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(Discussion) Would you pay for Reddit Premium IF it allowed you to continue using your favorite app? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Thanks4Nothing@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn't want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.

Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?

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[–] empyrean@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, bridge is already burnt.

[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No. They're allowing more and more spam outside of their ad platform. They're actively user-hostile. I already don't like it for free, why the hell would I want to pay for it?

[–] cocolopez@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No, once they showed what they're up to, this could happen again in some new kind of paywall. Really hope Lemmy continue it's ascension

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If this was an option, Reddit would have done it.

But, their goal here is to completely deplatform 3rd party apps, and my assumption is that they are doing this so that their number of active users can't be verified and those numbers can be pumped up--by counting bots and all sorts of crap.

This is the same tactic Twitter used when they were negotiating with Elon. More "users" is more money.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It would depend on the price, and also we would need to live in a hypothetical world where Reddit hasn't done any of the stupid shit they've done in the past month. As of right now, I can't imagine giving Reddit my money knowing what a PoS spez is

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