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Memmy developers were able to build a better app in a month than Reddit’s team was able to build in ten years (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memmy@lemmy.ml
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I’m not sure what that says about the quality of the Memmy team or that of Reddit or both.

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[–] 22 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Reddit don't want to build a good app. They want to harvest data.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They literally said so. Their goal wasn’t to collaborate with the third party apps to maybe take what they did well and compensate them, they wanted to kill them and drive traffic to their ads and data scrapers.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Fuck you, don't give reddit the accolade of being honest.

    They literally said they weren't trying to kill third party apps. They literally said they wouldn't do what Twitter did. They literally said any pricing would be based in reality.

    Yes, this was all a lie and we now know they just wanted to kill all apps, but don't let them look even 5% less shitty by pretending they were honest about their intentions.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I meant they said they wanted to drive traffic to their official site to sell ads and scrape data. Maybe they just said it to the Apollo dev and he leaked it? I don’t remember, but I do remember reading them saying the quiet part out loud.

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