https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost
The future of Apollo on Reddit isn’t clear.
It's the whole reason why I'm here today. The reddit app on android is dogshit and RIF is a much better product. I hope if they go this route then hopefully they end up like digg.
Apollo was the only reason I used Reddit. I really enjoyed Reddit via Apollo but have been around long enough to know it’s time to walk away from Reddit in any form. So here I am testing the waters of Lemmy and trying to figure out how to integrate it with my Mast client Ice Cubes app - if that’s even possible. Apollo was an awesome app with a solid UX design but it’s obvious Reddit is pulling a Twitter and there’s no way I’ll support that or their impending IPO.
I agree, I use mostly Boost on Android and used Apollo on my older iphone (and used many other like Sync, Relay, Slide, Infinity etc), the experience of these 3rd party app are so much nicer that the awful official Reddit app, honestly I just want to access the communities, and I don't care about all the thing Reddit have on their app, I want a clean, nice, fast experience. The current state of Reddit makes me sour.
I hope that there will be the same kind of apps for Lemmy and other instances, for now the Lemmy app on Android seems nice, it isn't as feature rich like the popular reddit ones but it could always be improved.
The RedReader dev is considering turning RedReader into a lemmy client which would be fantastic IMO as its super simple and very accessible to screen reader users
Surely a sustainable model. Great move reddit. /s
I never used digg.com and im a bit out of the loop, but wasn't it almost the same issue that essentially killed it?
It's a very bizzare modell to make users pay to access their own created content. I get that hosting costs money and it needs to be paid. but the amount of adds on plebbit has become unbearable / that should get them money enouth to cover hosting. Maybe I'm living under a rock...
I think your perspective and goals simply don't align with those of reddit's admins.
To be clear, I'm 100% in your boat. That said, reddit is becoming a publicly traded company. Its admins now have the goal of maximizing value for potential shareholders rather than fairness to users, community sustainability, etc.
Through that lens, I have difficulty finding flaw with any of reddit's decisions. The number of users will likely be far lower in a year. They will have a crisis in moderation growing before that. I'm sure an admin speaking candidly would agree with all this, but they're doing it anyway because driving users to the official app (and I expect removing old.reddit soon) will at least temporarily boost ad revenue.
For anyone not familiar: Among other factors, stocks price according to a ratio over their earnings (P/E) that varies by industry. Do you know what Facebook's P/E is? Last month it was 30. If that's where reddit's IPO prices out then every $1 of ad revenue they generate over the next couple of months will make them not just that $1 but another $30 at their IPO.
They don't care if it's sustainable because this isn't even about running a profitable business in the long run. This is about amplifying their IPO price to cash out.
Something tells me the apollo dev doesn't want to build an application for lemmy. They'll probably stick with reddit unfortunately.
pretty dogshit attitude from them -- easily one of the worst things about reddit is random subs being able to silence people like this. especially at a time like this, we're really bickering on about rule 8a.(b) when the app and site are facing existential threats?