https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda... and
https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...
Like I said before in [0]
"Either the API gets blocked for third-party clients, or you purchase a high price for it."
Realistically, it was only a matter of time. Also predicted here: [0]
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/27/tech/elon-musk-twitter-si...
I wonder if there is a "fediverse" for something like forums? I can never get into mastodon because it's not like forums and conversations between people are quite hard if you don't follow them.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Users->Discovery Mechanism->Topics->Threads with all of the trimmings.
Every few months I kick a couple bucks to my homeserver (which is currently running a pretty large surplus or I'd do more) and that's the end of it.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_ca...
https://github.com/xavdid/reddit-user-to-sqlite/
It can pull your recent activity from the API, but also has support for pulling data from a GDPR archive (a feature I'm very proud of).
To put the pricing post into the same context, we're talking $7.50 per Apollo user/quarter, which is closer to what Facebook makes per user than Pinterest.
That said, presumably 3rd party client users are especially active and would skew higher ARPU than the average Redditor, and it wouldn't surprise me if they were more likely to live in developed countries.
I dunno. I started running the numbers expecting to be outraged, but the cost doesn't seem crazy far from what Reddit could conceivably hope to earn off these users. I doubt Reddit is monetizing anywhere near that well right now, but if they're pricing the API in a forward-looking way, rather than planning to ratchet it up every quarter inline with monetization efforts, it could make sense.
0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/995251/pinterest-quarter...
Example RSS feed: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/top/.rss?sort=top&t=week
https://doctorow.medium.com/twiddler-1b5c9690cce6
Oddly enough I can't find it actually on his blog.
The people making up reddit might have been replaced with completely different people - with different motivations, behaviors, and expectations.
I'm not a reddit admin. Please try to engage in good faith on this website. I'd suggest reading the "In Comments" section of the hacker news guidelines if you're unsure.
Are you using old reddit? [1] Do you find that slow as well??
[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/o67vzg/how_tro_get_ba...
Especially with modern tech, very few pieces of technology act as a single purpose; my phone can be just a phone, just a camera, just a chat application, or any combination of the above. Whether it's a toy or a work tool or a social media device changes depending on how its being used.
HackerNews is the same, in that you can just use it as a link aggregator, maybe you like it as a "classic" forum, maybe you use it for advertising. (HN-ready articles that are basically advertisements are quite common and popular even)
I think before anyone can really answer if something is social media or not, it needs to be better defined what it actually encompasses now as oppose to when the term was coined. Like, is a Glade AirFreshner a social media device just because you can tweet from it?
0 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8064945/pdf/cyb... I guess this says it originated in 1990? But it doesn't seem well defined.
In consumer finance, CACs are even higher. For standard credit cards it’s around $200 but can be over $1000 for premium cards.
[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/01/23/netflixs-83-millio... [2]https://www.unifimoney.com/blog/changing-the-vicious-cycle-o...
I've reported threats of violence similar to what you describes over at https://www.reddit.com/report and they removed it after a day or two, even comments that were highly upvoted.
This is a tool to purge your reddit comments. It first edits them to something else, then deletes them. Reddit admins have claimed that this is a true delete, as opposed to setting a delete flag.
As the URL suggests, at this pricing RIF will simply die.
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-...
- "There won't be as many people." That's ok, probably even a good thing. 1.5-2.5 million users are more than enough, especially considering most of them are power users. I believe HN has around 1.5-2.5 million and the content here is way better than Reddit.
- "Making a social network is hard." Yes, but it's not too hard. Scaling is hard, but we're not scaling to Reddit's size (100+ million); and Mastodon has issues with scaling, but that's because their protocol is super-redundant in an effort to be decentralized (and apparently also kind of sucks). HN runs on 2 servers and uses a LISP dialect (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28478379); even though HN is text-only and Apollo would have images or videos, I'm 100% certain there are enough dedicated Reddit users who can make this a reality.
- Also be aware that Reddit's community is different than Facebook, Twitter, YouTube; they're a lot more tech-savvy, a lot more anonymous, favor NSFW a lot more, and a lot more anti-corporate. Especially the moderators, who honestly control most of the community (though it's usually a bad thing). We're going to need those moderators to prevent the Apollo social network from becoming the next 4chan (because, hopefully you understand, that's a bad thing)
There's absolutely going to be an exodus if Reddit does anything non-negligible, the only reason Reddit is even considering moving ahead with these changes is because they don't care.
Because they aren't having to pay for hosting.
The only way to replace reddit is with a distributed system like aether: https://getaether.net/
Or if you absolutely want a centralized system, something community run like ao3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_of_Our_Own
But given the absolute hostility and hate _users_ of reddit give those two sites for not banning everything they find offensive a site like reddit is just not possible any more.
It's not working. https://imgur.com/a/6blpTqF
[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/31/reddit-apollo-a...
Amazon made this explicit with their Geospatial API pricing ( https://aws.amazon.com/location/pricing/ - "Places" tab) - where the pricing for being able to store a result is 8x higher.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...
The sooner it's gone, the better.
> Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth. Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society.
You can see Reddit as a landlord, owning the land (or website) that the value grows on. They don't contribute value themselves, instead they make money by charging rent to everyone who wishes to grow value on their land.
Reddit has been privately owned since 2006: https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/condenast-acquires-re...
And it's been a shitshow since they pulled their free speech bait & switch in 2015, so good riddance.
This feels like exaggeration. Unless there's something I missed?
"My thoughts: I think if done well and done reasonably, this could be a positive change (but that's a big if). If Reddit provides a means for third party apps to have a stable, consistent, and future-looking relationship with Reddit that certainly has its advantages, and does not sound unreasonable, provided the pricing is reasonable." https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
> you had conversations with their management and they want you to succeed, now we have a problem.
If this did happen, but later management double-crossed me, would you then rip on me?
Reddit has something like this, but definitely not as intentional,
- https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.json
- https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.rss
- https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.xml
>The only thing Reddit has going for it IMO is the uniform UI across communities and they seem determined to make that a crappy experience from what I've seen.
Old reddit had stylesheets and they could be very interesting. I still prefer that over the current thing they built.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_de...
It's the only reason I use reddit and I will definitely not use the site anymore if this app goes away.
Probably a good thing...
It might have changed since then but from what I remember of reading through the lead devs reasoning behind the "feature" I want no part of that ecosystem.
Create post -> share url -> instant chatroom based around the topic -> live chat with anyone on the net in seconds (hopefully have fun). Open to feedback :)
https://r.nf/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_re...
Make it work with https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy would be one idea. I have absolutely no clue how hard this would be though.
They did resort to all kinds of tricks. But your overal point still stands. The performance of python is lacking memory and it's embarrassingly slow. I hope python4 will have scripted for developing and compiled for production, like Dart. And a great compiler like Rust.
[0]https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...
I'm not sure what they expect...we've all seen it happen with social-media, it starts out all open and free, and then investors get involved and soon enough people have already moved on to the next open and free alternative. 4chan is the only exception to this rule. But if 4chan somehow got transformed into a for-profit service, then things have already gotten very bad.
> Private property is foundational to capitalism, an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. The distinction between private and personal property varies depending on political philosophy, with socialist perspectives making a hard distinction between the two. As a legal concept, private property is defined and enforced by a country's political system.
> The distinction between private and personal property varies depending on political philosophy
That is a political statement, whereas what I described is a practical situation of life. Do you support the viewpoint that I replied to that it doesn't matter if someone owns something, even if they worked hard for it, that you should be able to come in and takeover because of discourse that happens there? If so we can disagree on that, there's no need to make it a wider political statement.
Lemmygrad is a server for Marxists. They say so on the topmost post when you open the website (https://lemmygrad.ml/post/668436).
Of course Lemmygrad is for marxists. That's my point.
https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...
"We don’t allow apps that interfere with […] or access in an unauthorized manner […] other […] servers, networks, application programming interfaces (APIs), or services, including but not limited to other apps on the device, any Google service, or an authorized carrier’s network."
"Examples of common violations: […] Apps that access or use a service or API in a manner that violates its terms of service."
A server with nothing on it is worse than taking up space, it's an investment of energy and CO2 release to make it and ship it around the world, and if it's powered on then it's taking electricity probably from fossil fuels and turning it into waste heat.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial_weed
[2] https://gardenerspath.com/plants/herbs/edible-medicinal-weed...
