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Relay for Reddit now charges based on how much you use it (www.theverge.com)
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Relay was (yup) one of the third party apps that survived the API-calypse. But this sort of model is unsustainable in the long run, given that the competitor (the broken native app) is free and unlimited.

The obvious future monopoly of the broken native app is bad for the platform in the long run, given that Reddit always sucked off ideas from third party apps; and now there's no incentive whatsoever to make it better, after Reddit Inc. killed the better competitors.

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[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

How addicted does someone have to be to pay to use reddit. Average reddit users is probably fine fine with the official app or moved to browser so would also see this type of reddit user as bizzare. Would like to know how much they rack up in fees using reddit.

[-] MedicareForSome@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's just crazy because if you're into reddit enough to pay for it you're probably producing value for them in the form of quality posts.

[-] toastdb@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I mostly lurk but according to the relay app 35%+ of my API calls were voting. So reddit is basically charging people to vote.

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