• Artistan@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Unlike some of the 3P [third-party] apps, we are not profitable - Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO

    Translation - we don’t have control of the 3PA and they are getting in the way of moooore profit, so we want them gone.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      1 year ago

      What a shitty job at astroturphing there.

      "Won’t someone think of the corporations! The evil third party apps (that we admitted were less than 10% of our userbase) are (somehow) bankrupting us! They’re using so much API (even though our website uses at least 5x the API calls)

      [Translation: There’s 10% of the people we could shove ads in front of who are getting around it and I want to sell this sucker so I can buy another vacation property]

    • Ilikemoney@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Something like reddit doesn’t long if it’s not profitable. He’s not in the same reality that we are