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I don't understand how having third party apps prevents reddit form lying about their user stats.
Do you mean paywalling API access makes it more difficult for third party analysis tools to detect bots vs real users, or something like that?
It's much harder to fake volume when a portion of it can be counted very accurately using play store/ Apple store statistics. Kill those apps off and you kill activity verification.