savjee@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoI want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the supportold.reddit.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down16
arrow-up1159arrow-down1external-linkI want to debunk Reddit's claims, and talk about their unwillingness to work with developers, moderators, and the larger community, as well as say thank you for all the supportold.reddit.comsavjee@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-squareHollowNotion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago Am I missing something? Yeah. They want to kill the third party apps so everyone has to use the ad-supported Reddit app.
minus-squarezeppo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s not clear why they don’t just serve ads in the API and require them to be displayed, or implement profit-sharing with 3rd party devs. The only clear reasons would be for control and to pump up numbers for the IPO.
minus-squareijeff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey’re likely more interested in control than revenue.
Yeah. They want to kill the third party apps so everyone has to use the ad-supported Reddit app.
It’s not clear why they don’t just serve ads in the API and require them to be displayed, or implement profit-sharing with 3rd party devs. The only clear reasons would be for control and to pump up numbers for the IPO.
They’re likely more interested in control than revenue.