> A lot of reddit user seems to be under the misapprehension that reddit is a co-op. Yeah, people tend to listen to others in charge of companies too much. In

> A lot of reddit user seems to be under the misapprehension that reddit is a co-op. Yeah, people tend to listen to others in charge of companies too much. In this case, Huffman previously stated things like: > GQ: One of the big turning points in Reddit’s history was Digg’s collapse. It was your biggest competitor and imploded almost overnight. Is there anything about Reddit that makes you worry something like that could happen to you? > Huffman: I think the problem Digg had is that it was a company that was built to be a company, and you could feel it in the product. The way you could criticize Reddit is that we weren't a company – we were all heart and no head for a long time. So I think it'd be really hard for me and for the team to kill Reddit in that way. And people ate it up, bait and everything. > Reddit wants users to use their app so they can accidently click on ads It's about more than just that, otherwise reddit would just force 3rd party apps to serve ads, just like the official client. Instead they seem hellbent on removing 3rd party apps fully.