I think this will be the true litmus test. There’s clearly a lot of us concerned and have mostly moved on, but we are probably a minority… The rest of the larger user base, I wonder how much of them will just move back to official apps after Apollo/RIF cuts off service after July 1st, and then observe the outcomes. Part of me really want to see the site go way of the dodo, but part of me thinks they’ll linger around like Twitter does, and eventually they’ll acquire new users that doesn’t know/care for anything beyond what the royal court has to offer.
@chiisana@PBJ I’m surprised none of the 3rd party apps have either tried finding a similar app like Reddit and redesigning their app around that, or try to create their own Reddit alternative, I mean, they DO have the infrastructure to do it, (especially Christian), they would just need to shuffle things around and tweak their apps a bit.
I think this will be the true litmus test. There’s clearly a lot of us concerned and have mostly moved on, but we are probably a minority… The rest of the larger user base, I wonder how much of them will just move back to official apps after Apollo/RIF cuts off service after July 1st, and then observe the outcomes. Part of me really want to see the site go way of the dodo, but part of me thinks they’ll linger around like Twitter does, and eventually they’ll acquire new users that doesn’t know/care for anything beyond what the royal court has to offer.
@chiisana @PBJ I’m surprised none of the 3rd party apps have either tried finding a similar app like Reddit and redesigning their app around that, or try to create their own Reddit alternative, I mean, they DO have the infrastructure to do it, (especially Christian), they would just need to shuffle things around and tweak their apps a bit.