Apollo was already a nice app so why didn’t reddit just buy apollo and integrate ads into it and just keep the features that made everyone happy.

  • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Apollo is an app that exists to give a great user experience for reddit.

    The official app exists to ensure you get advertising and allow reddit to extract as much personal data from you as possible

  • Zedd_Prophecy@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think it’s a move to monetize but without any mindful strategy whatever to utilize the strength of the platform or to maintain the integrity thereof. In other words “Elon did it so we do it too” .