#Reddit kills third-party apps by hiking API fees to girnomous levels.
*Me not realising that there were even third-party apps*
So I'm not sure that the narrative that Reddit will destroy its business by doing this is true, cos it doesn't affect users like me, which I suspect, is a majority of its users.
However, as a developer, I will think twice about developing anything for a for-profit platform, seeing what happened with #Twitter etc. It is ... not great that platforms are ..1/2
... shutting the door on developers that helped build it up & make it a success. But it would seem that #enshittification doesn't just affect users but developers. Once they get you in free, they will close off features when it gets so useful that people will be forced to pay (or literally die).
IMHO it's not a good business practice & destroys trust. People are wising up & will think twice about developing third party apps.
This is my non-dev #tech opinion of course. What do you think?
#Reddit
@liztai There’s more than one set of Reddit users. There are the usual posters, lurkers etc like you and me, sure, but there are also mods who spend a lot of time pro-bono to nurture their specific niche communities. Good mods attract “good” users because there’ll be a community with in-jokes/ norms etc.
The “official” apps don’t do much for the latter, definitely not at the scale they need. Third party apps are much more user-friendly with loads of features. Remove those, and mods go away.
@liztai No mods, no users in communities. No users => the “long tail” of niche communities starts to trim. Larger specific ones also could vanish.
IMHO, discord is a much more “natural” home for Reddit communities in exile. Problem with discord, though, is discoverability is a biatch. You really can’t end up on a detailed Discord thread by googling your way in.
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