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View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API
Alternative Hypothesis:
Reddit implements these changes, keeps the third party apps alive and accessing all the same content that official app users see (it’s all driven by oauth and json dictionaries as far as the server cares; the coding in the client doesn’t affect their viewing privileges)
AND
Reddit leverages Reddit Premium.
Right now, the business model for Reddit Premium is this:
Content Creators share content on Reddit
Users buy Reddit coins to give awards / have Reddit coins as part of Reddit Premium, and give awards to content.
Content creators then have an ad-free experience of Reddit.
If you have Reddit Premium, you can see https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/premium/
Which is a listing of all the subreddits which are Reddit Premium Exclusive.
And if you don’t have Premium, let me tell you: it is a ghost town.
There is no model and no incentive for people to make Premium Exclusive subreddits / communities.
That doesn’t have to stay that way.
If someone is an adult, and wants to see Premium NSFW content, they don’t look at Reddit for that content.
Reddit hosts teasers, and the paid content is hosted on *other platforms*
Other platforms which have revenue streams.
Reddit is hosting teaser content for content producers who get paid by other platforms, with an audience who pass through Reddit to give their cash to other platforms.
That doesn’t have to remain that state of affairs.
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Apollo and the other third party clients — who, as far as Reddit cares, are the people who have to meet App Store guidelines and local accessibility regulations and local GDPR blah blah blah — are doing Reddit’s heavy lifting for them, in getting an audience to their content. They have zero intention of choking them out. Unless they’re seeing that the third party is neutralising advert views.
Comment by itskdog at 18/04/2023 at 20:32 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
And of course the list of premium subreddits is still Old Reddit. Just like the subreddit comment feed.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/04/2023 at 00:58 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Unless they’re seeing that the third party is neutralising advert views.
And they already are.