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I disagree. I hate the decisions they make and personally, along with you, I think it's idiotic.
But while I hate on them, they will get away with it. Theyre not stupid. The decisions don't align with its users but it will still work.
Look at netflix raising prices for arguably worse content. Working for them.
Reddit; Charging for the API essentially killing almost all 3rd party apps. Not sure the effect but reddit doesn't seem to really be hurting. Users want to move but reddit is just too good. I even still use it because the user content on there is amazing. I try to ask all my questions/have discussions on lemmy, but I'm one person. Reddit has infinity more always contributing. I think the management sucks, but the platform just isn't fully rivaled yet so they can keep milking their audience.
Netflix was always a paid service though. I don’t know if people will want to pay for something they’ve had for free for over a decade, especially if the free subreddits will still exist.
I’d also imagine that for any paid subreddit, someone will make a free version with similar content.
Oh I’m sure that for one reason or another many of these free subreddits will end up migrating. Feature/moderator tool stagnation, potential payment or rev share models, plain old BS reasons to close existing subs.
Whatever the excuse, their next move will be to shift big subreddits over, maybe starting with popular but more niche subs, then pivoting from there.
Anything that is niche, dominating in terms of Internet presence for that interest, and potentially tied to folks who have more disposable income.
I agree that it won't go bad for them. It costs them almost nothing to implement and when you have a big enough userbase there are always rubes who will pay for anything you charge for.
I thought Tinder's most expensive tier costing $500/month was a joke, but it's actually a thing. Someone somewhere is paying $500 for Tinder every single month. Wild.
It's for people with that much money to waste. Saudi princes and the like.
The secret is they made it easy to bypass, the API still works if you moderate any subreddit, even if it's one you just made. They made it just difficult enough to move the 99% of normie users to their own app.
Are you certain it works this way? I find it hard to believe
Yes, I'm still using Joey just fine. A lot of the apps were disabled by their creators, although there's apparently revanced patches for some.
Can confirm, I can use Boost for Reddit on my main account which is a moderator for a sub, but my second account which has no moderation abilities "breaks" the app until I switch back.
I disagree that Reddit has good content but even bad content is better than no content for communities that haven’t been built here yet