I don’t necessarily think it’s misguided, simply misdirected. Mods are, I think, people who want to build a community. They landed on Reddit because well that’s where the people were. Devs have their own reasons, but I think the best are members of the community who simply wanted to introduce a new way to interact with it.
More cynical devs may view it in a strictly monetary way where they just wanna fill a niche. I think if there are going to be 3rd party devs who come back to Reddit it’s going to be those, and the service is going to be all the worse for it. But even for them, Reddit has proven itself to be an unreliable business partner at best. Why bother building anything for it at all if Reddit has shown itself willing shut you out of it’s ecosystem pretty much on a whim?
I don’t necessarily think it’s misguided, simply misdirected. Mods are, I think, people who want to build a community. They landed on Reddit because well that’s where the people were. Devs have their own reasons, but I think the best are members of the community who simply wanted to introduce a new way to interact with it.
More cynical devs may view it in a strictly monetary way where they just wanna fill a niche. I think if there are going to be 3rd party devs who come back to Reddit it’s going to be those, and the service is going to be all the worse for it. But even for them, Reddit has proven itself to be an unreliable business partner at best. Why bother building anything for it at all if Reddit has shown itself willing shut you out of it’s ecosystem pretty much on a whim?