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  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
    05·
    1 year ago

    3rd party apps are not compatible with making $$$. Anyone in the business or shareholders who want to make profit will be behind killing 3rd party apps.

    • jarfil@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Reddit sells NFTs (avatars) that could easily make them more (from a percentage of each transaction) than what they’re asking for API access, if they just required 3rd party apps to include them, which wouldn’t have generated barely any backlash. But it’s their loss, and if we get a federated alternative in the process… then so be it.

    • bric@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sure they are, if they charged a similar amount for api access as they’re currently making from an average user all of the apps would gladly pay it, and reddit wouldn’t be losing any money from 3rd party apps. They could even charge 2-3x that amount and make a nice profit off of it, and all of the apps would probably be fine. It’s only because they set the bar at an absurd 20x that the apps can’t come up with enough money to pay