Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong with saving 3rd party apps? : reddit

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Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong with saving 3rd party apps? (i.ibb.co)

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[–] Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The people who this really affected - third-party app users, people affected by the poor accessibility of the regular app/site and the anti- 'hail corporate' types have already migrated or are otherwise disengaged with Reddit, leaving just the bootlickers.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually that's a really good point!

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

And this was the entire point. Reddit was tired of being the place for over-educated, angst tech bros with lots of free time to be subversive. They want to refocus on the lowest-common denominator Facebook/Instagram/TT crowd who gives themselves over to popular media mind and body.

[–] FreeLunch@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And how many are that? Are the non bootlickers even a significant number?

[–] sys110x@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy growth numbers since the whole API thing kicked off might give some indication.