To me, Reddit's policy seems to be driven as much by spite as anything else.
Yep I agree. No reason to force them to remove their own advertising.
deluxeparrot
joined 1 year ago
My guess since both apps doing this model have immediately removed their own advertising is that they are exempt from the api pricing for a few months.
I can't see either dev cutting off their revenue stream (app ads) and then eating the api cost on the same day. Especially if users swarm to them as they are the last standing 3rd party app on their platform. Individuals wouldn't take on that kind of liability.
This seems quite clever by Reddit. It looks like there's some deal that if they remove ads from their apps they get free api usage for a few months. Seems suspicous that both apps doing this have removed ads.
This will soften the blow a little for Reddit as now at least 1 decent sized 3rd party app on each platform (Android/IOS) will continue to work for a while.
A clever PR move that changes nothing.
Please don’t feed them data about fediverse instances by querying new domain names.
I don't believe searching for domains will feed them data as such. You can crawl the lemmyverse starting from a few known servers. It's how awesome-lemmy-instances works.
what is exactly the purpose of knowing who is blocked by whom?
Before joining an instance it seemed useful to get an idea of their moderation policy. It just gives transparency as to that instance's policies, as well insight into how the rest of the fediverse views that instance.
I wasn't aware it was created by known bad actors and it wasn't my intention to promote them. It was just a useful tool.
Ahh I see. That site does list both blocked by and blocked, but not simultaneously.
Thanks, I'm pretty sure my instance has NSFW disabled at the server level so I don't see that at all.
Does anyone know how to mark a post as NSFW? I don't think this post requires it but I can't find an option set it anywhere.
I'm still learning but share your concern.
I also think there's different dimensions to the growth too. A lemmy server such as programming.dev may have many communities which become popular and it's primary task is to be the home to those communities and federate that out to the wider community.
At the same time it has to pull in any random community that even a single user on that server wants to look at and store it.
The server that is home to programming discussion could buckle under the load of too many posts to /c/funny. It doesn't seem right. They are different responsiblities.
I don't think they will be paying anything until they implement subscriptions. They are exempt for now in exchange for removing advertising from their apps.
Once they implement subscriptions then they get income to cover the cost of the api.