@christianselig wow, the NFT’s and avatar skins must not be doing so well; who’s have thought? #Apollo is orders of magnitude better than the first-party app. Unfortunately for #Reddit, that won’t change even if they kill off Apollo.
@DJDarren I'm very much on the same boat as you... Have already started following Lemmy instances from my Mastodon, which seems like a weird UX but could end up being really cool.
Either way, it seems it's RIP #reddit.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
@christianselig this might be naive. But maybe this is an opportunity to build a federated form of #reddit ? Mastodon is great but lacks the inherent UX Reddit provides (clearly defined sub-communities, user-follows-community, posts with cleanly organized comment threads, up/downvotes, a user-tailored feed, etc)
It’s something I’ve been thinking about for awhile.
@samabuelsamid, who I generally agree with, offers some thoughts.
@mimsical, who I also generally agree with, is mentioned in passing.
And, well, I have typically agreed less with Timothy Lee's thoughts over the years (particularly on #Tesla-related topics), but this article is reasonable enough.
But let's crack it open and take a look at a few things that I think are iffy.
Kyle Vogt and Oliver Cameron (who resigned from #Cruise recently) have zero business being around or managing #SafetyCritical systems.
That is not my way of "vindicating" #Waymo, of course, but those two have issued a number of statements (mostly on the /r/SelfDrivingCars #Reddit sub) over the years that really just made me throw up my hands.
Not the first huge player clamping down on it's API killing off 3rd party apps and burning bridges. This seems to be the nature of silos (or so called walled gardens).
If only there would be a solution to this dilemma. Something interoperable. Ideally without an API at all.
Reddit's new API pricing is completely unhinged. @christianselig, maker of the popular iOS Reddit client Apollo is being asked to pony up $2 million per month to keep the lights on for his app. Even if he restricted access to just his subscribers, the API cost per average user is more than he charges. Reddit promised reasonable pricing, but now it feels like a rug pull.
Can someone convince him to adapt Apollo for @LemmyDev instead?
The pessimist in me wants to speculate that #Reddit knows that this move is bad and is doing it anyways because natural growth just ain’t cutting it anymore. When you take the VC money you have to deliver VC returns, so unless you’re the unicorn that prints money you have to find more creative ways of generating revenue.
This is the future big tech was always headed for. We have to help people get to the fediverse ASAP!
The tldr is that Reddit’s going to raise prices on their API. That’s fine. Only the price is jumping super high, and while to an extent that’s fine, it’s clearly going to price out devs. $12k a month. Shit.
The @privacyguides subreddit is dipping their toes into the fediverse now that reddit is going to shit. They are now hosting a @LemmyDev instance on https://lemmy.one/ so I decided to join it.
Lemmy is a federated alternative to reddit so it would work similarly in that you can follow other subs even on different websites. (even on mastodon maybe: @privacyguides)
You can comment on posts just using your mastodon account at the very least: https://lemmy.one/c/privacyguides
The instance has restricted creation new subs but they are open to letting other open up if you want to join: https://lemmy.one/post/41
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