Relay was (yup) one of the third party apps that survived the API-calypse. But this sort of model is unsustainable in the long run, given that the competitor (the broken native app) is free and unlimited.
The obvious future monopoly of the broken native app is bad for the platform in the long run, given that Reddit always sucked off ideas from third party apps; and now there’s no incentive whatsoever to make it better, after Reddit Inc. killed the better competitors.
This is a great model!
It means I don’t have to pay anything, which I appreciate.
This also means more lemmings
Paying an app to use Reddit the way you would a cell phone provider sounds absolutely terrible.
Why would anyone use Reddit?
To get answers to specific questions, written by a actual human. That’s the only thing I still use it for. Why deal with pages upon pages blogspam written by bots, when you can simply add site:reddit.com to your searches and get an answer immediately? I can’t wait for the day when Lemmy grows enough that I no longer have to do that.
Or a version of Gigabrain that works with Lemmy. Otherwise too many domains
Momentum/inertia
If the changes don’t directly affect people most of them won’t change their ways. That’s just how it is.
A lot of people are “stuck” because of the content still there, like Psythik said; you either look for info in Reddit or you get to navigate through blogspam. (I do the later because I’d rather not give Reddit more traffic. Screw it. Complex websearching techniques alleviate the issue.)
Others are like this:
I use Reddit quite frequently. Spez (the Co-owner) ist just trying to be like Mark Zuckerberg. He thinks he can do whatever he thinks is necessary for profit. He could really care less about his fan base, or users on the site.
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Whynim seeing this on Memmy ?
Gotta love it
Whynim seeing this on Memmy ?
If you meant “why I’m seeing this on Lemmy?”: because this is a community about Reddit going downhill. That’s it.
Gotta love it
Ditto - I want to see Reddit gone. I wish that it happened earlier, but beggars can’t be choosers.
Wow, they’ve really accelerated the enshitification, haven’t they?
