👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button 👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button 👉 https://www.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/13ylk42/update_3_reddit_effectively_kills_off_third_party/
I’ve crossposted this video into the community I’ve created about the downfall of Reddit. I’ll mention here a few highlights from watching it:
Rossmann exposed the blatant difference between the API access prices in Imgur and the ones demanded now by Reddit. I think that this is an amazing point to expose, because it shows that Reddit is lying when it says that it is not trying to kill third party apps.
Rossmann also mentions the impact of this over the blind people. For all intents and purposes, if you’re blind then Reddit doesn’t want you in their platform.
A rather nice excerpt from the video:
The community will remember what you did, and screwing over vast swaths of disabled people is a really, really great way to look like the type of piece of shit that nobody wants to give money or revenue to, ever again.
It’s inevitable and won’t be stopped. See Cory Doctorow’s article on the future (and current state of) TikTok, Amazon, Facebook, etc. Reddit is the same. Reddit as we knew it is gone: move on.
And to realize that it’s an endless loop if users keep jumping one platform after another, better to break free of that cycle by going open-source/federated network.
Yeah, people need to realize that maintaining a good social media platform just isn’t profitable without enshittifying it with ads or paywalling key features.
Good for including Steam in that list. The amount of die hard Steam fanatics is crazy and sad.
Wow. That was quite the read. Thank you very much for sharing that, it definitely clears up a few things that I had sort of intuited, but not really articulated in my own head.
old.reddit is next to go.
New reddit is unusable, in the time it loads notifications i would have already read all of them in old reddit
yeah, it hurts to think about but the writing is on the wall…
they already killed the old-style compact reddit mobile site in favour of the new reddit crap, I’m honestly shocked every time I open reddit on desktop and still get old reddit
Look at the URL you posted: you used the official Reddit app to read that website, and they injected all the UTM tracking parameters to know that it was firstly shared from your app using the share button.
Number One reason to boycott their app (but tbh it’s a bit amateur hour, with the resources they have they can do like Amazon and share a shortened URL with much more tracking tokens)
Just to clarify, those links at the bottom are from the description of the youtube video and OP didn’t post em. For some reason that’s what happens when you post youtube videos on lemmy (maybe adding your own descriptions stops this from happening? EDIT: yes it does)
ah it looked like it was posted by OP
Digg-ing their grave… Good one
Had no idea Mr. Rossman had an Odysee channel, watched him on YouTube quite a bit. I’m glad he’s doing a video on the Reddit debacle, and properly calling the official app crap.
