L4sBotAs Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
alpacaponeIt's going to dip again when third party apps are shut off. Personally I'm still browsing Reddit to check in on the drama on /r/ModCoord
dunno, but third party usage were never that high IIRC. that's why them targeting third party apps is a weird decision
It’s not weird at all.
The traffic is low so they don’t give a shit and by killing them third party apps they avoid questions from investors about loopholes in their ad feeding platform. Reddit wants to go public now so they have to be big boys, and we all know what it means under ripe capitalism. No mission, only revenue
niktemadurby killing them third party apps they avoid questions from investors about loopholes in their ad feeding platform
No mission, only revenue... and smoke and mirrors? A bait-and-switch to fool investors?
Because if third-party app usage really is that low, and Reddit is losing money regardless, you're describing putting a Band-aid on a hemorrhage and declaring the patient cured.
Are investors really that stupid? Just another meaningless ritualistic sacrifice at the altar of investment capitalism? "Show them that you're doing something. Just do something, make a splash, whatever it is, I don't care. Act like you're REALLY busy." And how is this any different from incompetent russian generals invading Ukraine? They look to me like mirror images of each other.
Then again, there's greed, the impulse for total control, biting off more than you can chew then not being able to back down because of pride and arrogance, emotional incompetence, and damn the consequences, both short and long term, the collateral damage. And here the Ukraine analogy is once again wafting across my mind.