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Ordinary redditors are feeling the pain as well. (teddit.adminforge.de)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,

I'm not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn't even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can't tell you how many times now I've looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (14 children)

It's really that high? I'm surprised, I would have thought 3rd party app use was way more common.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Among higher than average users it seemingly was. Given that reddit was saying the third party apps were using above average amounts of API calls per user. They said it's because of the 3PAs baing unoptimized but it was likely that more engaged users used 3PAs.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

i think it's cuz a lot of us were redditors who used it before they even had an official reddit app, and so it wasn't pushed on us as the default option. the older, more dedicated reddit accounts disproportionately made up the active userbase

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Before they bought a 3rd party app. The official app was alien blue first

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