Reddit mods are calling for an ‘affordable return’ for third-party apps

They want Reddit to respond by June 29th.

Mereo 88 points 3 years ago

sigh, it's hopeless, it will not happen. Reddit is now looking to fill a "Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Targeting" position (https://boards.greenhouse.io/reddit/jobs/5009252). Which means that it wants people to use its app so that it's machine learning algorithm can target ads to users and make money for its future investors.

We're talking about a capitalist platform. Reddit's whole purpose right now is to go public (IPO). Lemmy/Kbin are the only free platforms.

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wvenable 17 points 3 years ago

They have hundreds of mobile developers and can't make a decent app or features anyone wants -- I'm going to guess that whatever executive pet project that one is won't ever see any reasonable output either.

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Bozicus 7 points 3 years ago

Yeah, it is kind of shocking to think the company has been around for 18 years, and their app is still so bad people will pay for third party apps instead.

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RedditRefugeeTom 5 points 3 years ago

Reddit would've been better off buying out the most profitable/popular third party app, making minor housekeeping changes (app name, app logo, etc) and moving on. Instead they show themselves in the foot a little.

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SkyNTP 2 points 3 years ago

It's a "bad" app to you because you are not the paying customer. For the paying customer (advertisers), it's a great app.

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Jongaros 6 points 3 years ago

There is no use for having a good first party app when you can just kill all competition. Reddit does not need to care anything other than making money through their apps.

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NightOwl 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, and the end game is data collection. Doesn't matter if users complain. As long as the users of the official app grows it is a success.

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