Casey NewtonJun 13, 2023
I wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark
Reddit goes dark

As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site’s self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it

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Show threadWill ClarkJun 13, 2023

@caseynewton Any thoughts on the inconsistencies in what Huffman seems to say is the issue versus what they're actually implementing?

For example, there's zero chance that Apollo itself costs "tens of millions" to support, but Huffman seems to be maniacally focused on Apollo. He also seems to act like the $500k/yr Apollo makes is somehow a material amount to Reddit.

Show threadCasey NewtonJun 13, 2023
@robotdeathsquad I'm still trying to understand everything that has been said on the subject tbh ... a lot of digital ink has been spilled here by all parties
Show threadWill Clark

@caseynewton Apologies for spamming your mentions, but I found this quote from the leaked memo today particularly interesting:
"The only long term solution is improving our product”

I'd love to know how the API changes lead to that, in their mind, because that's the 3rd "strategy" we’ve heard in the last couple weeks.

Jun 13, 2023 at 8:15pmIvory for Mac