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Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. (teddit.adminforge.de)

submitted 1 year ago by abff08f4813c@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,

I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.

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[–] Mankablastodicopium@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Yep, the whole thing had ordinary and third party app users pitted against each other, only because blaming the mods would've reopened the subs faster than going against reddit itself. And the fact that 90% of reddit don't use third party app makes it that much worse. Goddammit spez you cunning mf.

[–] Hippiemcgee@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It's really that high? I'm surprised, I would have thought 3rd party app use was way more common.

[–] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Among higher than average users it seemingly was. Given that reddit was saying the third party apps were using above average amounts of API calls per user. They said it's because of the 3PAs baing unoptimized but it was likely that more engaged users used 3PAs.

[–] RavenFellBlade@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The interface for Sync, as an example, made it much easier and more efficient to use. I would argue that 3P users use more calls because using those apps allow you to browse and interact far more effectively without cutting through the swaths of "He Gets Us" ads that Sync users never even had to see. Ultimately, I suspect that tha was the true reason for the API changes. Lost ad revenue. Judging by what I saw just today being stuck briefly on the official Reddit app and the website taking care of last minute issues after Sync went down, it's bad. Wall of ads.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

If they would just charge you reasonable price, or fix their own app, none of this would be an issue.

But it's about the data, not the money, because the data is where the real money is at.

If you had everyone who used Reddit, had all their browsing and tracking data, how long they scrolled and looked at whatever, how long they stayed on the page after, what they looked at next, so on and so on, you could sell it in multiple times to multiple people for multiple things and each data set be unique

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