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Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO (www.forbes.com)

submitted 8 months ago by KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 286 points 8 months ago (36 children)

Different goals. The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

I guarantee you a good chunk of that R&D money is for making ads more profitable and other monetization.

[–] Kinglink@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago (10 children)

The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

Spot fucking on.

Ever have a good app? Something you like using but it's by a corporation but that's ok, because it's a good app and does what you want? And then they start adding more features to it, and it slows down, and it's more annoying and it keeps offering services you don't want, and it changes and it morphs and it becomes a shit app.

Hell I've watched Whisk become something I liked using to something worthless now it's Samsung food... Switched to using CopyMeThat which actually also gets me recipes from sites that you can't just read the recipes from, and that's ALL it does (well recipe book/shopping cart/meal planning, which is what it's designed for.)

I'm just sick of "How do we make more money" instead of just being an app that does what it says. Gaming is going down the same hole, sadly.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is the inevitable long term goal and result of capitalism.

[–] Morefan@retrolemmy.com 2 points 8 months ago

This is the inevitable long term goal and result of CORRUPTION.

I'm not advocating for capitalism.

Corruption exists in both capitalistic and socialist systems.

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