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
STOMPYI@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They went from providing value to extracting it.
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They made the service more shitty! We need a long word to describe that process.
holycrap@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Hmm… is impoopify taken?
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
enfecification?
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Long word? Poooooooooooipification
TheBat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Excrementize?
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
moreshittierization