Third party apps were always probably going to be killed as they couldn’t monetize those users and it’s likely a large chunk of their heavy users. Reddit’s ad revenue is garbage compared to it’s reported users. They definitely could have tried to be a bit more diplomatic about it though.
yeah, agreed - but this is why I call into question the whole business proposition of “corporate centralized social”. it just reeks a chaotic and disproportionate power imbalance between users (who are both product and producer) and the business interests looking for maximum extracted value.
these structures seem doomed to almost certain failure when the product/producer…
retains some level of critical thinking
experiences a black swan event
has an attractive alternative platform
perhaps reddit execs had already evaluated everything and decided “this is fine”… I am just personally happy to be rid of one more abusive corporate relationship in my life.
Third party apps were always probably going to be killed as they couldn’t monetize those users and it’s likely a large chunk of their heavy users. Reddit’s ad revenue is garbage compared to it’s reported users. They definitely could have tried to be a bit more diplomatic about it though.
yeah, agreed - but this is why I call into question the whole business proposition of “corporate centralized social”. it just reeks a chaotic and disproportionate power imbalance between users (who are both product and producer) and the business interests looking for maximum extracted value.
these structures seem doomed to almost certain failure when the product/producer…
perhaps reddit execs had already evaluated everything and decided “this is fine”… I am just personally happy to be rid of one more abusive corporate relationship in my life.