Comment on What is Reddit doing

spencer@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• STOMPYI@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They went from providing value to extracting it.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They made the service more shitty! We need a long word to describe that process.

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    • holycrap@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm… is impoopify taken?

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        enfecification?

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    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Long word? Poooooooooooipification

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Excrementize?

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    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      moreshittierization

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the worst part is they entirely ignored the most painfully obvious solution of implementing a “reddit plus” or “reddit premium” or “reddit red” and just gated third party app access behind a $9.99/mo subscription. I have a hard time believing most reddit users’ ad views are worth anywhere near that much per month. But instead they decided to burn a significant sum of goodwill on questionable premises and pissed off a significant number of power users.

  The feeling I got from all of the communications was that /u/spez was jealous of Apollo and just wanted to kill off Apollo. Which would explain why they took such a scorched earth approach in trying to kill all third party apps

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  • InvaderDJ@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is basically what they did. There are a decent amount of third party apps around that work. I personally use Narwhal.

    The further we get from the whole third party app debacle, the more I think this was just a way to kill the most popular apps. The ones that people said made reddit worth using. The ones that got shouted out in Apple keynotes.

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