Reddit at the moment is trying everything to inflate metrics before their IPO.<p>Dislike an advertisement of a brand and it will ask you do you want to subscribe to that brand’s subreddit.<p>“r/Place works by letting users drop a pixel of one of eight colors wherever they want on the canvas, but they have to wait a few minutes to be able to drop another.“ - the functionality users have been demanding…<p>I was getting spammed on LinkedIn by the CEO of an infra platform company. I looked on Reddit to see what the company was about. Glowing reviews from numerous accounts that all mysteriously stopped posting shortly after leaving those reviews.
Good. I have little sympathy for mods who shut down subreddits built on the contribution of users over a decade over something as trivial as app choice. If there was something absolutely vital provided by a 3rd party app, there were more productive ways of engaging with management.<p>Downvote away.