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One 3rd party app may survive (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ironsoap@lemmy.one to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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Verge interviewed the maker of Relay for Reddit and says he might survive on a subscription only model of $2-3 USD per month. Lots of limitations inherent in that, but maybe.

How do lemmies feel about this?

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[-] 00Lemming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Me personally? I am done. Regardless. I have seen intimately how enshitification ruins so many good pieces of software, I am just done. This was the last straw for me. They could revert back to free API. I will be contributing to the fediverse from here on out.

I just hope others without a tech background can understand how important this movement is to the future of a free internet.

[-] Teotwawki@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Relay is the app I've been using for the past decade. It's great, and I would pay a subscription fee even though I paid for the app, but it wouldn't solve the other issues with the site. Mods still wouldn't have the tools they need to be effective and NSFW posts wouldn't be accessible, for example. Plus I don't like the idea of giving money to companies run by the likes of Steve Huffman.

[-] TWeaK@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Relay was my go to app also, something about the flow of the app UI always appealed to me more than any other apps. So much so, I continued using it even after I found the paid app included trackers (these can be blocked with Warden, a rare app scanner you can find on github).

However even if I wanted to stay on reddit I don't think I'd pay a monthly subscription.

Reddit really should be paying users, not the other way around. They steal our data for free and seek to profit from it.

[-] Flukemaster@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Relay I think was the android counterpoint to Apollo in that it is always up to date with the Android design language of the time. It is by far my favourite Reddit app and DBrady is a champ. I don't know if it's worth 3USD a month though. Especially when a large chunk of that goes to Reddit. I would definitely be down for a Relay for Lemmy though.

[-] bhj@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

$3/month is a lot just to be able to use a 3rd party app. I don't think many users are going to go for it. And it's not like the developer is making much money off of it, it is all just to pay the new API costs.

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

RedReader (a realy, really good minimalist FLOSS reddit client) has been granted an exemption due to its strong focus on accessibility. however the project dev has stated that reddit is no longer to be trusted and RedReader will be integrating Lemmy and a few other networks ASAP.

[-] dnzm@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Do you have a link for that somewhere? I'm wondering if there's nore cases of this kind of backpedaling.

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