It worked great for Twitter, I’m sure it will be an incredible success for Reddit as well.
Hopefully one more nudge towards decentralized services and open standards.
Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
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#142Reddit is getting destroyed by tiktok for casual news/random videos etc.
I was a huge reddit user over the years, but now I only go there for a handful of very specific subreddits. That's really it's only use anymore. It's great for that, but they are probably seeing massive decline in usage.
And the moment they basically kill 3rd party reddit apps is the day I barely touch it again.
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#143Their pricing is just absurd. Reddit's official app and webpage is garbage, and instead of working with amazing developers like Christian to add whatever functionality they need to increase their revenue, they're doubling down on bad decisions and alienating their users. Pure hubris... they've forgotten their own history and why the Digg exodus happened. Seriously, _what_ are they gaining by eliminating access to thi…
> If they want more ads, they can change the APIs to inject them. Reddit wants freedom to arbitrarily change the design of their app and placement of ads, etc. Ads are a huge (primary?) source of revenue for them. If they are tethered to supporting third party clients, it's harder to make reasonable estimates of how many captive users will see ads or new features. Reddit could enforce ad presentation in third party c…
> Reddit wants freedom to arbitrarily change the design of their app and placement of ads, etc. Ads are a huge (primary?) source of revenue for them.
And they do. Over time they have become less and less distinguishable from post of humans.
I wonder what's going to happen with Apollo.
And what about my script to randomize my posts after a while? Yea, it doesn't do a lot, but still...
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not at all accidental. Elon Musk has given cover for other social media sites to imitate many of his moves, such as Facebook introducing a subscription tier.
Why would they want to imitate a failing business model?
Now that's the question. Is it a failing business model if everyone is starting to do it?
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#145Please Reddit, just let us use a web browser to access your web site.
Users shouldn’t be forced so aggressively into using an ‘app’ - whether the official one or a 3rd-party app - when mobile web browsers are so very capable.
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#147I don't know how many employees Apollo App has, but I wonder if a viable solution is just to build their own Reddit? I realize that's a massive task, but if the only other option is shut the company down, it might be worth exploring. They've already got the interface built and if you remove a lot of the bells and whistles, Reddit is a pretty simple app other than the scale at which they operate (which is obviously a…
I think Apollo is a “one man band”
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#148It's business. While I do hate reddit with the passion of a thousand burning suns I acknowledge their right to set their API prices however they wish. They are not a monopolist by any stretch of the word.
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#149My understanding is that LLMs use Reddit comments as training data. These LLMs are often well funded and Reddit is using this to their advantage. Suddenly, a decade or so of this kind of data has turned to gold and damned if a company soon to travel down an IPO pathway is passing this cash cow up.
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#150Please Reddit, just let us use a web browser to access your web site. Users shouldn’t be forced so aggressively into using an ‘app’ - whether the official one or a 3rd-party app - when mobile web browsers are so very capable.
Ever since learning the phrase "enshittification" [1] from Cory Doctorow it becomes more apparent when it happens around you.
I wonder if there is a "fediverse" for something like forums? I can never get into mastodon because it's not like forums and conversations between people are quite hard if you don't follow them.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/