• Holomew@kbin.social
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    I’ll go even further and say people were mostly upset about the API because of its harm to 3rd party apps. Having 3rd party apps isn’t even really the norm for websites, but reddit’s app is awful. If they had a decent app, this probably never became a big deal in the first place.

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      exactly. the apps made the site useful on mobile.

      the reddit app makes the reddit experience awful. and so does their default mobile site which harasses you to use the app.

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      Twitter used to have a ton. I used to use one for Twitch myself but it doesn’t work anymore. I browse YouTube exclusively through a 3rd-party app that supports several other sites as well. 3rd-party social media site apps being rare is a new phenomenon

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      I mean honestly, people keep talking about apps for accessing kbin/Lemmy, but I’m not in any hurry. The browser interface works fine on both desktop and mobile, so I don’t need an app.

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      Not just that it was awful, Reddit was way fucking late to the game. The official app didn’t launch until what, 2016 or 2017? They were at least five years behind the 3PAs and like 10 years behind smartphone apps in general.

      It’s a fair bet that most people who used 3PAs to access Reddit did so because they had been using it since before the official app and saw no reason to change.

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        They literally bought a third party app that they rebranded as the official one. Reddit only has an app because of third party apps.