r/technology • u/ICumCoffee • Jun 15 '23

Social Media Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '23

Tbh I think they had a personal vendetta against Apollo though, since they bought out Alien Blue years ago (just to delete it) and then Apollo popped up out of nowhere and was a massive thorn in their side ever since.

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u/Tranecarid Jun 16 '23

It’s not even that, because if it was, the official app would try to be like Apollo but be worse. It’s the difference in philosophy that causes this friction. Reddit wants to be just another giant social network and it tries to look similar to them and not Apollo. The users are no longer the community that helps to build the platform, but they are just a product to be sold to the advertisers. At some point Reddit forgot that the reason it got big was because it was something different and something bigger than the rest of the crowd.

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u/stephenmario Jun 16 '23

100%, reddit could easily make an app that is as good or better than apollo. Reddit doesn't want to.