• DessalinesOPA
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      Yup… reddit only gains from people being forced into using their own app. Apollo and other 3rd party clients don’t track data like “time spent looking at X ad”.

      More metrics and such to sell to advertisers.

      • @_number8_
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        311 months ago

        it’s disgusting how no one wants to actually be a company that provides things anymore, but simply a company that does deals with advertisers

        • DessalinesOPA
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          1111 months ago

          Reddits innovative spirit really did die with aaron swartz, who couldn’t stand working there.

        • @salarua@sopuli.xyz
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          the admins of lemmy.ml are tankies and encourage this sort of propaganda posting. i’d highly recommend you move instances if this bothers you; sopuli.xyz and beehaw.org are both good instances

          • @tojikomori
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            • @salarua@sopuli.xyz
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              -311 months ago

              Kbin recently popped up if you want an alternative to Lemmy, but it’s still in early beta

    • @buda
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      1111 months ago

      Same here! I created an account about a year ago and now I am considering moving over full time. Does anyone have any good sub-lemmys(?) that newcomers should check out?

      • @ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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        911 months ago

        honestly I suggest just sorting by local/all for now, it’s still too small to only be looking at a few communities imo

      • @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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        511 months ago

        any good sub-lemmys(?)

        I think the “proper” term is “Communities”, in case the question mark there was indeed a “Is that the term?” 😁

    • @Segnis@beehaw.org
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      I’m betting that they plan on later announcing that paid subscription reddit accounts get free access to the API, and this absurd api pricing was just a facade to make it seem they’re being reasonable