Prior to the protest reddit was in full support of the protest. Most polls on subs supported a shutdown. Now, seemingly every community cant understand why the protest was needed and they’re calling it a mod power trip. There is a 3rd possibility. This is an unfounded conspiracy but reddit themselves could be manipulating scores.

See the NFL thread if you don’t mind sending traffic

https://reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/14b11kh/were_just_here_so_we_dont_get_fined/

  • stopthatgirl7
    4•1 year ago

    but the way Huffman tells it, Apollo has less than 5% of the install base of the official app on iOS. If that’s the case I don’t really understand his argument that they’re bleeding Reddit dry.

    I saw this as an explanation, and it’s so stupid it makes perfect sense

    • parrot-party
      1•1 year ago

      Reddit doesn’t have to guess though. API usage has clientID information. They could easily keep a tally of requests per client and get exact numbers.