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(Discussion) Would you pay for Reddit Premium IF it allowed you to continue using your favorite app? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn't want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.

Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The intentionally part is my only difficulty. I’d not realized until last week just how many search results were Reddit threads. I need to start excluding Reddit from my search results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, google search is a pain without reddit, I setup a WIndows VM to try Bing Chat, I'll see how it goes.

I don't use ChatGPT because I don't want to give them my phone number, Bing Chat only requires an email and that's fine for me (got a throwaway one just for that).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve clicked a few links on here, not realizing they would go to Reddit. Only to immediately close the screen, when I realized.

And on the 12th, until I moved Apollo off my homescreen, I opened, and then immediately closed the app.

I’ve been a lot more careful now. I also agree that google is more shit without Reddit. Google had already become pretty useless, imo, anyhow. With all the sponsored shit. I also think there was at least a period of time on the 14tb that google excluded all Reddit responses. I searched for something, fully expecting Reddit to be at the top. I scrolled for a while, and there was no Reddit results. It was weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The fiasco has broke google results since the protest...I am not sure Google is going to keep prioritizing those results of it ends in a poor user experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same, Google searching for anything has been a massive pain in the ass ever since the 11th. I should find a plugin to auto redirect from Reddit to the latest wayback machine snapshot of that post.