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Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits(www.techzine.eu)

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Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API

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minikieff@lemmy.world
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$10/mo is probably in the ballpark.

I honestly don’t think the pricing was unreasonable. The main issue was the execution.

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Only reasonable for an individual, bulk tools need more juce than a reg user, reddit holds a lot of cards for what to do to adress the power users

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minikieff@lemmy.world
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A lot of the mod tools were exempted. I imagine the ones that weren’t didn’t even try in protest.

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Hello Hotel@lemmy.world
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A lot of power reddot has over mod tools that want to stay now. No wonder devs left

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