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I'm seeing a lot of similarities between Reddit benefiting greatly from their unpaid moderators and Apollo benefiting from them the same. As well as not even h
by VWWHFSfQ 3y ago
I'm seeing a lot of similarities between Reddit benefiting greatly from their unpaid moderators and Apollo benefiting from them the same. As well as not even having to pay Reddit at all. Did Apollo ever even have to pay for anything whatsoever? Not really that surprising that business went away when the free lunch was over
- joshstrange 3y agoReddit encouraged building on their API for over a decade. Reddit told Christian in January that there would be no big changes to the API this year if not for multiple years. Reddit told developers it had no plans to charge for it's API. To call it a "free lunch" is pretty disrespectful IMHO, Christian worked hard on Apollo and it blows away the official app. Reddit benefits from 3rd party apps. Period. They don't want to admit that and they might not benefit as much as from 1st party but those users interact, create content, moderate subs, and more. Reddit went from "no charge, use the API" to "pay us a LOT of money and you have <30 days" with zero wiggle room.
- Atheros 3y agoI don't think that Apollo's lunch was free. Apollo gave Reddit free content, free content reviews (voting) that can be used for sorting, and free moderation, and all Reddit had to do was handle anti-bot mechanisms and host a centralized database. Maybe Reddit should have been paying Apollo. If the roles were reversed and there were multiple database backends that people could choose from and Apollo was the only available front-end, it would be Apollo that could demand money from Reddit.