• Xylight@lemm.ee
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    26 days ago

    to play devil’s advocate, from reddit’s view those third party apps were just using server resources and making them no money.

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      26 days ago

      Except you could post and comment through that medium, increasing their traffic, content and engagement without costing them a cent in development. Then they waited ten years beyond necessary to realise an app was indeed a good idea and fucked every user and developer to get theirs out and in front of people.

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        26 days ago

        That’s a good point, i didn’t consider the value of the content it creates