3rd party (so unreliable) numbers suggest they lost around 6% user engagement. I woukd guess that serving adds to all the people that switched from 3rd party to official apps probably made up for it in the short term.

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[–] Surreal2625@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As always everything gets destroyed by greed.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I just enjoy a new beginning

[–] pmarcilus@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once upon a time, reddit was an open-source platform. Never again it has the same face when it decided to close the sources, then the UI changes, then the ads, then the API charges. All of those are for the profits of them, not of users'.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

They don't even try hiding it, they are blatant and egregious about it. They are gonna just eng up chasing all their users away.