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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.
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.
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.
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.