Well everyone wants to use apps like Twitter and Reddit but nobody wants to pay? There has to be a compromise, you can’t have it all. I don’t particularly think it’s fair that other businesses piggyback onto the popularity of these platforms without renumeration in some way. Granted fees are a little exorbitant but they’ve been getting away with it for so long.
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OR we can sit back and let the free market work its magic and watch the dustification of Reddit. Kind of like what Anheuser-Busch and Target are going through.
I’m fully aware of that. It was exactly the point I was making.
I've barely touched Twitter since they canned the API access and Tweetbot died. I subscribe to just a couple of subs on reddit and use Apollo. If Apollo goes the same way as the Twitter third party apps then I'll be deleting my reddit accounts.
Just like how you access Facebook for “free”? You pay Facebook and Reddit the same price, your data.
if Apollo goes, my reddit consumption will drop significantly.
I'd have paid a few quid a month to carry on using Tweetbot and I'd do the same with Apollo. It's not that people wouldn't pay for third party Twitter app access, it's that we weren't given the opportunity.
I looked into getting the App (Reddit app, but would upgrade to a better app), but was never sold on the product, just because of the hurdle of getting into the product initially.
That's a great idea, actually. Let me go do that right now.
I don't think anyone would be opposed if they were even planning to charge, say, double what Imgur charges for example. The big issue here is their number is not based in any sort of reality, and is being chosen on purpose to kill all 3rd party clients. Middle ground could exist.
I do read and write on reddit thought only certain mods get paid. Reddit itself isn't a content creator, it provides hosting and get paid in ads and promoted stuff just like Twitter.
This will definately free me up from using that website. More time for sleep!
I got permanently banned on a news thread for politely offering what amounts to the default opinion for about 1/3-2/3 of citizens in the US. I was quite surprised, but now I know better.Reddit is a cesspool echo chamber. Hopefully it goes the way of the dodo (Twitter) very soon.
Neither will go away, but this pricing is bonkers.
Neither will go away, sure, at least not for the foreseeable future. But hanging on a thread as pitiful skeletons of their once-revered selves shall prove to be a slower and far more humiliating fate. 🙏
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Twitter is more free now...not sure what you mean or what definition of free here is.
Profits pay for servers. This website is for profit. There is nothing that is free just some things that are free to some people.
Time for another iPhone heist. Hold my beer.
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Thanks but no thanks. I need to purchase Apple AR/VR headset first before anything. It's literally days away to be unveiled.
How about a killer .webm-compatible 4Chan client/browser for our beloved rectangular Apples @ChristianSelig ? 🤪
Most of Reddit is either benign, neutral, recreational, or utilitarian. It's possible to never see or touch politics on Reddit based on your subreddit choices.
The problem with politics in general, regardless of which side of the aisle you prefer, is that it both self-amplifies and vastly over-estimates its importance. Each side professes to want to just let everyone live their own lives, but each is so invested in its own narcissism and cults of personality that they don't ever actually bring themselves to the point of leaving the rest of us alone. Hence the unsustainable cesspools that most generalist online communities are, and certainly all social media.
But again: Reddit's charm is that it's not one common public square, it's thousands of them. Choose carefully and you need never run into a single foaming conservative or shrieking liberal.
MAN, this blows. I really don't want social medias to be barren of any third party apps, especially since their official apps usually suck to use or shove soooooo many ads down your throat.
Nothing is being dragged down for you if you don’t follow those subreddits.
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I know the official Reddit app isn’t great but I have never got the hype for Apollo
This sucks, especially for the millionaire dev