Like many people I’m here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I’ve been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed in the world that has changed the business case of these sites?

  • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
    35·
    1 year ago

    Here’s the play, charge a reasonable amount for API calls and people will either pay with money or with data, some will even do both.

    Instead you and I are having this conversation on kbin.

    After the way shithead acted and talked, well I waste less time on the internet, and yeah, it’s a little harder to find results on google, but that is just making me realize how much I relied on Reddit.

    I need to find another search engine too, I rely too much on too few providers.

    They got us one convenience at a time.

    • jibbist@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      It’s a failure of a business mind all of this.

      • Failure to understand the users
      • Failure to realise who actually makes and owns the content
      • Failure to control costs
      • Failure to adapt and change how they charge
      • Failure to use the community to improve the product

      I had a reddit account for 16 years, and as soon as Apollo stopped working a few days ago, I logged out everywhere and not going back

    • escapedgoat@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      A better option might be to require third party developers to use a Reddit based advertising API with the benefit of free API usage and revenue sharing. Everyone’s happy. Third party developers would get paid for ads, they can show more ads and use other ad providers along side Reddit if they want to, the API gets paid for by advertising revenue for all of the third party apps, Reddit gets to track it’s users by requiring API Ad calls to send a user id, etc., etc…