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Most users of Reddit are pretty passive. They won't change their behaviour because of this. It's the power users that's a different matter. The people most eng
by over_bridge 3y ago
Most users of Reddit are pretty passive. They won't change their behaviour because of this.
It's the power users that's a different matter. The people most engaged with Reddit are likely to be among those who actually participate and make posts. If you see a drop in creators and commenters then we've got a degradation of the entire system.
I see myself as a commenter, a mid range user. I comment often but have posted only three times in 10 years. Without those posters then I'm gone by default even though I don't use third party apps. We'll have to wait and see which segment decides to leave.
- solarkraft 3y agoIt's the funniest (and in my mind a way under-appreciated in this discussion) thing: The people they are driving away are the power users, the exact people who power the platform. These people are the creators of the content Reddit is trying to monetize the consumers of. "Providing an API costs money", but so does providing chairs for your employees to sit on, yet that doesn't seem like such a crazy thing to be doing "for free". These are the people powering Reddit, without them it is nothing.