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minus-squarefizzle@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down5·19 hours agoThats not my point though. At the time reddit closed their API to third parties loads of idiots were saying it was the end of reddit. In reality reddit just sanitised their user base.
minus-squarezensanto@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·19 hours agoIn reality, reddit gave a userbase to a platform that previously had none.
minus-squarefizzle@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·17 hours ago… and yet, that’s not what im talking about.
minus-squareTheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoIf you call that sanitised…
minus-squarefizzle@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoWell they got rid of the users they didn’t want so from their perspective, yeah.
minus-squaresem@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoThey lowered the lowest common denominator by driving away the users that wouldn’t tolerate their BS.
Thats not my point though.
At the time reddit closed their API to third parties loads of idiots were saying it was the end of reddit.
In reality reddit just sanitised their user base.
In reality, reddit gave a userbase to a platform that previously had none.
… and yet, that’s not what im talking about.
If you call that sanitised…
Well they got rid of the users they didn’t want so from their perspective, yeah.
They lowered the lowest common denominator by driving away the users that wouldn’t tolerate their BS.