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Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by galangalalgol »

BlackjackCF wrote: post #178
Banbeck wrote: post #171

Well, looks like this is the end of any social media use for me. Reddit was already hanging by a thread for me. Not being able to use Apollo for this will be the last nail in the coffin.

Same. I only find Reddit tolerable because of Apollo. The official Reddit app pales in comparison. I hope they can come to some sort of agreement or find a way to acquihire the Apollo developer (though that might kill the app with crappy features as well).

I've always just used the web, is there some reason to use an app for it? I liked it as a place to look for people talking about things I might want to buy. I'm sure it is full of fake comments, but the ones that make verifiable claims for or against are useful.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by idiotsecant »

Zetice wrote: post #162

I 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 do you do isntead of appending 'reddit' to google search? I could imagine dropping everything else but search is terrible for a lot of things without it.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by bink »

robbiet480 wrote: post #17

Reddit has posted their own announcements now https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda... and https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...

Did they really remove their own post describing the changes? I haven't seen that before.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by robotburrito »

Sites like reddit and discord will have trouble surviving eventually I think. The communities that rely on it may as well just host their own alternative at this point. It will allow them to have more control. However, I do admit that maybe doing such a thing is a bit much for many non technical communities.

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Post by arbitrage »

alfalfasprout wrote: post #169
eatsyourtacos wrote: post #142

Reddit is getting destroyed by tiktok for casual news/random videos etc. I was a huge reddit user over the years, but now I only go there for a handful of very specific subreddits. That's really it's only use anymore. It's great for that, but they are probably seeing massive decline in usage. And the moment they basically kill 3rd party reddit apps is the day I barely touch it again.

I can't really agree. The curation on reddit just far, far better outside of the super generic frontpage subreddits. Tik tok is 99% garbage content.

> Tik tok is 99% garbage content.

You're likely not using TikTok effectively. I personally use it, and all my engagements with it are 100% relevant to my interests.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by idiotsecant »

doix wrote: post #175
Zetice wrote: post #162

I 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…

> but what they've left Reddit with as a differentiator are the communities. Yeah, I pretty much only use reddit for a few game communities, unfortunately with this change I suspect more and more people will move to discord. It's pretty annoying, but I suspect I'll have to eventually cave and join them when they finally kill old.reddit.com.

ugh, discord is basically IRC. There's a reason we don't use IRC for everything. I hate that it's replacing everything.

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Post by bmarquez »

pkulak wrote: post #181

I've been very happy with Ivory: https://tapbots.com/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.

Ivory is for Mastodon. Lemmy is the Fediverse replacement for Reddit.

The only iOS app for Lemmy is Remmel which is dead and no longer available on the App Store.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by ohgodplsno »

abletonlive wrote: post #179
willio58 wrote: post #7

Wow, that price is insane. To me, that's pretty clearly a shot at any competitor apps for Reddit. Purely anti-competitive behavior here, which to me is silly. Let other apps pop up to better serve your users. At the end of the day, they are still your users and you might learn things from the other apps. Who ever came up with that price is looking for short-term profits over user happiness and long-term growth.

The idea that it's anti-competitive to do with your platform what you want is in my mind silly. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from building a reddit clone to compete against reddit besides your ability to attract their users. It comes off as extremely entitled to think that reddit should supply you with the data created by their platform to do what you want with it.

Reddit didn't create data. I did, you did, random users did. Why did it happen on Reddit? Because Reddit, at least for a while, seemed like it was a relatively open place where data wouldn't be stuck and made inaccessible without an account.

Reddit exists _despite_ Reddit's incompetent management and tech teams, not thanks to them.

Re: Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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Post by leovander »

mvdtnz wrote: post #206

An average Apollo user is causing 344 API requests per day? That's a lot! I wonder if Apollo should prioritise reducing that number. I'd bet anything there is a lot of low hanging fruit to be had with aggressive caching and general tidying up.

Infinite doom scrolling, clicking into threads, load more comments, replying/making comments, etc. It adds up.
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