have no clue what you're trying to say. lmao
not going to bother continuing. have a good one.
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not going to bother continuing. have a good one.
Reddit is your typical super fun and freestyle social media that doesn't turn a buck easily - it's insane it's gone on this long without a solid, growing business model.
Unfortunately this is the reason why third-parties like Apollo and Stellar feel the heat when the source turns to a higher access/licence fee to generate cash - see what Twitter's API fee hike did for third-parties like Hootsuite a short while back. This is effectively going to kill them, even if they try to raise their price to just break even.
In this economy, all that's left is to have another egomaniac billionaire buy out Reddit and turn it into a big mess.
Due to the general decline of the internet, we've hit a disturbing situation to where the only way to find accurate, not-SEOed-to-hell information is by using Google to search a topic, filtering for Reddit posts.
If Reddit dies I'm not sure anyone's going to be able to find anything at this point.
the UX from the $8/mo that the majority gets is keeping the lights on. that is a good thing.
you think Google search would still be alive if it weren't for sponsored links at the top of the first page of your search?
We need to get away from these companies. They track & censor users and abuse independent developers.
funny how exact same UX existed long before that
I prefer Reddit in the browser (with ad blocking) over the official app. Neither are no where near as good of an experience over Apollo though.
Reddit can still reverse this, but I think I might end up closing my account if it goes into effect and Apollo has to shut down. The site is a nice resource for things, but I’m sure I can find an alternative.
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Agreed! Hopefully Facebook and TikTok is up next.
growth dead left and right
big silicon valley companies basically looking for lost change between sofa cushions
big silicon valley companies basically looking for lost change between sofa cushions
For now it's working if it gets blocked I'll install a patched version of the official app without the ads, tracking and promoted content.
I got hooked on Reddit due to having some forums with topics of interest, ranging from one for the car I drove to a good home improvement and financial advice forum. But yeah -- this is also true. It really feels like a heavily left-wing biased site full of people who will downvote anything you say, if it offends them in some fashion or runs counter to their belief system.Reddit is a cesspool echo chamber. Hopefully it goes the way of the dodo (Twitter) very soon.
I didn't even think I posted anything there particularly "polarizing", but you have to walk on eggshells around there to avoid anything that triggers someone. (I mean, people were getting absolutely torn to shreds on the financial advice forum just because they suggested not paying rent was a valid reason to get evicted. Landlords should clearly eat all expenses for anyone struggling due to job loss or medical issues they didn't have insurance for, or ??)
ambiguous comment.
you're talking about the UX of when twitter was constantly posting bad financials before elon took over?
So when will the EU file a complain to shut down Reddit?
"i want someone to lose money on engineering and server costs to host my cat pictures" is not a sustainable model.
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uh, what is this? what device i mean?The original Reddit App version is way too confusing and cluttered!
Where do you even start from? 😌
Reddit has gone to absolute garbage lately. I’ve deleted my account this month.
We are the product.
Reddit accumulates your comments, and sells the well-structured dataset for AI training and other 3rd party purposes.
As long as we keep freely sharing our knowledge, posting links, asking good questions, we generate the content.
Reddit accumulates your comments, and sells the well-structured dataset for AI training and other 3rd party purposes.
As long as we keep freely sharing our knowledge, posting links, asking good questions, we generate the content.
Free apps will likely have to pay to access the API just like Apollo, so they will no longer be free.If you have an Android device you can use an open source app called Infinity. Personally I like it better than the official app ,no ads, free and open source.
Infinity for Reddit | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
A beautiful, feature-rich Reddit client.f-droid.org
What about next year?