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[-] tobybencollaghduff@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

Realistically Reddit will survive, but it will be a zombie of its former self, kind of similar to how Digg is these days. Let's just hope it kills their valuation and /u/spez has to answer for it.

[-] AlexisLuna 8 points 1 year ago

I really hope it survives, only because I want to preserve and archive all of it's content. Sure, there's a lot of duplicate data and links to other places, but there's also a lot of unique things there. If it dies before it can be properly archived we would lose most of it, with only internet archive keeping some. That would be sad.

[-] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

I think that it's been fairly well archived prior to July 1st. Now that API access is blocked, further backing up becomes harder.

[-] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

There are some off sites reddit archives, given enough time, there will be a way to find data without visiting reddit.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

So you read reddit specifically through the way back at all times, so it'll archive as you go?

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