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Infinity for Reddit plans to go subscription-only July 1st in hopes of sustainability, price undecided for now (old.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by grizz@lemmy.world to c/technology

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Infinity, a lesser known open-source third-party Reddit app for Android, has announced that it will be switching to a subscription-only model. This would mean that the F-Droid version of the app will be delisted and the API key currently in the source code of the app will be removed. As of this post, the developer is currently not interested in converting Infinity into a Lemmy client, but encourages others to look into doing it themselves because of the app's open source nature.

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[–] BlackCoffee@fedia.io 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just give in to Reddit's ridiculous demands indeed.

This is just a start for them to charge even more down the line "cuz profits".

It will not be sustainable as an 3rd party app one way or the other.
They can also just revoke the access without blinking just because they would feel like it.

[–] Sarke@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

They're not doing this to make money on their API, they're just trying to make 3rd party apps unfeasible so users have to use their app. More control basically, more ad power.