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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • This is what doesn’t make sense to me. You want to cut down on reply bots? Sure, they’re kinda annoying anyway. You want to do other things to limit the API? Ok. But to just outright make the price so high as to make it impossible to pay? They’re literally losing millions of users like you. A lot of Apollo users will NEVER install the official app or use new Reddit. It just seems like the dumbest decision ever. Maybe they’ve got data that most new sign ups are from tiktok/Facebook/Instagram. So they’re just going to ride out the wave until active user count is back at what it was. It just seems extremely dumb to basically tank they’re active user count especially as they’re trying to do an IPO.





  • This is what I fear totally as well. I really hope mods start thinking about promoting alternatives, through whatever channels they can that won’t get removed (there’s already rumours they are removing/suppressing mentions of Lemmy or alternatives). I’ve never been a mod, but to just pack up and shut it down totally, to eventually be replaced by admin appointed power hungry mods, it seems like an abandonment of a community you and others have spent years building. I know discord is not the same as Reddit, but at least then there’s a place to regroup whilst you figure out an alternative.


  • “no revenue impact so far” how is it possible to be this short sighted? Of course people using the official app and website without adblock won’t have gone anywhere. It wasn’t every subreddit, they’re probably just wondering why so many aren’t working. But if this continues, and tbh the damage is already done for a lot of people, users and moderators who generate the content and make the site usable for the zombies will leave and it will just become twitter 2.0, an increasingly bad shitshow, some subreddits will be left with no quality submissions at all.

    Also: “still in conversation” with other third party apps? The entire point was to make the price so high they’d have to shut down. Plausible deniability I guess, and those other third party apps with way less users will probably just be able to sell subscriptions (can’t even use ads, though)