Or that he liked Nickelback?

I’ll see past many things, but Nickelback?

Not even once.

Considering I deal with people who blast their music from their phone speakers without headphones, I do not want to know what over-bassed track they’re listening to.

…my bones hurt, now.

Standard business practice.

• Get it out there, tout it as the new biggest thing. Most people won’t know it’s not busted.
• Improve said item once the company behind it actually figures out what they’re doing.
• Say it’s better, when it’s basically the original thing you promised.
• ???
• Profit.

As you can see, Twitter is now firmly in Act II: ‘Finding Out’

Just an ‘Oh crap investors can see r/sinkpissers shutitdownshutitdown’

When toxic idiots on Twitter drive everyone off, they’ll be the only ones left.

Then they’ll turn on each other, harassing bots and trolls who’ll scream that nothing’s being done because they are being dragged.

Then when only the most toxic are left, and they have no one else to intimidate, harass, or make miserable; they’ll leave.

Seconding this. They’ll likely install their own mods and force-reopen the sub, since it’s one of the bigger ones.

Same with r/technology, and other main subs, id assume

While tangentially related, if this shouldnt be here, let me know.

Reddit also appears to be experimenting with disabling mobile web access to circumvent ads.

Sync for Reddit is also shutting down on June 30th.

ReddPlanet also announced closure on June 30th.

Reddit creates API exemption for noncommercial accessibility apps (Ehhhh, grain of salt on this one. I’m getting a lot of conflicting reports.)

Relay is also out.

EDITS: fixed Sync names, added ReddPlanet. Will keep adding as I see them.

I may have worded it wrong (mainly because morning coffee takes forever to hit me). I meant to say that I don’t think those hot-tub streamers are bad because of what they do, I just don’t think they belong on Twitch.

IF that’s something they can do? I don’t know. I don’t know a thing about backend work on third-party programs.

There’s a part of the that thinks Reddit is the same way and just went “Hell with it, use us or nothing at all” and nukes the whole API except for the big-rollers.

I wouldn’t even know who would pay such a high price for that anyway, outside of advertisers and algorithm scrapers.

The line has to go up.

The issue is that big companies have shareholders, and those shareholders don’t demand that the company stay solvent, but that they achieve year-over-year growth. Even minimal growth like 2-3% over LY is considered a failure to most shareholder groups, depending on the size of the company. So eventually they have to squeeze every last drop out of the userbase/product to keep the line going up, so shareholders don’t sell and bail.

Now, with Twitter there’s a whole litany of poitical tin-foil hat theories I can shout out, but this isn’t the place for it.

Reddit, Facebook, and Twitch: it’s money.

Reddit is getting as much money as it can shored up with Venture Capital before it brings out it’s Initial Public Offering (basically going public for people to buy stock in). High IPO, more perceived value, more space for advertisers, people are going to buy in. EDIT: I believe this is why they’re making their API pricing so high (hence the whole current Reddit situation right now) so that they can get more ads viewed.

Facebook: I don’t even know why people use FB, but im going to guess it’s just ads.

Twitch: Again, Ad revenue. Slam as many first-party ads as you can so you get the money from advertisers. Keep the space clean and homogenized so Pepsi doesn’t feel bad about putting ads in a video before a hot-tub streamer. (not that they’re a bad thing, just using an example)

Everything comes down to the line. And it has to keep going up.

The old saying ‘If the site doesn’t charge anything, you’re the product they’re selling’ just keeps coming back.