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I stand that they could have solved this 3rd-party apps and profitability controversy by requiring a Reddit Gold/Premium subscription. But it was just easier t

• nehal3m 2y ago
  That is the month I made my Lemmy account. It’s smaller and quiet, not as many niche communities, but I’ll take that over rot economy platforms any day. I left Reddit after 10 years specifically because of the API debacle and how it affected Apollo.
  • entropicdrifter 2y ago
    Same. Lemmy is smaller and quieter, as you said, but the conversations are generally less toxic (unless you seek out the corners of the fediverse where people like to argue) and there's certainly more of a sense of community there
• dangus 2y ago
  I agree. But to be clear they didn’t kill them altogether. There are still their party apps that use a subscription to pay for the API. The problem is that the best app on iOS, Apollo, had its developer chased away. And really it was about communication and trust rather than an unwillingness to sell a paid app. He also expressed dismay over the short timeline to adapt his business since he already sold his customers paid versions of his app, so changing everything abruptly or forking the app to being something like “Apollo 2” would be screwing his own customers over. But if Reddit had communicated the changes more clearly and had treated him better in general I think he would have kept the app. Instead Reddit basically burned the bridge and the dev didn’t need the bullshit anymore.