Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps

Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by emodendroket on Saturday June 03, 2023 @10:03PM (#36182355)

I’m not sure how much to read into an interview, but how many times are we going to be surprised by this cycle? They don’t care about monetization until their user base has grown large and established, and then they do and monetize aggressively. Where have I seen this movie before?

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by pjmlp on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:20AM (#36183726)

A side effect of free beer and the effect of early FOSS and Web days.

It turns out paying employees and business infrastructure requires money in a capitalist society.

Free only works when someone else is paying, until they don't.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by lakomen on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:49AM (#36184342)

If I could downvote I would. This is completely missing the topic.

It's about too aggressive monetization vs. user experience and the loss of visitors/ad targets, not some "yeehaw things cost money"

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by jtode on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:28AM (#36184762)

I think the point he's obliquely trying to make is that the monetization of attention is not a thing that can actually be done right, at all.

We should have solved the problem of bandwidth costs another way - taxes or paying individually for each thing. People keep saying the internet failed. No, the internet has been working perfectly while a bunch of bridge trolls came in and setup shop.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by CyberDildonics on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:57AM (#36186087)

These two things have nothing to do with each other and this is a very black and white mentality. Reddit already had ads and already made money. This is about squeezing more money out of users, not any sort of charity for a system that doesn't sustain itself.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by emodendroket on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:08PM (#36187311)

Those ads aren’t helping anything if you consume the site through an API and a third-party application.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by stefandesu on Sunday June 04, 2023 @03:47AM (#36183821)

I'm surprised because it never ends well for the company in the long term, and they should know this.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by MengerSponge on Sunday June 04, 2023 @04:06AM (#36183893)

"Did it ever work for these people?"

"No. It never does. I mean these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might. But......it might work for us."

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by jtode on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:25AM (#36184743)

Looking too closely at that abyss leads to some disturbing implications, for people who like to sit on their ass and collect dividends while other people work.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by WhyNotHugo on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:27AM (#36184758)

Won't investors just sell stock when it's high and then move their money onto the next platform?

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by maest on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:35AM (#36185134)

For every seller there's a buyer, so there will always be investors parking money into the platform.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by WhyNotHugo on Sunday June 04, 2023 @11:30AM (#36186388)

The new buyers are the same folks that buy stock in Yahoo.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by emodendroket on Sunday June 04, 2023 @01:07PM (#36187301)

It doesn’t? Facebook is worth a gazillion dollars and YouTube seems to be doing alright.

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Re:Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps by QkPrsMizkYvt on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:46AM (#36192384)

It worked for Meta.

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