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Yeah I get that and understand that, while I use Apollo exclusively, I’m in the minority and the people trying to profit off Reddit dgaf about me freeloading.
BUT… the Reddit engine is driven by users posting 3rd party content, all moderated by users. No one is getting paid for actually providing the content or moderation. The platform isn’t really creating much value here.
If the owners of the platform kill off the moderation boots and other moderation tools, I don’t understand why any moderator would keep doing that shit for free. It will ruin the site quickly.
Either the platform owners find a way to permit API use for mods without opening a backdoor for 3rd party apps, or this is going to become the next Digg.
Only issue is that there is no direct competitor to Reddit today, whereas Reddit was always 1b to Digg’s 1a.
They do the same thing with the mobile site. They've made it completely unusable in most mobile browsers. You almost immediately get prompted to open it in the app, and it's very pushy about it. You can request the desktop version, which works fine, but at least in the ios chrome you can't set it to load the desktop version by default. I've heard you can in firefox, but that means switching my default browser, just to defeat Reddit's anti-user tactics.
It's very, very transparently just to drive traffic to their app so they have more control. My solution was a third party app. Once that's gone I'll just stop coming at all on the phone, which is easily 90 percent of my time on reddit.
I hope potential investors know they are buying a product that is only in business based on the goodwill of the userbase, and that goodwill has been poisoned through incompetence time and time again.