This third-party Reddit app may survive — but only with a paid subscription
www.theverge.com
Relay for Reddit might continue to be available.

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?

  • bhj 🦥
    2•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
      2•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.

    • @ironsoapOP
      1•1 year ago

      I certainly wouldn’t pay for it, however I am not the target consumer. It doesn’t sound like Reddit is doing itself any favors, if the 3rd party can’t get users, they can’t pay, and if Reddit doesn’t have users, then LLM’s are not going to want their data. Especially as they want relevant quality, so it is a limited window.