• Illuminostro@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You know, I realize all the people who put in money want a return on their investment. I get it.

    But what I can’t forgive is killing 3rd party clients when your official client sucks all the donkey balls in every reality in every universe.

    You couldn’t come to a reasonable and sane fee for 3rd party clients? Barring that, you couldn’t just buy a superior client like RiF and bolt your name on it?

    Fuck Spez.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      There are a hundred different ways they could have reached a compromise on third party app support if it was just about API limits. They killed it because they want to gather mobile app telemetry like everyone else does these days.

      • Littleborat@feddit.de
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        10 months ago

        Telemetry is telling them their app sucks and that people try it x period of time and then uninstall it.

        It is so terrible that I log into reddit once a week on my pc.

    • Nils@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      That’s the thing. I get that people using the service on a third party client and not seeing ads is hurting their bottom line as they use bandwidth and not make money. But just banning them outright is a shit move. Ideally they would’ve made it part of Reddit Premium to make that a bit more worthwhile.

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Of the three people involved in Reddit’s creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit’s greater vision.

    Swartz was a far better person.

        • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Your source admits Spez was a jailbait mod. MAYBE he was made one without knowing, but he DEFINITELY could have removed himself and didn’t.

          Spez was a jailbait mod for years. That’s a fact.

          • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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            10 months ago

            Maybe he was made one without him knowing…

            He could have removed himself immediately upon noticing…

            Source for the fact he noticed?

            Ewww I’m defending Spez

            • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              10 months ago

              As an engineer myself: if I was ceo of my own social media company, I’d periodically go through my account at a fine-grained level and see if there was anything weird going on. Hell, I’d probably use some internal APIs and webhooks or whatever to track and categorize my profile’s interaction with the network at large.

              I find it unlikely that he had no idea about this.