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'Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable,' Steve Huffman says in defending the move to charge for high-volume API access.

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[–] Varyk 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So with all the subreddits going dark, is Reddit going to lose a lot of ad revenue? Will the subreddits going dark actually hurt the company? Because that would be great.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As someone in the advertising industry - they most likely will just recover the revenue when people flock back after the black out. The only way they truly lose ad revenue is if people leave for a very extended amount of time. Basically - they'll have *lower *impressions (not zero, because people are still there today) in the next few days but they will recover, and it'll be seen as a "dip" but not a loss.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m actually curious if there will be a spike on Wednesday and after with people logging in to look at the “aftermath”. Remember: Negative engagement is still engagement!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly... traffic is traffic and clicks are clicks, it's all the same to an algorithm that determines the # of eyes an ad gets.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right. Speaking of, is there a way to delete reddit accounts without going on reddit?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the best option is the Power Delete Suite if you're wanting to nuke the account and all posts without touching reddit.

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

Not that I know of, though I wouldn’t hold my breath that post-blackout activity is all just account deletion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Even if we forget about advertising, 48 hours is just not enough to achieve anything and might actually be worse than no blackout at all if people want to see change. Louis Rossmann made some great points about that in his latest video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06rCBIKM5M

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It made more sense when it was just about building awareness. We're well past that point, management is aware. We got our "take it or leave it" answer from spez.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is the sad truth. I honestly can't wait until Spez finds out that his glorified RSS feed isn't worth as much as he thought it was come the IPO. One of their investors already got the memo.

[–] httpjames 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think subs will go dark longer than 48 hours, or at least I hope so.

[–] Serval 4 points 1 year ago

I'm sure that lots of moderators want to protest until third party apps are saved, but at the same time they like too much their subreddit's community to risk it to be banned/to risk their place as mods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. Everything I have seen so far has been pretty generous and has left some part of the bridge intact. But there's a very good chance many subs will stay dark when nothing changes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

a lot of people will probably just not return, if the lemmy communities stay active enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Many people won't come back tho.

Especially if they block mobile browsers as well.