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I can't believe that they didn't do at least some research on how many people use 3rd party apps and account for those losses. The question is really how many will leave vs how many will just switch to the official app. I suspect most will just switch. It's sad really. Hopefully Infinity for Reddit (and other 3rd party apps) will support Lemmy. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
I think they did do research and third party app users make up a small enough portion of their user base that losing them is okay to Reddit.
Keep in mind how popular Reddit is -- for the most part the people left will be content with the karma bots reposting memes for the thirtieth time and there's always going to be somebody racing to be the first to post some news to a related subreddit.
I doubt it'll affect their bottom line too much and in a week it'll be back to business as usual for most subreddits.