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Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it's not good (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pricing Reddit is charging is obscene and would mean that Apollo would be forced to pay $20 million per year to keep the app running. Other popular third-party apps would have to pay similarly outrageous costs. It’s clearly a blatant attempt to run them off Reddit so the site can force users to use its first-party app instead.

I wish all articles covering the debacle but it at clearly as this.

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They have something else in common: Bots.

And then there's one more thing in common: they get paid for bot activity just the same as organic activity so they're incentivized to under-report the problem.

Before the IPO happens, they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can't be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.

[–] dnzm@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

they have to rid themselves of third-party clients so that the app store numbers can't be extrapolated to verify site-wide user activity.

I must be having a pre-morning-coffee dumb, but how would this extrapolation realistically work, in your opinion? Those install numbers aren't exactly... exact, from what I understand.