I've been very happy with Ivory:
Every few months I kick a couple bucks to my homeserver (which is currently running a pretty large surplus or I'd do more) and that's the end of it.
Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
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Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#182I blocked the reddit.com domain from all of my devices a few weeks ago, because until recently I didn't feel like I could keep my finger on the pulse of "The Internet" without Reddit. That's no longer the case. Google's "For You" gets me my niche subject-specific content, Google News/Memeorandum (and its sibling sites)/Apple News gives me the mainstream media perspectives, HN (and maybe Bluesky occasionally) my urge…
What is Google's "For You" ?
Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Finally, to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met in the handling of mature content, we will be limiting access to sexually explicit content for third-party apps starting on July 5, 2023, except for moderation needs. Reddit really buried "no nsfw outside official reddit apps" (from the end of your first link). Didn't Tumblr do something similar and lose a significant fraction of its userbase and revenues?
I can only assume Reddit wants to kill NSFW altogether. They require you to authenticate now if you want to see any of it (though of course they promise that somehow this will still be "anonymous"). Once they turn off old.reddit.com, I think that'll be the end of NSFW content on Reddit altogether. I assume they hope to attract more advertising money this way.
Once they get rid of old.reddit.com I'm off for good, their new UI is just so frustrating to use it's not worth it.
Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#184> Even if I only kept subscription users, the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month, which is over double what the subscription currently costs, so I'd be in the red every month. I just don't understand why developers underprice their apps so much. You're talking about an app that people are constantly raving about, and that people use for multiple hours per day. Charge $5/mo…
I spend 5€/month for my mobile phone plan, 40GB data cap.
5€/month for a service extending reddit is quite a lot
Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#185I have no idea what the actual cost incurred by Reddit is, but they're asking for $0.24 for 1,000 API calls. (basically fetching content)
Does anyone have a ballpark?
Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#186For individual users (not voracious LLM and data mining and surveillance), is there any reason an app can't just be a "specialized Web browser", scraping subreddit memberships/posts/comments just-in-time, as a user browses interactively, with that access pattern and pacing?
Or a plugin of improvements for a general-purpose Web browser?
(It could even preserve ads.)
The reason for such an app would be that a lot of people like parts of Reddit community content, but much fewer people like many of the UI attempts that Reddit has made of the years (for desktop, mobile Web, and apps).
Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
You also don't understand how 95% of the world or 80% of HN lives. $5/month is a very significant expense.
For the world? Yes it is. For the average HN user? Lol, no it’s not. I would wager the majority of HN users can point to several dumb >=$5 expenses in any given month. If you don’t value Apollo enough to pay for it, fine. Just don’t pretend that $60 a year is a morally outrageous amount for software.
> For the average HN user? Lol, no it’s not.
Depends on who you think an average HN user is.
Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#188I blocked the reddit.com domain from all of my devices a few weeks ago, because until recently I didn't feel like I could keep my finger on the pulse of "The Internet" without Reddit. That's no longer the case. Google's "For You" gets me my niche subject-specific content, Google News/Memeorandum (and its sibling sites)/Apple News gives me the mainstream media perspectives, HN (and maybe Bluesky occasionally) my urge…
What is Google's "For You" ?
Could be referring to the suggested news on the mobile home page and also in Google News
Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing
#189Another day, another service driven to madness by the poison of advertising
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#190No Apollo, no reddit.
The entertainment isn't that entertaining.