• WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    The pricing Reddit is charging is obscene and would mean that Apollo would be forced to pay $20 million per year to keep the app running. Other popular third-party apps would have to pay similarly outrageous costs. It’s clearly a blatant attempt to run them off Reddit so the site can force users to use its first-party app instead.

    I wish all articles covering the debacle but it at clearly as this.

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      1 year ago

      They have something else in common: Bots.

      And then there’s one more thing in common: they get paid for bot activity just the same as organic activity so they’re incentivized to under-report the problem.

      Before the IPO happens, they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can’t be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.

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        1 year ago

        they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can’t be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.

        I must be having a pre-morning-coffee dumb, but how would this extrapolation realistically work, in your opinion? Those install numbers aren’t exactly… exact, from what I understand.