📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is. - r/apolloapp
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…to keep running as is.

creator of Apollo, a popular Reddit client for iOS, relays his talks with Reddit about upcoming ridiculous API pricing.

  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m of mixed mind on this. I’m not sure we’ve really figured out how to scale beehaw or if it even can be scaled. I can’t imagine a smaller community like this actually adhering to it’s principles at a size of even 1/1000th of Reddit.

    While I greatly appreciate the influx of users and hope it helps to sustain this environment with lots of wonderful content, I also worry about decisions we may need to make in the future to ensure it stays a nice place. The more attention and the more mainstream it becomes, the more difficult it becomes to keep things civil. People like to misbehave on the Internet and part of the reason places like this work is people being upset with this paradigm, but that can only be successful if it’s mostly people upset with the paradigm registering and not the people who are out there being mean to others.

    • Lvxferre@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I agree that, past a certain size, it becomes harder to enforce behaviour. However that’s where I think that the nature of the Fediverse helps a lot.

      As long as maintenance of the userbase is done diligently, and no Eternal September changes the nature of the core userbase, people who want a rougher community will eventually migrate to their own instances. It’s hard to do this in Reddit, but perfectly doable in the Fediverse, and the migrating users don’t even need to break ties with Beehaw.

      So in effect, the problem (people wanting to behave in a way not allowed by the community) solves itself. I think that this gives Beehaw way more room to scale than it looks like.