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It’s like what cable networks did back in the day, if you want to view a channel, subscribe to it. We have come full circle.

Not that, but for the current situation:

It’s not about pursuing Reddit to take back the API pricing, at this point people are aware that that’s not gonna happen. Mods also know that if they keep the subreddit private, they’ll soon be removed. I think it’s smart that there is NSFW content in a sub that frequently is shown on r/all. NSFW subs don’t have advertisements, and this will drive away investors.

But yeah, at some point, mods should look for alternatives and just give up IMO. Stop using Reddit altogether.

It was great thinking IMO. They just care about the advertisements and investors. They don’t care about who will watch what content.

Beep. Boop. Beep.

So this is what spez meant by

Apollo-Related Subreddit Blackouts ‘Will Pass,’ No Significant Revenue Impact So Far.

Man, they really really want that cash, I don’t think Reddit cares at all at this point. They’d be happy with repost bots on their platform.

So while the masses might still show up to reddit, it’s entirely possible that the quality of the content will take a nosedive anyway.

This. This is highly likely and if this happens, Reddit will be soon reduced to something like Quora. Still will be Google’s favourite, but won’t have the quality content and/or the community it needs to become what it once was.

IMO lurkers that just browse Reddit just for getting answers to something they were searching on Google will obviously continue using the app. For them this won’t matter, and they constitute the majority of the Reddit user-base.

I guess most of the Third Party App users are somewhat tech savvy and understand that their official app is a total piece of shit. But as you said, Reddit is okay with losing these somewhat small amount of users.