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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Nah, that only happens when the parent company as enough money and power to setup those kind of deals. If Reddit is doing as poorly as they claim ("3rd party apps are profitable, we aren't"), they'll never have enough money and influence to become a built in app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

ROFL! No, it won’t.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Why? Samsung/verizon/att/etc are not preinstalling the facebook or tiktok malware because they actually think "people will appreciate this", but because they're getting paid for it.

It's impossible that reddit will pay the hundreds of millions of dollars required to do this, they shut down the API as it was "unsustainable" while costing them just 10 million dolllars (and imho much less than that)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that Facebook is how entire countries access the internet.

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

Facebook is the app that a lot of countries use to access the internet. Sort of like how AOL was the portal to the internet a couple decades ago.

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

I sure hope not. I don’t think Reddit has the money to pay for that kind of spot, thank goodness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not if Spez kills it first. With all their recent moves it seems to be going the direction of MySpace.

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

Cool, another icon I’ll never touch. TIHI.

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

If Reddit keeps going the same way Twitter seems to be, then there won't be a Reddit app for much longer.

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

I doubt that, first Reddit needs billions of dollars to throw at phone companies.