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I mean, they wont lose any money, right? Maybe a few hours of bad publicity but people will move on?
It depends on what Reddit users do. If people stop *browsing* reddit, then reddit ads get fewer views and fewer clicks. Indeed, this is one of the reasons why they want to kill some of the APIs since they allow certain readers to feed reddit content without ads. So, sure, us closing a sub probably won't hurt *unless* doing so changes traffic patterns or, at least, threatens to.
Also, as the coordinators have suggested, this short blackout might be a prelude to a longer one. After all, if the API changes do some of the things that we're worried about, they may actually make moderating /r/philosophy just infeasible for us. This isn't just a bit of performance on our part.
Comment by [deleted] at 08/06/2023 at 22:37 UTC
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If people stop browsing reddit,
Yeah, I dont think they will. lol
We can only hopium.
How many desktop users? How many default app users?
How many actual apollo users?