I’ve been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a “they can’t make me use their shitty app!” while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away from a platform long term?
I have a feeling that most folks are more loyal to their communities than they are the company themselves - meaning that no matter how bad the corporation is, sacrificing what they truly care about is not really worth it no matter how poorly they are treated.
If the community goes away, THEN reddit goes away.
But if the only way to access their community is through some shitty app, I don’t see it stopping many people.
It is baffling to me the timeline they chose for this. If I were an investor I would see this as complete desperation. What stable company makes these decisions seemingly on a whim?
I completely agree.
I think this must be it. Desperately looking for new sources of revenue to get into profitability quickly - so they can meet their timeline on the IPO and make up for lost value in their recently cut valuation.
It’s gaming an algorithm.
Big deals like this aren’t made off one person’s decision, there’s all these metrics that are supposed to show the health of a company. But like anything, if you know the metrics you can just focus on that even if it’s the literal worst thing to do. It pumps the metrics.
They’re not trying to keep reddit alive forever, they want to juice the metrics so it’s worth the absolute most on IPO day. It’s all they care about.