Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API

  • jscummy@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Which is incredibly stupid and shortsighted. Third party developers have made the UX actually tolerable, and of course the users are the absolute cornerstone of the whole website

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      1 year ago

      Agreed but that’s unfortunate the reality in surveillance capitalism.

      They thought they could do a similar thing as twitter in banning 3rd parties but failed to understand that their moderators and power users that contribute the majority of the content rely exclusively on the 3rd party apps.