I’ve been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a “they can’t make me use their shitty app!” while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away from a platform long term?

I have a feeling that most folks are more loyal to their communities than they are the company themselves - meaning that no matter how bad the corporation is, sacrificing what they truly care about is not really worth it no matter how poorly they are treated.

If the community goes away, THEN reddit goes away.

But if the only way to access their community is through some shitty app, I don’t see it stopping many people.

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    1 year ago

    They would have lost users, but it would have been a fraction of what is happening now.

    They first could have decided to restrict the API to certain licensed uses, which by itself would have forced a lot of apps to change how they do things. Reddit could also use the AI scrapers as a good reason. Then, they could have continued to do what they’ve been doing, make new features that don’t work in third party apps to push people off.