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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The completely unblockable hegetsus ads were really what made me switch to Apollo from the official Reddit app. Then killing third party apps made me leave for good. Bravo, Reddit

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They could have done so much. Force third party apps to use their ads or make a reddit premium subscription. Instead they decided to destroy all their free labor.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They didn't have to force them, third party devs asked them to let them use their ads and Reddit told them no!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

There was an appropriate balance of API fees, returning adds in the API calls, and charging subscription fees to remove ads that would have generated maximum profit by milking the ecosystem from multiple places without ever pissing off users bad enough to make them leave. Complain? Oh sure, users would have done that plenty. On reddit. Where it made reddit monet. Reddit instead elected to simply shit the bed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's called idiocy

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Greed comes for every company eventually.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish that was true.

Waiting for this to hit Nestle since their early times.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greed comes for all companies eventually. That doesn't mean they always fail, it just means they aren't going to act ethically over potential profit. That can cause companies that are held afloat by a community to fail (like reddit). It has already happened to NestlΓ©. They crossed that line a long time ago, they just have better PR.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were also smarter about it, slowly constricting tighter and tighter whereas with reddit it was more of a poorly executed throatpunch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It legitimately feels like the admins were trying to run off all the mods that cared. Still cant believe Spez did the AMA and thought it would smooth things over. They cant be that ignorant to how the community would respond....

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not to be a raging communist but capitalism really turns everything we like into shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

See, he does get us…

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I totally forgot about hegetsus until now.

We were having a good day.

We were ALL having a good day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

hegetsus

Heget among-drip