Reddit REALLY wants you to use its app.

The company confirmed to me that it is moving in a direction that other platforms have taken: converting users to the app. Reddit says that the test aims to find out if people like me—those who use the service but aren’t generally logged in—get a better experience with the app.

  • noodles@slrpnk.net
    24·
    3 days ago

    In fairness to the writer the next paragraph follows up with “perhaps, or perhaps the better option is to just walk away and do something more productive with my time.” Basically your sentiment.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 days ago

      Bait and switch is wrong no matter who does it, even if the service was free to begin with.

      "…perhaps the better option is to just walk away and do something more productive with my time.” Basically your sentiment.

      I don’t mean to speak for @teft@piefed.social , but I don’t think that was necessarily his sentiment at all. The correct solution to corporations engaging in bait-and-switch or other morally-incorrect behavior is for government regulators to force the behavior to stop and punish the corporations, not just for customers to walk away.

      Corporations are not “people” and do not have any inherent right to exist. They were created as a concept in order to benefit society as a whole – not just shareholders! – and should be made to do so again.