I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn’t want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.
Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?
If this was an option, Reddit would have done it.
But, their goal here is to completely deplatform 3rd party apps, and my assumption is that they are doing this so that their number of active users can’t be verified and those numbers can be pumped up–by counting bots and all sorts of crap.
This is the same tactic Twitter used when they were negotiating with Elon. More “users” is more money.