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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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One is focused on Quality-of-Life and features, the other is a vehicle for shoving as much telemetry, ads and tracking down the user's throat as is humanly possible.
Reddit could've most likely made a killing off of allowing third-party apps to operate as normal for users that had Reddit Gold, for instance. It would have been a mostly-acceptable middle ground in my view. Except they decided to instead double down on presenting wholly unreasonable licensing terms to third-party app developers.
The intent as far as I can tell was never to allow third-party apps on the ecosystem - it was to extinguish the third-party app ecosystem under the pretense of there being an alternative. The forced first-party app is critical for them to milk out as much money as they can from advertisers etc ahead of the IPO.
I would have paid for reddit gold if it came with 3rd party app usage.
Instead I deleted my account and wiped as much as possible before I left.
Literally in the exact same boat. Even tried preaching that idea all over reddit with no success. Now I'm here and prefer it. Fuck reddit and fuck spez