this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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"It's a real shame that Reddit seems to care this little about the community that rather than making an effort to talk to developers and moderators and apologize for how this was handled, they'd rather just wall themselves off and and dare users to keep going."

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[–] markipol 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"no revenue impact so far" how is it possible to be this short sighted? Of course people using the official app and website without adblock won't have gone anywhere. It wasn't every subreddit, they're probably just wondering why so many aren't working. But if this continues, and tbh the damage is already done for a lot of people, users and moderators who generate the content and make the site usable for the zombies will leave and it will just become twitter 2.0, an increasingly bad shitshow, some subreddits will be left with no quality submissions at all.

Also: "still in conversation" with other third party apps? The entire point was to make the price so high they'd have to shut down. Plausible deniability I guess, and those other third party apps with way less users will probably just be able to sell subscriptions (can't even use ads, though)

[–] Hellebert 2 points 1 year ago

It is perplexing that if Reddits goal was to make money from AI that it didn't also reach out to the popular third party apps and come up with a deal to keep them operational instead of the current situation.

[–] Dustmuffins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a feeling that memo leaking is just going to piss off more mods and many of them may end up staying private indefinitely.

[–] Jagermo@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

100%. They knew this would leak.

[–] markipol 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe it was a tactic to actually piss them off more and then they can use the excuse "we can't have our site shut off indefinitely" and then they can re open the subs and replace them

[–] LondonPilot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I really hope so