• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Does the man not realize the absolute exodus the users are trying to warn him about? Blow over? Reddit will die overnight once people can’t use their favorite third party apps anymore, or browse their porn subs.

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      I know the 80/20 rule, and that a big chunk of that 20 uses apps, but I’m not convinced. I thought the same thing about twitter when they killed off third party apps, and I ended up being the only one in my circle who moved to mastodon.

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        Twitter’s first party app was never as hated as reddit’s, was it?

        On twitter you follow people, on reddit, you follow subjects. The latter you can move to another platform, even with just partial user migration. The former, not so much.

        When you are held by your connection to other users, you’re a lot more stuck to a platform. Reddit doesn’t have that nearly to the same extent. I feel that’s one of the critical mistakes the guy at the top is making.