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> The relationship between Reddit and it's community is very delicate, so it seems pretty silly for Reddit to decide to crash it into a wall shortly before thei
by doix 3y ago
> The relationship between Reddit and it's community is very delicate, so it seems pretty silly for Reddit to decide to crash it into a wall shortly before their IPO. They might get the IPO pop they want - I doubt it, they're smashing the long term viability of the company.
I'm guessing someone looked at the data and figured that losing x% of users is worth it if they can extract an extra y% profit from the remaining users. We'll shortly see if they are right!
If I was in their position, I would just restrict 3rd party app access to Reddit gold subscribers. You would probably lose less users that way, and extract at least some money from them. You'd need to figure out some heuristic to detect when people are "abusing" their reddit gold to scrape all data. And also work with 3rd party developers to reduce the number of API calls they make rather than just being condescending dicks [0].
If they did all that, they could probably even milk it a bit, something like: "We heard the community and we are listening!".
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/jmolrhn/ https://old.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...
- willis936 3y agoThere's a reason Digg has been mentioned so much around this story. Reddit ate Digg's lunch because Digg made bad decisions. Reddit is making the same flavor of bad decisions and their lunch will be promptly eaten by someone else. It's obviously a losing strategy. Everyone can see it except for the greedy execs seeing dollar signs rather than the real world.
- sslayer 3y agoIf anyone else is like me, I'm just looking for the next community so that I can ditch reddit. I'm looking for a site that can maintain free speech,limit the bot noise,draw in real users and foster a real community spirit and attitude without selling out to corporatism, over moderation, and overall corrupt tendencies.
- IggleSniggle 3y agoI’m trying out federated via lemmy (lemmy.ml, lemmy.one, self-host, whatever) which interoperates with mastodon etc. If somebody were to start a larger lemmy server and do Reddit scraping for even just the next couple days, it would probably gain traction pretty quickly. But also that sounds expensive for an enthusiast
- CameronNemo 3y agohttps://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-...
- mrguyorama 3y agoI guess it makes sense that the only people dedicated and motivated enough to actually build their own stuff in the modern world are neo-nazis and tankies.
- ekanes 3y agoI'm in the same boat, looking at lemmy and mastodon. I think the key will be to hit some critical mass quickly enough.
- rootusrootus 3y agoAre you willing to pay?
- willis936 3y agoI paid for Apollo and would pay them regularly. I'd feel better about it if the money went to people with similar principles rather than soulless profit maximizers, which is what would happen if Apollo split off and offered a paid model.
- ekanes 3y ago100% agree, the challenge is that with Digg, we had reddit to flee to. I'm looking at lemmy, which seems similar in many ways, but is federated.
- coremoff 3y ago> If I was in their position, I would just restrict 3rd party app access to Reddit gold subscribers I'm a Relay user, and was gold until I cancelled yesterday... will not be re-subscribing if things continue on their current trajectory