Is this why reddit went dark? They need their API to police you for wrongthink? 👮♀️ 👮♀️
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The funny part is that allegedly these censorship apps leeching off of Reddit's API are more profitable than Reddit itself.
I'm still shaking my head over the CEO of Reddit coming out and saying "we're not profitable" while they're getting ready to IPO.
Isn't that how almost all of these big internet companies work?
They are giant money sinks and when they run out of money they start a new round of investments ... to pay off the previous investors. But it's totally not a pyramid scheme because they're planning on becoming profitable ... eventually.
It is easy to be profitable with a website, but the infestation that is currently killing reddit is allergic to anything remotely capitalistic and wants everything for free.
Yeah, but they don't normally come right out and openly admit they're just lighting piles of money on fire.
this. they take money from dark money political activism groups like media matters. there was even a memo that leaked on it around 2018 or so. it specifically said they're going after moderation roles on all the biggest groups on social media, and then will use tech to make it impossible to post anything that isn't in line with their political goals.
the censorship tech they're running uses the APIs so much to constantly scan all the comments and all the edits. if the API starts costing money, they will literally spend millions more a month because they're powermodding over 10k subs, and their censorship tech is scanning everything.
THAT is why these subs are going dark. it has nothing to do with some independent app being better than reddit's official dogshit app.