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0 pointsguraf2y ago0 comments

Apollo had just over ONE million users. Only 540k of whom were active. And significantly less that paid the fee needed to be able to post.

And most active according to whom? People keep saying Reddit is committing suicide. Do y'all truly believe that most of Reddit useful content was created on mobile? In Apollo? The app that forced you to pay if you wanted to submit content to Reddit?

Get real.

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basch2y ago

If all the rejected apps banded together onto one shared backend, they would have more people than any of the new movers people have scattered to.

johnnyanmac2y ago

Probably. But its a prisoner dilemma and part of the reason apps shut down was because they lacked the time to react. There's no way they'd have an alternative ready "in time" even if we all agreed on an alternative and made a big push for it.

And "all agreeing" on the internet is a herculean task to begin with. Some want federation, some want centralization. Some want memes and others want serious discussion. Some don't even want to leave reddit period.

busymom02y ago

I suspect that those who bothered to go through the effort of downloading a third party app were also power users who most likely also contributed a lot more content than other users. How many content creators did Reddit lose by killing these third party apps?

Reddit doesn’t produce content of their own. If content creators and moderators took away their effort, Reddit would die.

goykasi2y ago

> How many content creators did Reddit lose by killing these third party apps?

Thats a good question. Are there any stats to show that Apollo users were significant in terms of content creation? Or that any small subset of users are significant (besides mods)?

johnnyanmac2y ago

>Do y'all truly believe that most of Reddit useful content was created on mobile?

These days where 50% or reddit traffic is on Mobile? Yes.

>In Apollo?

No.

Graffur2y ago

all of the third party apps sucked in terms of usage, hence why reddit was willing to destroy them

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0 pointsguraf2y ago0 comments

Apollo had just over ONE million users. Only 540k of whom were active. And significantly less that paid the fee needed to be able to post.

Get real.

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basch2y ago

If all the rejected apps banded together onto one shared backend, they would have more people than any of the new movers people have scattered to.

johnnyanmac2y ago

busymom02y ago

Reddit doesn’t produce content of their own. If content creators and moderators took away their effort, Reddit would die.

goykasi2y ago

> How many content creators did Reddit lose by killing these third party apps?

Thats a good question. Are there any stats to show that Apollo users were significant in terms of content creation? Or that any small subset of users are significant (besides mods)?

johnnyanmac2y ago

>Do y'all truly believe that most of Reddit useful content was created on mobile?

These days where 50% or reddit traffic is on Mobile? Yes.

>In Apollo?

No.

Graffur2y ago

all of the third party apps sucked in terms of usage, hence why reddit was willing to destroy them

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse