Re:We're joining the Reddit blackout from June 12th to 14th
by wolpoli on Monday June 05, 2023 @06:28PM
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> Seriously, I am meant to feel bad that someone who decided to directly compete with a company is now being charged money for the very thing that makes the app viable?
> There is a lot of talk of these apps being forced to shutdown due to the overhead of $2.50 a user per month. That is an extremely low overhead so low that a $5 a month subscription solves the entire drama very quickly.
> This is about Reddit users being too cheap to pay for something they want and used on a daily basis.
How do you find enough non-cheap users that pay $5 a month (and remits $2.50 to Reddit) to support a viable third-party client for Reddit and compete against the first-party client that is free and has more content?
> There is a lot of talk of these apps being forced to shutdown due to the overhead of $2.50 a user per month. That is an extremely low overhead so low that a $5 a month subscription solves the entire drama very quickly.
> This is about Reddit users being too cheap to pay for something they want and used on a daily basis.
How do you find enough non-cheap users that pay $5 a month (and remits $2.50 to Reddit) to support a viable third-party client for Reddit and compete against the first-party client that is free and has more content?