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about a thousand subreddits have gone private.

That number ended up being more than 8000 and there are still more than 7000 in private or restricted mode. Although they are starting to come back online now.

He's right though - it will pass. The question is, will Reddit be the same once it does pass? Will enough moderators and contributors leave to reduce the quality of the content?

Personally, I don't really care anymore. I'm not going back if I can't use a third party app and I haven't had a problem using Lemmy for the past two days instead. I just need to find the best communities for me which will take time but I'm sure that it'll be a good replacement.

It would be some increased effort to manage users over app developers but not a significant amount in my opinion.

They already charge users for Premium so it would only be a new “plan”. Also, they don’t need to manage individual users as much as they manage app developers. If I’m an app developer and you’re expecting me to pay a few million dollars a year or more you better be sure that I’m going to contact you every time I have a slight problem!

With regards to the 10% fees, by charging the app developers those fees go up significantly due to the large fees that Apple and Google charge. So Reddit could charge the users less than the app developers ever could which would increase the chances of people paying.

I think that the argument that people won’t pay for social media isn’t really relevant. They’re forcing people to pay for it if they want to use third party apps whichever method of charging they use.

For me, the big issue (besides the cost) is that they’re charging based upon app usage instead of per active account. How is the app developer supposed to manage that? Would they charge the same amount to everyone where the people who use it less subsidise those that use it more? Would they use tiered charges that are more confusing for users?

I think that they should charge a fee per active user and allow X calls per hour or day per Reddit account per app. That way, app developers can manage their costs more effectively.

Edit: this is all assuming that they genuinely wanted to keep third party apps which I’m sure that they didn’t

Also, be very careful about who ultimately owns the domain name that you’re buying.

I know of someone who “bought” a domain for a ridiculous price and it turned out that they didn’t actually own it. The company registered it in their own name so that he wasn’t able to transfer it to another registrar and had to continue to pay the high fees if he wanted to keep the domain.

Well shady.

I’ve just finished watching The Diplomat on Netflix which was excellent.

We’re now watching Poker Face which is also good. It’s a murder of the week format too and it feels a lot like Columbo.

It’s not about wasting time and it’s not about trying to get users to come over to Lemmy today or tomorrow.

It’s about whether you contribute to the protest or not. If you log in to Reddit and start writing comments then you’ll be flagged as an active user for that day and will lessen the impact a small amount. If many did it as you’re suggesting we should then that will lessen the impact of the protest more.

Maybe he’s got confused and he’s going to delete all his posts and comments before deleting his account?

It is. We want their usage stats to show that users are objecting to their plans rather than just mods and app developers.

It needs an API key to function so they’ll disable the old key and generate a new one which they’ll keep private.

There were three ways to use it:

Free - limitations (things like a single account and can only comment, not post).

Pro - one off payment for the standard functionality.

Ultra - annual or monthly subscription for the enhanced functionally that did cost the dev money to operate.

Apparently you could pay a one off amount for a lifetime sub to the Ultra subscription but I didn’t see that option available to me (I’ma recent iPhone user)

The problem with that is that it’s not a sustainable business model for the app developers because of the way that mobile apps work.

Traditionally, consumer apps released a version that you bought and that was it. Next year there’d be a new version and you’d buy it if it offered features you wanted and not otherwise. The developer has the motivation to keep coming up with new features to get the repeat purchase.

Mobile apps don’t have the ability to do that. There’s one version which is the latest version so you buy it once and get free updates for life. The only regular income that the developer can get with this model is from new buyers. There’s only so many buyers in the market for a Reddit app (for any app really) so it’s difficult to make a pay cheque with that model.

The solution is either to provide the app for free and to show ads or move to a subscription model for extra features.

I don’t really get Twitter so I won’t but even if I did I would choose a Mastadon instance over a Meta product.

It’s mental that we need such a specialised role in journalism.