• HollowNotion@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Am I missing something?

    Yeah. They want to kill the third party apps so everyone has to use the ad-supported Reddit app.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not clear why they don’t just serve ads in the API and require them to be displayed, or implement profit-sharing with 3rd party devs (as in, they pay reddit a portion of their income from ads/subscriptions). The only clear reasons would be for control and to pump up numbers for the IPO.