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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They could have done so much. Force third party apps to use their ads or make a reddit premium subscription. Instead they decided to destroy all their free labor.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They didn't have to force them, third party devs asked them to let them use their ads and Reddit told them no!

[–] Quill7513 26 points 1 year ago

There was an appropriate balance of API fees, returning adds in the API calls, and charging subscription fees to remove ads that would have generated maximum profit by milking the ecosystem from multiple places without ever pissing off users bad enough to make them leave. Complain? Oh sure, users would have done that plenty. On reddit. Where it made reddit monet. Reddit instead elected to simply shit the bed.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

That's called idiocy

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Greed comes for every company eventually.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish that was true.

Waiting for this to hit Nestle since their early times.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greed comes for all companies eventually. That doesn't mean they always fail, it just means they aren't going to act ethically over potential profit. That can cause companies that are held afloat by a community to fail (like reddit). It has already happened to Nestlé. They crossed that line a long time ago, they just have better PR.

[–] Quill7513 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were also smarter about it, slowly constricting tighter and tighter whereas with reddit it was more of a poorly executed throatpunch

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It legitimately feels like the admins were trying to run off all the mods that cared. Still cant believe Spez did the AMA and thought it would smooth things over. They cant be that ignorant to how the community would respond....

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Not to be a raging communist but capitalism really turns everything we like into shit.

[–] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

See, he does get us…