitter.
EDIT: If third party apps do pay for api use then yeah, pricing them out is super dumb, and there is no excuse for this.
i imagine it has to do with users generating content on third party apps that gets engaged with on the main app and site. if those users truly do leave, the traffic will go down. probably not by much in the long-term, but i guess we’ll have to see.
I'm not an expert, but I do believe that reddit charges third party apps based on how much data streams through them. There was a very informative post at the top of /r/all earlier that explains everything way better than I can.
They don't care about daily users they can't monetize.
They could easily have monetized them with more fair pricing.
reddit with no 3rd party apps = losing many many active powerusers
Ive been using reddit for 13 years now (July 2010) and after Apollo goes dark I’m DONE with reddit
my original account is /u/In2TheDay .. many longterm users change accounts so they don’t have too much information tied to one account.
I suspect you were not around for Digg, because I was one of the many that left the site in its exodus. All it took was simply a redesign for me and millions of others to leave the site.
99% of my reddit usage is done on Apollo. I love the app and I use reddit as much as I do nowadays because of the app. I enjoy the content on Reddit but I would not be habitually tapping on an Apollo icon anymore. It may turn into a once-a-month thing to sort top posts by month on some subreddits and then im off again.
Again..reddit is only as popular as it is because everyone left Digg and went to reddit because of a UI change
I’ll probably just use Artifact now
I know the number isn’t gonna be very big but 0.5% is a stretch, gotta be more than that
“Why should we care about users that don’t generate us any $$$?” - Reddit.
We do thought, just not as much as they would like
Sadly no. All third party apps only make up maybe 20% of reddits user base.
Doubtful they care as they’re not using the official app that they can track usage of