this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A reminder that if spez was really concerned about costs and income from the reddit API feeds, he's looking in the wrong place.

The third party apps exist to help reddit thrive, aren't making much money, and take small amounts of targeted data.

Otoh, you have sites like Google and ChatGPT that are sucking up everything with a gigantic firehose, are using that data to develop and populate their own non-reddit products, and are starting to make money off the products they developed from the data they took from reddit, that reddit paid the costs of for them to steal.

spez really fucked up with understanding the actual real value of reddit then, and he's equally mistaken about the value of both third-party apps and the internet behemoths now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He wants that google trickle down economy.

[–] Mentrix 7 points 1 year ago

Always those damn 3rd party devs, trying to make shitty platforms better and oftentimes even refusing to take donations. Who do they think they are?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Welllll, technically, Reddit is in the red according to apex, so it's not making any money.

[–] TheGayDude 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Im suprised this isnt getting downvoted

[–] Dick_Justice 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheGayDude 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dick_Justice 1 points 1 year ago

Just guessing. I'm not a very good guesser though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's ironic my dude

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's in jest, but there's a sliver of truth in it because the 3rd party apps were profitable and Reddit isn't. This is due to Reddit being incompetent rather than 3rd party apps being greedy however.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like it’s not accurate then because they’re getting some profits in this drawing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Social media platforms generally only lose money.