The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

  • Chozo@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I think we’re gonna see another huge blow to Reddit in a few days when all the third-party apps go permanently offline. I’ll bet that a lot of people who haven’t been paying attention so far are definitely going to start having something to say about it very soon.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe, I’m certainly in that camp. Once RIF stops working I’ll stop using Reddit. I don’t know that there are a lot of people like me though (and the ones that are are probably here already).

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        When RiF dies, I’ll stop using reddit on mobile.

        I’ll probably check-in occationally when I’m on desktop, but that’ll signifigantly reduce my time on the site.

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          I’ve already stopped using reddit altogether on my phone. I moved Apollo off my homescreen.

          And I still check reddit on desktop here and there, but that’s mostly to check mod messages. And to see what that latest admins are threatening me with. I got 3 small subs that are private. And reddit doesn’t like that.

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      This will be when the true test for Reddit begins; if the outcry is large enough that spez ends up relenting in some way then he will have already alienated a lot of users. If the outcry is minimal then I guess he won, but the prize hardly seems worth the drama that has been spun up.

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        It isn’t going to be outcry, it is going to be drop in traffic. Spez is gambling that third party app users will switch to the official app. I won’t, and I hope most others don’t.

    • anlumo@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I’ll bet that a lot of people who haven’t been paying attention

      At least Apollo put up a huge honking alert dialog about the situation, it was impossible to miss.