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The Verge reacting to Reddit's spokesperson trying to discredit them (pixel.tchncs.de)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't trust reddit reporting that value accurately. Not saying it is a huge percentage, but they likely doing some things to minimize the numerator and maximize the denominator.

But yeah, definitely about control. They could have monetized users on third party apps with more reasonable API pricing. People would probably have barely noticed and that'd be new revenue for reddit that didn't exist before.

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

If they charged 1/3 of what they are for third party clients to access the API and required Reddit Premium for API access…. They could have made a mint! Plus they could have reported huge upticks in subscribers to their service. THAT would have looked good to Wall Street for an IPO.

Instead we get this fuster cluck.