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The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark | Many major third-party apps are finally shutting down. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology
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After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps, including Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader.

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[–] _number8_ 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

the attitude is so fucking weird. why are they forcing us to comply with their garbage? shouldn't the site want users to like the change? or a change to be legitimately built with users in mind?

this new web paradigm is deeply fucked

[–] berno 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretending to care about your users was a zero interest rate phenomenon

[–] browslings 8 points 2 years ago

Hmm, that's an interesting way to look at. It does seem to track that as interest rates went up so did enshittification. Too bad the reverse won't be true if rates go back down, all the big players will probably double down on cashing out if they're still around by then.