I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn’t want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.

Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?

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    I would have considered that at the start, but at this point they’ve damaged their ecosystem so much, and correspondingly Lemmy has grown a lot, so I don’t see why I would go back either way.

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      Yeah, the fact that he seems devoted to following musk’s business practices leaves litte faith for Reddit to ever get back on the right track again. Besides, I’m loving my time here at the fediverse and will probably start selfhosting my own private Lemmy server soon!

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    If Reddit want to settle this conflict peacefully. I want to do that. But, with recent news today I don’t think so

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    Hah, no. Are you asking if I want to pay for access to a platform that is already dependant on its users to create or aggregate content, while they are already making ad money off my eyeballs? Heck, no, never. If that site cannot make enough money on ads alone, while being one /were of the most visited non-porn sites on the internet, then maybe they should reconsider their other expenses. E.x. Is it really necessary to have a downtown office in an expensive us city, or pay out high CEO wages. I can only really conclude that they are being stupid about this. If they want me back, they are going to have to beg.

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      They took a 250m funding round and used it to build an nft site. reddit’s problems are 100% self created. Think about how ama’s used to be and how they managed to kill that. They could have had several revenue streams just based on ama’s.

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      But that is exactly the problem with third party apps …they don’t show ads so they make no add revenue on people using apps like Sync and Apollo or RIF… The official app does. I understand why they are trying to push people to their app, but the route they took was worst case scenario.

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        Third party app users generate content that make adds possible. Get out of here with this pitty reddit problems.

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        You’re ignoring the other effects of third party apps - which is to have significantly added to the number of users they have to show ads to in the first place.

        Making their API free encouraged active development which increased user engagement. So it absolutely did increase their revenue because it helped to increase the popularity of their site in the first place.

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            Doesn’t matter. The more people who use reddit, the more additional people who will be attracted to reddit. Not only will a percentage of those people use platforms that do support ads, but both groups increase the engagement with reddit, which means more content being added, more discussions being had, more subreddits being created covering new topics.

            Ultimately, it still contributes to reddit.

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    Those are big ifs, but: if the API prices would have been reasonable and if the Reddit leadership hadn’t acted as they have, I think I might have been willing to pay for Premium. As it stands, Reddit leadership has destroyed a lot of trust, so for me that ship has sailed.

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    Three weeks ago, I totally would have… Apollo was life! Now, I don’t think anything could lure me back…

    With Spez’s comments about how Reddit has all this data, and “we’re not going to just give that away for free”, I think anyone left on that platform is going to get sold so hard to anyone with two nickels to rub together, that they will effectively have zero privacy or anonymity… no thanks, Spez.

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      Had they come out and said “hey guys, we really need to actually be making money here. We know it’s not ideal, but itll allow us to further invest in the site and its community”, there really wouldn’t have been a fuss. Sure people would have been upset, but most would’ve gotten it.

      Instead they have to act like petulant children throwing a temper tantrum when they don’t get exactly what they want exactly when they want it.

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      If that had been the compromise, that users of this party apps needed to be premium, I’d have grumbled, but thought 50 a year is worth it to subsidize the costs of running the site without ads using the api.

      Now, hell no. I’m transitioning the community I ran to lemmy, and trying to start communities here. Between lemmy, tildes, and royal road, I have everything I had on reddit.

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      Yeah, the problem rn is that Reddit is shitting on its users, sometime ago, I’d pay, but now I’m gone for good, even if they revert everything

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    If they had given us a heads up that we would need a subscription, early enough in advance.

    If they didnt limit the content we could access.

    If the price wasnt ridiculous - Im not paying Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Game Pass money to access a web forum.

    Then sure.

    But Spez fucked it up. Hes shown that he really doesnt care about the communities, the people that make it up, or even reddit itself. Hes too bent on making that IPO and bailing out as soon as he can.

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    I never paid for it before and I wouldn’t start now. Especially not after how they’ve been handling the whole situation.

    I do agree with what you’re saying, though. Many people would have been fine with paying to keep their favourite apps.

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    Maybe before spez dug his heels in the ground. But now he’s said too much. He admires Elon? Fuck off.

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    No. Even if they decided to do something to placate us today, they’ve shown their hand and demonstrated they don’t give a shit about their userbase. I have no plans of going back. Period.