[anoonmoose]

One thing I've been a little surprised by is the idea that, even if the API pricing was reasonable and these apps weren't shutting down, that they wouldn't be heavily and severely impacted by the fact that 3rd party apps will not be able to access NSFW content. Reddit has a LOT of porn on it. Preventing 3rd party apps from accessing that content is a pretty good indicator to me that they're going to completely get rid of that content, eventually. People keep making Digg references, but I'm not sure the real answer won't actually be Tumblr.

[pointlessone]

I don't think porn is the primary use of Reddit for many users. There are other source out there and it's relatively easy to replace it. At least for the more generic genres.

What Reddit good for is communities. Especially niche communities (including NSFW ones). That will be much harder to replace for users. But also Reddit is miserable in its new web UI and mobile app. It's so much worse than many third-party apps that, I believe, most users will likely quit Reddit altogether.

[garbagecoder]

I don't have any proof and if I knew where to get it I would supply it, but reddit's porn scene is huge. There are almost 5m people just on /r/gonewild

[masklinn]

> One thing I've been a little surprised by is the idea that, even if the API pricing was reasonable and these apps weren't shutting down, that they wouldn't be heavily and severely impacted by the fact that 3rd party apps will not be able to access NSFW content.

Oh no they absolutely would be. And that ad-supported application won't be allowed anymore either.

But given the API pricing both are second-rate issues, they don't matter because the API pricing makes third-party application non-viable anyway. You don’t worry about your cancerous moles when your femoral artery has been cut through.

[kredd]

Side question, how did twitter survive through its porn filled timelines and advertisers being ok with it?

[Retr0id]

They recently made it impossible to view NSFW-flagged content from a logged-out session, which makes me wonder if they're struggling with it too (this may also be a geo-restricted thing, I'm visiting from a UK IP address).

[majani]

Twitter is way smaller than the media makes it seem. It's in the second tier of social media, along with Twitch, Snap and Pinterest. It's not a major marketing channel for any of the big brands with strict brand safety guidelines. Note that pushback on NSFW content is usually just a price negotiation tactic of big brands on their biggest marketing channels

[TrainedMonkey]

> they're going to completely get rid of that content, eventually

Or they want to capture all the ad revenue for that content and have a plausible excuse to ban 3rd party access.

[yamazakiwi]

That's a good point. I use twitter primarily for adult content and still get ads.

I've never consumed NSFW content on a NSFW sub on reddit. I do however run into NSFW content all over the site on random posts across reddit. Some much more NSFW than others. I wonder how they will define that content.

[Invictus0]

I'm a new twitter user but I have literally never seen NSFW content on twitter other than occasional war clips from Ukraine. I mostly use twitter for financial info. Compare that to Instagram where you just get bombarded with it.

[matheusmoreira]

Reddit is an advertising company. Of course they're going to get rid of it.