I can 100% acknowledge that social media is damaging to my psychological well-being. So while I have an unhealthy addiction to it, I can luckily draw the line at paying for it. I will never pay to use any social media platform.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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I paid for Reddit Premium. (have cancelled it now).
If the API would be full-featured (so including explicit content) and if I still don't get ads, I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable amount.
At least I would have before their CEO started burning bridges. Right now I'm done with reddit.
They're not getting my eyeballs nor my money anymore.
Originally I would have. Like if they made it something reasonable, $1/month for the API access for example. And the app developer could make it a $2-3 a month subscription so they also get funding on top.
The way Reddit has acted though they burned all bridges. I nuked my 11 year old account and overwrote all my comments and posts for that time.
It absolutely makes sense why Reddit is doing this, but it will only get worse from there. This is not about ad-revenue (or it's only a small part of it). Reddit wants to get rid of third party apps for several reasons:
- User data, they can't track you as well and sell your data if you don't use their native apps
- NFTs: Third party apps are similar to old.reddit.com, there are no avatars, limited awards, new Reddit features are often ignored. Can't sell shit in your shop if your users can't see it
- Advertisement: Of course they could have pushed ads over the API, but at this point it's not enough for them
- Censorship: The API is also used for archiving posts, keeping a history of posts and comments and so on. Reddit wants full control over their content
Reddit is already making the mobile browser version of their site unusable (It keeps forcing you to the app, doesn't show some content, doesn't show NSFW and they even made a beta version for a few users that breaks the entire site). They want you on their app. old.reddit.com is next to go, I bet on it, it will take a while but it's 100% at this point.
The whole site is fucked :-/
I would have
I'll be the odd one out. Yeah. I'd pay $12 a year (I think thats the number spez threw out) to use sync as I do now: add free and access to all subreddits.
Reddit premium is 5/mo afaik