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To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.

It's her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.

In my view, the cross section of "IfR" users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).

And if Apollo's dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn't worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don't see how a small app like IfR can survive.

That, or he made a pretty expensive mistake...

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cross section of "IfR" users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small

Absolutely. I used Infinity for years now because it's open source and on F-Droid. I used it to get away from Google and the Reddit App. Donating for Infinity's developer? Sure thing. Paying money only to finance reddits API policy? For sure not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think most users will understand where their money is actually going...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is going to be even better of an experience for IfR's dev: "why is your app so expensive?", "We pay SO MUCH and still have bugs...", "Hey, with what I pay you, I sure would expect the feature I requested to be implemented already". Oh boy, what fun. My only regret is that this probably isn't going to be public, because I can definitely afford popcorn. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Someone should tell the developer to not do that. They should just shut down their app.