Today I Learned (TIL)

I just don’t understand the thought process. They could’ve just shelled out $10M for Apollo and made that the official Reddit app. Then give users the choice of ads or pay for ad free experience.

so basically they’re making a massive gamble that most people will just switch over to their garbage app. Maybe they will, but for sure the power users, big sub moderators & regular posters are all coming to Lemmy. You know, all the people that made Reddit worth visiting.

Personally I think this will be the end of Reddit.

*TIL that 70% of US traffic on reddit WAS from users on a mobile device

Until July 1 2023 🪦

Relevant screenshot for those interested

The remaining 30% computer users might be me googling all my IT problems

Exactly why reddit wanted all 3rd party apps gone. All they could see was dollar signs going down the toilet.

Back when I used reddit... weird saying I know, I consumed Reddit on my phone, my ipad, and desktop in various combinations, pretty much constantly. Phone/ipad during work, and additional desktop use after. Desktop using Reddit Enhancement Suite (unusable without really), and Apollo for mobile. Spez made going cold turkey on Reddit stupid easy for this heavy user of over 10 years.

It's like going to your favorite donut shop every day for a decade, where your on good terms with the employees, but the boss is shit but you hardly ever see him so it's ok. Then one day, instead of the usual server, Spez shows up, and hands you your favorite donut with a scoop of shit on top, and says that's how they serve them now. Yeah, I'll go somewhere else, thanks.

Worth mentioning that mobile ≠ app. Many people use Reddit in their browsers. Or the official app for that matter. This article doesn't really give those numbers which I'm sure unfortunately place the third party app users in a smaller minority. Still, I never used a third party app personally and I was still outraged enough at Reddit's behavior to leave. Hopefully more will follow suit.

Spez really killed the whole damn site, the greedy little pigboy

I uninstalled boost today, can't wait for Boost for Lemmy. Although Jebora is pretty nice too.

I just deleted Apollo off my phone, so I guess I'm done with Reddit for the most part.

That makes sense. I'm not sitting in front of my computer all day, but I always have my phone.

Switching my entire mobile usage over to lemmy is easily 90-95% of my social media time.

I really hope it drops a lot, but it probably won't :/

Woweeee fucking sucks to be Reddit rn lol

Not anymore LOL

Well, not anymore!

I will not sit at desk to read . Smartphone are just way better for this kind of task . Most people access the internet with a smartphone ,not a PC tower.

And 50% of mobile users are on a toilet

This is true for most online platforms. I work in Online Education as a SaaS Admin for LMS system hosting and at a conference I went to 4 or 5 years ago the UAE did an in depth presentation on their online academic outreach program. The adoption of education on mobile phones was astounding and the only other platform that mattered metric wise was Window PCs and it was a distant second.

And apparently (was) almost 84% here in Canada!

Yup. I work at a computer most of the day but there was no way in hell I was going to use my monitored work computer to browse Reddit.

I just wonder how much of a impact to daily engagement that the lack of third party will affect the company now. The blackouts were never going to be effective but combine that with a downward trend of engagement might be enough to fuck the leadership over.

Still, this seems like a nice place to be even if Reddit is forced to pull it's head out of its tech bro ass.

Not surprised, my personal browsing was almost entirely on mobile devices and 3rd party apps. My work browsing on computer is mainly for IT purposes and not logged in. Some subreddits are far better than the official support communities and they often come up early in google results.

not surprising, people have their phones on them much more often than their computers. Personally I browse reddit from my phone 95% of the time, only using desktop for the odd moderating duty.

I could never get use to the desktop layout.

I believe it, when I first started using Reddit in 2008 it was almost entirely through desktop. By a few days ago, I had flipped to almost entirely using mobile. My habits changed a lot in 15 years

That’s gonna drop. Right?