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Why is /r/Videos shutting down on June 12th? How will this change affect regular users? More info here. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social to c/technology@beehaw.org
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The /r/videos mods are going all out and someone made this lovely graphic to explain why subs are going dark next week.

While I’d love to have my users on Lemmy, I also hope that this actually does something for Reddit and they reverse course on their planed changes.

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[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s probably only a tiny minority of users who even know they exist.

Probably, but it'll be the power users, mods and regular contributors who are most likely to use the apps that need the API to operate correctly.

[–] AbelianGrape@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This, exactly this, 100% this. It's the 80-20 rule, except in Reddit's case it's probably even more extreme because of bots. Almost all of the quality content on Reddit comes from a very small portion of Reddit's users, and it's very likely that most of those users are using third party apps.

I think Reddit made a calculated decision here - and I also think they are terrible at math.

[–] EponymousBosh@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yep. It's not necessarily the number of users being affected, it's which users.