Make serving the same ads part of the API TOS, and let 3rd party apps go about their business
I’d fuck it up even more so more people would move to the fediverse.
"Hello Reddit. I am the new CEO of reddit. The Board of Directors have decided to fire u/spez for his incompetence, and I will now create a better future for Reddit Communities. First matter of business, all criticism of Reddit, The CEO, Website Administrators, The Board of Directors, Investors are hereby forbidden. Any mentions of the Communist/Fascist platform known as Lemmy is strictly forbidden. Any news criticizing the government is forbidden. Any posts/comments criticizing anything is forbidden, any posts/comments criticizing the people who criticize is also forbidden. You must make at least one post saying how Great of a CEO I am every day. Any violations of rules results in an IP ban, and your IP address will be published along with anyone associated user accounts.
I REPEAT: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MIGRATE LEMMY/KBIN/THE FEDIVERSE, I WILL BAN YOU. DON’T TEST US!"
Then I will take my time and slowly, very slowly censoring content, but not too fast so the posts linking to Lemmy has a chance of showing up on the front page.
Monetize the data.
Reddit is sitting on a huge pile of gold, the user aren’t happy, fine, but they still have their data
Nice try u/spez
And fuck /u/spez too