"Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year [...]"

dan80, 11 months ago

Basically they are killing third-part clients, like Twitter did.

noodlejetski, 11 months ago

but it also feels about 3.64x more scummy, given that 1. they haven't had an official client for YEARS, which allowed the third party client landscape to thrive, and then purchased one of the most successful iOS clients in order to turn it into the official one.

battleoften, 11 months ago

Oh, it’s so much worse than that. They purchased Alien Blue, built their own app that utilized some of features of Alien Blue (the reason they had to purchase the app due to IP), launched their hot pile of garage that they call an all, and then threw Alien Blue in the trash.

sexy_peach, 11 months ago

such a badly run business

sexy_peach, 11 months ago

Lmao first they offer free good services and then once enough people are there they squeeze them as good as possible. I wonder when discord will start.

Let's be real what reddit offers is only a lot of users, all the tech can easily be rebuilt.

Noonecanknowitsme, 11 months ago

Yo fr I was thinking about discord too when this news broke. There aren’t that many spaces for online communities left.

mitexleo, 11 months ago

There are lots of spaces for online communities left.

ScarletCoconut, 11 months ago

Don't worry, Matrix is developing voice rooms, has video rooms, and has a Discord-style interface for chat channels via Element.

sexy_peach, 11 months ago

There are many spaces but they don't have as many users.