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  • I think the real issue is that the protest coordinators were not able to succinctly explain why they had to protest to begin with. Charging third party app developers for API access is an esoteric topic. Most people don’t even know what an API is. Most people don’t use third party apps. Most people also don’t care.

      •  Crotaro   ( @Crotaro@beehaw.org ) 
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        72 years ago

        You can’t throw out an enormous number like that without further explanation or a source at least. The only post I found on my first Google search is from a reddit post (6 days ago) where it’s said that reddit reports about 5% of its users coming from third party apps.

        •  Irisos   ( @Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live ) 
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          Apollo also reported having around 1.2M users while not being a small app at all.

          So with 400M MAU as the lowest possible amount of users, somehow all others 3rd party apps have over 118M users between them?

          I could believe 30% of users being old.reddit ones due to it not being deleted after all those years. But for mobile apps, that 5% quote seems the most realistic.