To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.

It’s her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.

In my view, the cross section of “IfR” users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).

And if Apollo’s dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn’t worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don’t see how a small app like IfR can survive.

That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake…

  • gfrewqpoiu@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    44
    ·
    1 year ago

    And even with that subscription, you still get locked out of any post or subreddit that is marked NSFW, which will now be even more since subreddits are still protesting the changes.

    • 7heo@lemmy.mlOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      25
      ·
      1 year ago

      Wait, did I miss that? Are reddit going to make NSFW API calls available only to their app!?

      • SSTF@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Ever since the first pricing announcement, they said they’d lock out NSFW. Originally they said it would just be porn, but when asked how the API would differentiate different types of NSFW Reddit never replied.

        When mods using 3PA asked how they were supposed to remove NSFW posts on non-NSFW subreddits, the Reddit reply was the posters shouldn’t be doing that. Yeah.

        • ira@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          Right now nobody even knows which ones will be blocked or not because it’s hardly visible at the moment. It’s going to be an absolute clusterfuck once people start realizing their subreddits are improperly categorized as NSFW and are completely blocked from the API.

          If it’s the same as the mobile website, then new/small subreddits are blocked too for being “unreviewed”.

      • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yes and they’re already blocking mobile web access to most porn subreddit. Only from their app, for “safety” 😉

        • 7heo@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          The funny thing is, there is barely any porn on reddit. It’s mostly on redgifs. Reddit is just an aggregator with categories and tags support…

        • 7heo@lemmy.mlOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Figuratively only, unfortunately… Not gonna touch that absolute turd of an app reddit is pushing on users, even for sex. 😬