Apollo founder Christian Selig said he's "heartbroken" about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit's API pricing changes.

Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.

  • DrMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We’ll have to see what the long-term looks like. This was never going to be an instant death for reddit, but it absolutely could be the beginning of a slow decline into irrelevance. Digg never went offline, it just became useless

    • lastweakness@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I hope so, but I somehow doubt it. Reddit has so many casual users who were never even aware of the existence of third party apps and consider the protests to be “pointless”.

      • oderf110@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Agreed, but those users probably never contributed much. I would argue the users who bothered to seek out a third party app were more engaged and active. So those are the people who are now leaving, which may hurt Reddit disproportionately.