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I figured because they don't want 3rd party apps because they don't run ads for Reddit. Reddit wants users within their (soon to be) walled garden getting fed a

I figured because they don't want 3rd party apps because they don't run ads for Reddit. Reddit wants users within their (soon to be) walled garden getting fed all of the monetization pressure systems. My take when Reddit said that Apollo cost them $20M a year, they weren't talking running costs but revenue potential because Apollo doesn't feed ads to its users.

appletrotter 3y ago
Hopefully someone has the link, but I heard that the lost revenue from ads is significantly lower than the $20 million bill.
mattkevan 3y ago
I don’t understand, if API apps not displaying ads is the problem, why Reddit doesn’t include ads in the feed and make displaying them part of the terms for access. They could even have a revenue sharing agreement with the app developers.
- junon 3y ago
  This implies that the Reddit administration thinks things through. They have a track record proving they indeed do not.
  - BizarroLand 3y ago
    I wonder how we've ended up in a situation with so many petulant tyrants running amok over previously green fields of humanity? Elon, Zuck, Bezos, Trump, Gates, Putin and now Reddit, all in the last 5-7 years have been doing things that are user or human hostile while holding some segment of our society hostage in the process. Elon throwing a 42 billion dollar Twitter hissyfit, Bezos using Amazon's money and connections to lock sellers into their platform and then undercut them with cheap knockoffs, plus underpaying their front line employees as if they don't have enough money already, Trump with turning seemingly normal Republicans into walking cesspools of hate, Gates with the Windows 10/11 privacy and user right shitstorm, and now Reddit redlining their greed and attacking the users and apps that actually makes their site function while not offering any equivalent alternative, Putin tanking the entire country's human reserves and financial strengths to try to vaingloriously steal back a few hundred square miles of land. All of these things happening in the same bundle of years makes me want to believe in Aliens or Armageddon or the Illuminati or something, because I can't bring myself to believe that the most powerful people in the world would be so selfishly stupid. Selfish, yes, stupid, yes, but selfishly stupid? When they are surrounded by so many people whose life and lineage and future history depends on the glamorous and glowing successes of these people? And they all ignore all of them and do stupid things with no one checking their ego even the slightest? How is that possible without an unseen third hand pulling the strings? I don't know, and I don't think I believe there is something like that, but I suspect there is, and I can't shake that suspicion either.
    - junon 3y ago
      AFAIK Gates has almost nothing to do with Windows these days, but yeah I see your point.

appletrotter 3y ago

Hopefully someone has the link, but I heard that the lost revenue from ads is significantly lower than the $20 million bill.

mattkevan 3y ago

I don’t understand, if API apps not displaying ads is the problem, why Reddit doesn’t include ads in the feed and make displaying them part of the terms for access. They could even have a revenue sharing agreement with the app developers.

junon 3y ago
This implies that the Reddit administration thinks things through. They have a track record proving they indeed do not.
- BizarroLand 3y ago
  I wonder how we've ended up in a situation with so many petulant tyrants running amok over previously green fields of humanity? Elon, Zuck, Bezos, Trump, Gates, Putin and now Reddit, all in the last 5-7 years have been doing things that are user or human hostile while holding some segment of our society hostage in the process. Elon throwing a 42 billion dollar Twitter hissyfit, Bezos using Amazon's money and connections to lock sellers into their platform and then undercut them with cheap knockoffs, plus underpaying their front line employees as if they don't have enough money already, Trump with turning seemingly normal Republicans into walking cesspools of hate, Gates with the Windows 10/11 privacy and user right shitstorm, and now Reddit redlining their greed and attacking the users and apps that actually makes their site function while not offering any equivalent alternative, Putin tanking the entire country's human reserves and financial strengths to try to vaingloriously steal back a few hundred square miles of land. All of these things happening in the same bundle of years makes me want to believe in Aliens or Armageddon or the Illuminati or something, because I can't bring myself to believe that the most powerful people in the world would be so selfishly stupid. Selfish, yes, stupid, yes, but selfishly stupid? When they are surrounded by so many people whose life and lineage and future history depends on the glamorous and glowing successes of these people? And they all ignore all of them and do stupid things with no one checking their ego even the slightest? How is that possible without an unseen third hand pulling the strings? I don't know, and I don't think I believe there is something like that, but I suspect there is, and I can't shake that suspicion either.
  - junon 3y ago
    AFAIK Gates has almost nothing to do with Windows these days, but yeah I see your point.