Jesus Christ, I could barely use Reddit when it was free. Can’t imagine being such a tool I’d pay for the privilege of browsing that fucking ridiculous echo chamber. Moving to lemmy was the best thing I could’ve done. Wish I’d known about this place sooner. So much less ridiculous nonsense infighting and parroting basic ass taking points.
If Reddits pricing was reasonable I would not find this objectionable but the way the Apollo developer spoke about this, the API pricing was meant to kill third party developers.
It’s like a 90s phone bill all over again.
“You were shit posting? Before 9pm? In a long distance subreddit!!! Our reddit bill is ludicrous!!!”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The costs of a subscription will go up based on a user’s daily average number of API calls, essentially meaning that the more things a person does in the app, the more they might have to pay.
Here is the full list, from developer DBrady’s post, which appears to include Google’s take of the subscription and Relay’s expected revenues:
In the newest release of Relay, DBrady says they also added the ability for users to see their average daily API calls.
The plan is for a subscription to roll out in two or three weeks from the time of their post and they expect to charge a monthly cost of $3 or $4.
“This won’t cover the cost of ‘super users’ who use the app all day, but, on average, it should allow me to pay the Reddit API bill,” the developer said.
Many subreddits and users protested against the switch to the paid API in-party because of its effect on the third-party app ecosystem.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Good bot
This is like they tied the uncle (the cool one, not the drunk thanksgiving gop candidate) to a stripper post and are making him dance for dollars now.
After they dug the poor bastard up after he’d just been unceremoniously raped to death by Spez. You loved your uncle, now pay to see whats left dance around.
Pay to use. Then they sell your data. Double dipping.