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Why doesnt reddit make an app worth using? Oh wait right they cant

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I mean, to seriouspost for a minute, of course reddit could buy out an existing 3rd-party app or hire enough codecels to make a good app.

But they don't really care. Reddit is a powerhouse of attracting users. Reddit has gazillions of addicted everyday users. Reddit doesn't need a better app to attract and retain users, because reddit has all the users, creating content that attracts new and more-addicted users. Improving the user-experience is a "nice to have", not a "need to have", for reddit.

What reddit needs is not a better user experience, what reddit needs is better ways to monetize the users it has. Because reddit is currently not profitable. Its owners are paying money every month to keep it afloat, in the hopes that it will one day generate enough money to pay for itself.

The smelly basement-dwellers who spend 16 hours a day on reddit, conducting multiple debates over various subgenres of RPG figurine-painting, while simultaneously modding various rule 34 subs related to underage anime characters...nobody cares about them. And those are the only people complaining.

The 10 million children and olds who check reddit for 10 minutes at a time and who click on sponsored links--those are the people that reddit dot com cares about.

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Reddit doesnt need to be profitable, its a great place for feds to churn out consensus.

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If you think that the feds care about building consensus among the terminally-online loli addicts on reddit, then you are the joke.

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Most of reddit is ai bot farms and federal agents of various stripes. Your insistence that there are gazillions of users is meaningless when the majority are shadowbanned into their own instance of reddit

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:marseymeds:

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Why would they risk letting anyone comment? Why not just let ai regurgitate content from the last two decades

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Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures.

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What reddit needs is not a better user experience, what reddit needs is better ways to monetize the users it has. Because reddit is currently not profitable. Its owners are paying money every month to keep it afloat, in the hopes that it will one day generate enough money to pay for itself.

they could have stayed operating it like they used to -- old.reddit.com style, 20 employees. no censorship beyond what the law demands.

of course then they might not have gained a billion dollar valuation. but in today's slightly higher interest regime nobody is willing to buy reddit anyway.

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>imagine using apps instead of old.reddit

cbm

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The day old. stops working is the day i stop visiting reddit for good

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Seethe.

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>You fill a site with communists who don’t want to work and think everything should be free and then you’re surprised when the reality of running a business outrages them? Stop trying to have it both ways.

Yalled by slackernews commies

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Darn really? He's pretty much right. Much of reddit is like /pol/ for leftoids, so it's not surprising to see their anti-"capitalist" userbase rage against profitability.

More and more, I view slackernews types as another breed of leddit.

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Apollo was pretty good tbh. I don't understand why he can't just charge a monthly subscription service to use the app. Or raise the initial one-time fee.

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>paying to use an app to browse reddit monthly.

:#soysnoo4:

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I already own the app sucka. I only pay monthly subscriptions to Filmic Pro, Disney+, Netflix, Max (RIP HBO), Amazon Prime, Costco, Bay Club, Apple Music, and other basic stuff. I'm not going to pay a monthly subscription to browse a social media site lol. What do I look like, a schmuck?

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Dis neighbor buying a new annual costco membership each month

!r-slurs

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Costco is worth it

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>What do I look like, a schmuck?

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16863621055860896.webp

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holy shit just buy a VPN wtf is wrong with you

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:marseybacking#intobush:

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:#marseydisagree:

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>What do I look like, a schmuck?

If you have to ask you already know the answer

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What do I look like, a schmuck?

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I only pay monthly subscriptions to Filmic Pro, Disney+, Netflix, Max (RIP HBO), Amazon Prime, Costco, Bay Club, Apple Music, and other basic stuff.

:marseylaugh:

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He said even if he went to only paid users only hed have to charge such absurd prices still he would have no users.

This entire thing is just a guise to force people into using the reddit branded app, lol.

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He has said he could but his app is paid yearly and since he only had 30 days notice he'd have to eat the api costs until all of the subscriptions renew.

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That's the problem with social media sites. If you put of a payment screen in front of your users, they will have to ask themselves whether reddit adds even a single dollar of value to their lives. Best not to let anyone ask themselves such a question.

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The frothing, basement-dwelling, virgin army of reddit didn't find the condescending, contradictory bullshit from spez attractive

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Since when are reddit servers expensive to run?

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Since they started hosting videos themselves, probably. Plus they have 2000 employees, not sure what their average salary is but that adds up.

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Everyone angrily commenting at the CEO of a tech company smells bad

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