RIP my primary reddit account (dragon and fiction ones are still there). I'd like to claim it was because of the latest round of admin fuckery but honestly it was about two years overdue for the decennial deletion and I really need to break some old habits.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Nice! I rotated through reddit accounts about every 6-12 months just to split the data up. I haven't deleted my old ones but am considering it.
I haven't deleted any of mine but I haven't logged in either. I'm curious to see what happens when Apollo et al shut down over the weekend.
Haha yeah, me too. I should really check in to the subreddit of my app and see if there were any updates. I used Relay for Reddit, and initially the dev said they were going to try doing it as a subscription, then the more maths they did the more they realised it would never work.
Basically if you remove the free version and only have a monthly subscription, then you lose your low end users and retain your higher end ones. This means more requests on average, so the price needs to be higher, but the higher price means you lose some of the mid-tier users because they were willing to pay but not that much, then you only end up with the super high tier users, which cost too much for a subscription to support.
So a couple of weeks ago there was hope that some apps could continue as a subscription, but that hope seems to have died now.
Relay was my drug of choice too, it was a fantastic app. I'm hoping that Brady decides to port it or adapt it for Lemmy, although the app I'm trying now seems promising.
There doesn't seem to be any news about Relay after he commented about how it may be unfeasible over a week ago.
I think the user base of Lemmy isn't big enough to financially support lots of different apps in the same way reddit did, but it would be nice to see at least one or two of the popular ones ported over.
Hey Dave, have you seen this? Relay is moving to a subscription model after all - but now I've kinda gone off the idea of reddit altogether.
I hadn't, thanks for pointing it out! It sounds like a few apps have struck a deal with reddit to give them a few more months to work things out.
But yeah, I definitely won't be using reddit like I used to, and it wouldn't be worth me paying a subscription (especially knowing it almost all goes straight to reddit)
I thought about just kind of archiving it but nah it was time to move on
@Dave does lemmy.nz federation with mastodon work? Morning team.
Yes it does! Sick. Morning me.
I wonder if one day you'll be able to "follow" people on Lemmy, so you can have Mastodon posts appear in your Lemmy feed.
Actually, there is a feature request for it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/752
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