I’m not sure if this is new, but when I clicked on the /r/pics protest post link from the frontpage here, I was redirected to this: https://old.reddit.com/premium

I’m not sure if this is well-known or not that they’re pushing it now, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it, especially on old.reddit.

  • Art35ian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    2 years ago

    I would have happily paid $50 p/year for Apollo. I won’t pay $0.05c for Reddit.

    • badtooth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      100% agree. It’s so fucked that they are stomping out 3P apps. Even with greed and profit as the only motivation, financially it would have made more sense to charge reasonable API fees than die on this hill. I would happily pay for Apollo if it was necessary to keep it running.

    • cjsolx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      Before finding Lemmy and kbin, if 3P App devs had announced that they were gonna make a Reddit competitor I would have been the first to jump