I'm done with that place.

I can honestly say that I don't give a fuck about anything Reddit related. I'm very happy with my Lemmy experience thus far. This place seems fresh.

Imagine paying for reposts every month. Lol!

I used to spend a lot of time on reddit. Now since middle of june i have spent like 10 minutes total their and came streight back here. Lemmy has totally replaced my reddit usage slot and i am really happy about that. Also, shout out to the fantastic Thunder devs as i really love this app.

Relay is an amazing app. Very smooth. And this is a good solution for his app to survive.

But besides the fact that almost all of the money will be going to Reddit. Everything you do on the app makes calls to the API, including voting. And each vote is equal to one call, just as much getting a batch of comments for a post, or getting a batch of posts.

So the best way to keep your API calls low is to not vote on any post or comment.

Maybe the dev will optimize this somehow by maybe batching votes and sending them at a later date, but you can see how the current situation, made possible by reddit, will decrease engagement.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The costs of a subscription will go up based on a user’s daily average number of API calls, essentially meaning that the more things a person does in the app, the more they might have to pay.

Here is the full list, from developer DBrady’s post, which appears to include Google’s take of the subscription and Relay’s expected revenues:

In the newest release of Relay, DBrady says they also added the ability for users to see their average daily API calls.

The plan is for a subscription to roll out in two or three weeks from the time of their post and they expect to charge a monthly cost of $3 or $4.

“This won’t cover the cost of ‘super users’ who use the app all day, but, on average, it should allow me to pay the Reddit API bill,” the developer said.

Many subreddits and users protested against the switch to the paid API in-party because of its effect on the third-party app ecosystem.

I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Honestly, I was getting a good ad-free experience with RIF for many years and I enjoyed it. I don't see how anyone could have made money off of me for that. If 3rd party app/API access were only available with Reddit Gold, it wouldn't have been the most unreasonable idea in the world. This kinda sorta works like that. I'd almost consider it, but between the shit moves (read: outright lies) Spez was making, recent coin fuckery, and Lemmy content only getting better with time... Nah.

The way things are going, I'm pretty sure NSFW content on Reddit will be nixed within the next year. Hopefully that drives another influx this way.

Fuck that little alien and his cold dead eyes.

Apps that make fewer than 100 queries per minute using OAuth authentication

This is what Reddit allows for free, why is Relay asking for 1$ when using 50 queries a day?

Edit: Nevermind, reddit apparently counts access against the app-id and not the logged in user. So this would only work if you could use your own app-id within Relay which isn’t possible.

I used Relay back when I was a redditor.

Ship sailed. I get the dev trying to recoup costs and keep the thing running. But ultimately reddit made their call and that market isn't really there anymore.

OT but related to the discussion: is there a way to track if and how the fediverse is increasing?

I looked on Wikipedia and it said it's just about ~67000 users on Lemmy VS ~52 million users on Reddit.

I'm spending most of my time on my phone on Lemmy (and about 5 mins on Reddit) every day now, but it would be awesome to be slowly attracting more users from Reddit over time.

Sure, it's better to be fewer users if it does lead to more quality conversations (which is what I find so far), but the fediverse still needs to grow!

Edit: fixed grammar and clarity in the last sentence.

Right now I am still using Infinity for reddit. Will keep using it till it stops working. The app can also be built with your own key and the limit will not be hit for most users of reddit. For lemmy I like infinity for lemmy best. Its just like infinity for reddit but lemmy.

Screw Reddit. Since my migration over here a couple months ago I’ve spent less than 1 hour over there.

If anyone is a College Basketball or College Football here on Lemmy come join. CFB and collegebasketball on LemmyWorld.