Holy Shit - talk about being out of sync with your userbase and community…
THAT statement might kill the heart of reddit as much as anything else.
Next up: CEO of MSNBC wants to turn the unhoused populations of major cities into dog food and has a lot of respect for Ruppert Murdock’s journalistic integrity.
so, as a rough back-o-the-envelope estimate, what i’m hearing is that apollo, rif, sync, etc would each be charged about $20M, so a total of $60M - $70M they’d make if the 3rd party apps all decided to run with the new API pricing. I don’t know what the AI guys would be charged, but lets say an order of magnitude more - $600M - $700M. All told, these API changes - if everyone paid in, would result in ~$1B in extra revenue.
if 85% of people who use reddit continue to do so, and they convert many of these people into their paid app…maybe they get half of that?
so Spez et al get to add $500M to annual revenues, make the potential investors happy, and all it costs is quality?
they’re 40 years old now instead of 23 or whatever…they want money.
if we assume that Musk made some of his moves to really sell his data / meta-data in ways users might not love, I would assume reddit and spez have been doing the same thing and are getting ready to step that up.
reddit is twitter is facebook is cnn is fox is msnbc. engage as you feel comfortable.