Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong with saving 3rd party apps? : reddit

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Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong with saving 3rd party apps? (i.ibb.co)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The people who this really affected - third-party app users, people affected by the poor accessibility of the regular app/site and the anti- 'hail corporate' types have already migrated or are otherwise disengaged with Reddit, leaving just the bootlickers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Actually that's a really good point!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

And this was the entire point. Reddit was tired of being the place for over-educated, angst tech bros with lots of free time to be subversive. They want to refocus on the lowest-common denominator Facebook/Instagram/TT crowd who gives themselves over to popular media mind and body.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And how many are that? Are the non bootlickers even a significant number?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy growth numbers since the whole API thing kicked off might give some indication.