• screaming in digital@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    …and instead of rallying around a sense of shared community (as false as that ultimately may have been) to make an IPO “interesting” to future investors, the reddit royalty decided to sh!t on the userbase like the vessels they are always believed us to be.

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      3 years ago

      Third party apps were always probably going to be killed as they couldn’t monetize those users and it’s likely a large chunk of their heavy users. Reddit’s ad revenue is garbage compared to it’s reported users. They definitely could have tried to be a bit more diplomatic about it though.