IMO, what reddit has done is much worse than what digg did but their user base is also significantly larger than digg's was. I hope that reddit will see a hit but I expect they will survive this.

I do wonder how many content creators and moderators they are losing though. It she's likely that content creators and moderators were probably more reliant on third party apps than general users.

[–] DrSanta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Potentially. Though Reddit claims that the vast majority (like 90+%) used the official app. Of course, if such was true then you'd expect they wouldn't pull the rug out from under everyone.

I can believe a majority used the official up. Maybe even a supermajority. 80% maybe.

But throwing a fit over 1-10% of your user base and doubling down when that low percentage doesn't agree? I dunno.

It's a big enough number that made them want to kill the third-party apps but it's small enough that they felt they could survive the backlash.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess time will tell. Personally, I wouldn't continue moderating without third party apps given the lack of tools. I hadn't moderated anything in a while but the third party tools were always so much better when I did moderate things.

[–] DrSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I can't speak much on modding. I was a mod of a sub that only lasted a day or two and was shutdown. So my experience was very limited