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by FargaColora 1496 days ago
old.reddit is will be removed soon, that is inevitable.

A bigger storm will come when the API is removed. That is also inevitable when they go public. The API allows third-party apps, which takes away people downloading the official app.

For 10 years Reddit has been collecting high quality UGC. The next step is to lock all the content behind the official app. That is the obvious goal.

I consider Reddit to be a sociopath/psychopath corporation. The company is designed to make money from people screaming divisive hate at each other. The front page is magnitudes worse than Facebook/Twitter. Assume they will do the very worst thing imaginable, as they have been doing for 5 years now.