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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.
Seriously, the handful of times I’ve checked back in on Reddit recently just made me think, “Wow I hate it here.”
I’m so much happier on the Fediverse.
Right? Scrolling through /r/all is just a combination of ragebait, low quality trash and circlejerking. I’ve been increasingly unhappy with the platform over the past years and the great time I’ve had on Lemmy has really driven the point home how bad of a site reddit has become.
Literally the only reason I occasionally go back every 3 or 4 weeks is to check if my old app moved to the subscription service yet, and so far it hasn’t
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.
i love the app, and u/DBrady has made a great thing. but i can’t support that place any longer. this doesn’t have the active communities i desire, and that place fucking sucks my heart out of my chest. I’m pretty jaded right now…
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.
Same for me, and I was using SyncPro for 10 years on Reddit, switching to Sync for Lemmy is completely transparent
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!
This feels a lot like when Duff tried to sell non-alcoholic beer.
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.
Fuck that little alien and his cold dead eyes.
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.
How come it didn’t stop working yet?
I think the owner is not done with making the paid subscription version of the app so till then it will keep working.
