Like many people I’m here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I’ve been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed in the world that has changed the business case of these sites?

    • jibbist@kbin.social
      10·
      3 years ago

      It’s a failure of a business mind all of this.

      • Failure to understand the users
      • Failure to realise who actually makes and owns the content
      • Failure to control costs
      • Failure to adapt and change how they charge
      • Failure to use the community to improve the product

      I had a reddit account for 16 years, and as soon as Apollo stopped working a few days ago, I logged out everywhere and not going back

    • escapedgoat@kbin.social
      6·
      3 years ago

      A better option might be to require third party developers to use a Reddit based advertising API with the benefit of free API usage and revenue sharing. Everyone’s happy. Third party developers would get paid for ads, they can show more ads and use other ad providers along side Reddit if they want to, the API gets paid for by advertising revenue for all of the third party apps, Reddit gets to track it’s users by requiring API Ad calls to send a user id, etc., etc…