Addressing the community about changes to our API
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>How do you address the concerns of users who feel that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community...

How do you address the concerns of users who feel that Reddit has become increasingly profit-driven and less focused on community engagement?

We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.

  • CletusVanDamme@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    All spez wants it to keep things going until the IPO where he gets paid big. He’s doing these changes to appeal to IPO purchasers and “maximize” the value.

    • Korgen@lemmy.korgen.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      He just publicly admitted Reddit is not profitable and he’s mad that third party apps are. That IPO is not going to go well lol.

      • dogmuffins@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        They would have to show their books as part of an IPO anyway, and everyone already knows its not profitable. It’s not like he accidentally dropped a big secret here.

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
      0·
      2 years ago

      I keep reading this and I’m not 100% he is maximizing IPO value. I think he’s ultimately doing more harm than good.

      • XLRV@lemmy.ml
        0·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, honestly I can’t see how good this can look from an investor perspective.

        • dogmuffins@lemmy.ml
          0·
          2 years ago

          This will ultimately increase the number of users who can be advertised to.

          For every person who is engaged about this there are a dozen that don’t understand what an API is and will happily switch over to another app from the app store if it has cat gifs.

          • XLRV@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 years ago

            True, there will be enough users that doesn’t care about all of this, but there’s still a non negligible part of user (and those are probably the best contributors), and more importantly moderators that will leave Reddit. It will probably disrupt the site, without all of the leaving moderators, Reddit will quickly become the wild west, and it would be really difficult for them to moderate the site themselves, there’s probably users that would want to replace the leaving moderators, but not enough.

            Honestly I won’t care that much when it comes, because the “new” Reddit will not be the same Reddit that I loved.

            I hope they’ll reap what they sow tho.