All social media are unprofitable and thus unsustainable. Every time a social media starts focusing on profits, the user experience becomes so bad that it dies eventually anyway. It's all downhill from here.

you can just ignore it, thats what i do.

I’m no twitter CEO , but it seems to me that if your site/app is basically powered by its users creating content , and you announce a move that pisses them ALL off , maybe not doing that move , and listening to them is the smart thing to do.

So one thing I’ve heard that kinda makes sense is all the text AI’s are trawling Reddit for learning material, and those take a lot of data at once. Catching third party apps like this is a greedier move, but AI learning might just pony up.

Well it won’t let me log in unless I use the desktop version of the site which is microscopic on my phone screen.

I’ve had two bosses and one landlord that were good friends and remain good friends without holding a job or home over my head, but boy were the rest total scum

Eh. I bet they are bought in the next three years.

“They’d jump in front of an electric semi just to “prove” that the vehicles don’t hurt people that much if someone gets ran over by it.”

Yeah it’s not like Reddit is fundamentally that special mechanically. It would be much easier to see a mass exodus off Reddit than Twitter, because it’s much more information-oriented. 

You’re not wrong though, are you?

Am I right in believing the 3rd party apps scrape the discussions from reddit, but don’t serve ads (at least not ads from reddit)? If so, it sounds like they’re essentially sidestepping the sites’ primary revenue source. Again, if so, it’s almost irresponsible of them to have allowed them to operate for as long as…

I wouldn’t use third party apps if Reddit actually offered the features those apps give.  Like keyword filtering.  Up your game Reddit.

You could’ve written “CEOs Are Just Making Everything Worse” and been more accurate.

I just want to shake this clown until the stupid stops and tell him that Bezos isn’t going to drop 50 billion on Reddit just because Elon Musk bought Twitter.

Reddit forgets its history; rising with the prideful fall of Digg.

Reddit working overtime astroturfing comment sections, I see.

So why all the fuss now over profit margins?

So, like most ‘CEOs’, he’s another ‘promoted beyond the level of his incompetence’ clown who cannot see the forest for the trees, nor the trees for the forest. He has no meaningful skills or knowledge, and is relying on the status quo of an atrophied ‘profession’ that is easily the least important job, with the lowest…

What’s hilarious is that Reddit lives off of Free Labor (Unpaid Mods) and User Engagement (Advertising) + Money Spent within App. Now they are trying to use the Musky Twitter Model and destroy both Free Mods (Labor) and Users who will go elsewhere once the next site pops up. Trust that I have zero attachment to Reddit…

that not only was Reddit “never designed to support third-party apps”