That’s fair. With the reddit example, the data reddit collects is used for advertising. Because reddit accounts are anonymous, there’s not much to sell to third parties.
But with a third party reddit app, reddit can’t show ads. The data is pretty useless. I’m not convinced third party apps can be a meaningful part of the revenue stream.
No free tier, but some third party apps with a serious effort at going subscription based have been granted more time by reddit (but were required to remove their ads, and more stuff I can’t remember (maybe no NSFW?).
I haven’t paid anything since my original Relay Pro fee several years ago and I can still browse porn on Reddit. I dunno what’s happening. I did see a pop-up screen a couple of days ago saying it would be changing to a subscription model, but so far it’s still working fine. I don’t think I’ll keep using it when it changes to subscription.
And for a reasonable subscription price! It’s just a shame that we know it goes straight to reddit, so I’m not gonna do that.
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Who pays for the servers?
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I don’t mean reddit. You made a general statemet that you shouldn’t pay to access user generated content.
Even Lemmy has users contributing tens of thousands of dollars to pay for servers. Someone has to pay.
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That’s fair. With the reddit example, the data reddit collects is used for advertising. Because reddit accounts are anonymous, there’s not much to sell to third parties.
But with a third party reddit app, reddit can’t show ads. The data is pretty useless. I’m not convinced third party apps can be a meaningful part of the revenue stream.
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Is there a free tier? I just check in every other week, and I’m surprised I can still use Relay without a subscription.
No free tier, but some third party apps with a serious effort at going subscription based have been granted more time by reddit (but were required to remove their ads, and more stuff I can’t remember (maybe no NSFW?).
I haven’t paid anything since my original Relay Pro fee several years ago and I can still browse porn on Reddit. I dunno what’s happening. I did see a pop-up screen a couple of days ago saying it would be changing to a subscription model, but so far it’s still working fine. I don’t think I’ll keep using it when it changes to subscription.