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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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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Why would anyone use Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the paid API wasn't rolled out as a complete trainwreck I'd probably be paying. And probably wouldn't be here, too.

Relay was my app for 12 years so I wish him well with this but I'm not planning on going back to using it or reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry that was a rhetorical question.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Momentum/inertia

If the changes don't directly affect people most of them won't change their ways. That's just how it is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To get answers to specific questions, written by a actual human. That's the only thing I still use it for. Why deal with pages upon pages blogspam written by bots, when you can simply add site:reddit.com to your searches and get an answer immediately? I can't wait for the day when Lemmy grows enough that I no longer have to do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Or a version of Gigabrain that works with Lemmy. Otherwise too many domains

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A lot of people are "stuck" because of the content still there, like Psythik said; you either look for info in Reddit or you get to navigate through blogspam. (I do the later because I'd rather not give Reddit more traffic. Screw it. Complex websearching techniques alleviate the issue.)

Others are like this:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use it because of specific support communities where there isn’t a good alternative or where I’ve built connections.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Lemmy is very small compared to Reddit.