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Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA | Hacker News

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This whole drama is very odd to me and feels like a (very) vocal minority of users incorrectly extrapolating their preferences to those of all Reddit users.

Reddit owns its API. It has every right to price access however they see fit. It is wild to think that will spend $10s of millions to support 3rd party apps. Or to expect that they would acquire third party apps.

I predict Reddit will stick to their guns and that this entire brouhaha will have little to no effect on Reddit's user and engagement metrics over the medium term.

If you're outraged and highly engaged with this controversy, do you think its possible you're in a bubble?


Why does the Apollo guy see the API as his entitlement? Reddit ain’t a charity. Neither is HN.


You fill a site with communists who don’t want to work and think everything should be free and then you’re surprised when the reality of running a business outrages them? Stop trying to have it both ways.


The reality is that the Reddit users that actually care about this enough to show up and rage in the AMA are also the ones that are almost completely unmonetizable. So I doubt there was ever really any risk of major loss from this.

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Apollo was pretty good tbh. I don't understand why he can't just charge a monthly subscription service to use the app. Or raise the initial one-time fee.

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>paying to use an app to browse reddit monthly.

:#soysnoo4:

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I already own the app sucka. I only pay monthly subscriptions to Filmic Pro, Disney+, Netflix, Max (RIP HBO), Amazon Prime, Costco, Bay Club, Apple Music, and other basic stuff. I'm not going to pay a monthly subscription to browse a social media site lol. What do I look like, a schmuck?

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>What do I look like, a schmuck?

If you have to ask you already know the answer

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Dis neighbor buying a new annual costco membership each month

!r-slurs

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Costco is worth it

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>What do I look like, a schmuck?

https://i.rdrama.net/images/16863621055860896.webp

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holy shit just buy a VPN wtf is wrong with you

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:marseybacking#intobush:

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:#marseydisagree:

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What do I look like, a schmuck?

:marseyhmm:

I only pay monthly subscriptions to Filmic Pro, Disney+, Netflix, Max (RIP HBO), Amazon Prime, Costco, Bay Club, Apple Music, and other basic stuff.

:marseylaugh:

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He said even if he went to only paid users only hed have to charge such absurd prices still he would have no users.

This entire thing is just a guise to force people into using the reddit branded app, lol.

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He has said he could but his app is paid yearly and since he only had 30 days notice he'd have to eat the api costs until all of the subscriptions renew.

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That's the problem with social media sites. If you put of a payment screen in front of your users, they will have to ask themselves whether reddit adds even a single dollar of value to their lives. Best not to let anyone ask themselves such a question.

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