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RIF has now announced they will also be shutting down on June 30th

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/144gmfq/rif_wi...

This is pretty wild. I don't think I've ever seen something like this. I like it. I think Reddit needs to come down to reality.

> I don't think I've ever seen something like this

Except for what happened with Twitter a few months ago.

But Twitter is better, leaner, and more popular than ever now, and deservedly so, now that that sinking ship was righted. Reddit doesn't deserve anything like that after this.

> But Twitter is better, leaner, and more popular than ever now, and deservedly so, now that that sinking ship was righted.

Hopefully this is sarcasm, because in reality the opposite is true (except for the leaner part).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sal...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-is-now-worth-a-third-of...

A company's monetary value is not necessarily tied to how well the app works for its users.

Twitter is better for users now. Because it's not censored to high hell.

> Twitter is better for users now

This is a totally subjective statement. For me its the opposite: All I seem to see there in replies lately are tweets about culture war bullshit talking points that are 100% noise and 0% intellectual value.

> Because it's not censored to high hell.

Except in Turkey, apparently

If you say so!

Seriously? It's worse than ever. If I make the mistake of loading up that site, my only notifications are crypto spam and the homepage has really messed up ads every second post, like stuff I never want to see again (like some kind of effed up mosquito killer appliance which shows them dumping thousands of dead mosquitos onto the ground to demonstrate it works -- WTAF?) ... Combined with suppressing non-"checkmark" users, which basically means "pay to have your voice heard", nonexistent moderation, among countless other issues...

You like it? This is the effect Reddit was trying to create - destroying third party apps which they are finding difficult to monetize. They're betting that these users will start using the website and the official Reddit app. How is this a good thing?

I bet the only users they lose will be the real power-users, ya know, volunteer moderators and that sort.

Hopefully for the owners’ sake they manage to finish their IPO before that whole situation explodes.

> Hopefully for the owners’ sake they manage to finish their IPO before that whole situation explodes.

That just kicks the can. After the IPO there are more owners on the hook if things go critically bad.

The only reason I said I like it is because I want Reddit to face repercussions for the decisions they're making. Sorry if it sounded any other way. This is absolutely awful for me as a user, especially since I used Apollo everyday. But something NEEDED to happen.

They won't.

If the 3rd part Apps did find some way to eat the cost, it would basically solve reddit's monetization problem. Redditors could feel good paying 10$/month to their favorite reddit ap developer, and not evil corpo Reddit, and reddit gets their money.

This was probably the best-case-scenario Reddit was hoping for.

I honestly don't think it will matter though. I've no data, but I bet Reddit doesn't need this traffic, most people's mums will just use the Reddit app and not care.

You’d think so, but your mother was coming to the site because it was moderated, and had regular interesting content. She probably wasn’t moderating or a top poster. Those people are the ones who are going to be pissed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

Sync too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/comments/144jp3w/sync_wi...

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