[dsm4ck]

I really hope one of the bigger third party apps finds a way to just point their front end to a reddit clone and eat reddits lunch.

[jacooper]

I keep hearing this, but how many of reddit users actually use third party apps?

If Twitter proved anything, its that its really hard to kill a popular social media network, no matter how badly managed or drama filled it is.

[thomastjeffery]

A lot of people use third-party apps.

Reddit's app has terrible UI/UX, as does the website redesign (new.reddit.com, which is the default www.reddit.com). The only good UI/UX is old.reddit.com, which isn't very good on mobile.

[miroljub]

Twitter is not badly managed. It managed to grow to the point of being indispensable, and drama is just one of the reasons why it keeps being popular.

[Gareth321]

I believe the estimate is 18-20%. This is roughly 86 billion monthly active users. More than enough to populate an active community. I hazard to guess that third party app users are also more active.

[dvngnt_]

you don't have to kill a popular social media network, you just need enough people to leave to an alternative to make them viable

all together the 3rd party app users and res users consist of millions of the most dedicated tech savvy users that will switch.

myspace and digg technically exist but they're no longer relevant. Reddit is moving in the same direction

Lemmy/kbin is more popular than it has even been and the main lemmy instance is overloaded.

July when the actual apps shut down we'll see a huge migration to the fediverse

[ananth99]

I moved from Reddit's official App to Apollo about 2 months ago because of huge battery drain and haven't looked back since.

[djbusby]

Some subs are posting metrics for this. The few I've seen show the largest slice is 3PA.

[shmatt]

or you know, just ask people to pay $2.50/month to cover their share? I have a weird feeling this is exactly what the Apollo dev will be doing. In order to charge everyone a monthly fee, they need to shut down Apollo and create a new app

[moneywoes]

Isn’t it 80-20 rule? If the content creators don’t post there they won’t have engagement