Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong with saving 3rd party apps? - eviltoast
  • Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    The people who this really affected - third-party app users, people affected by the poor accessibility of the regular app/site and the anti- ‘hail corporate’ types have already migrated or are otherwise disengaged with Reddit, leaving just the bootlickers.

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      1 year ago

      And this was the entire point. Reddit was tired of being the place for over-educated, angst tech bros with lots of free time to be subversive. They want to refocus on the lowest-common denominator Facebook/Instagram/TT crowd who gives themselves over to popular media mind and body.

      • sys110x@feddit.nl
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        1 year ago

        Lemmy growth numbers since the whole API thing kicked off might give some indication.