Reddit moderators are unpaid volunteers.
And among the worst sorts of people imaginable. Maybe they should be paid positions that are interviewed for and regularly undergo performance reviews.
Re:Sync will shut down on June 30, 2023
by johnnyanmac on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:05PM
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>The problem apps are shutting down is because they don't want to loose money. If they make a new site, they will likely loose even more money.
Given the quotes I heard, I'd be very surprised if you lost more money in say, 2 years of building and hosting a new site than trying to even support a month of API calls from reddit c. July 2023.
You can certainly make a decent front end for little cost (even if we're talking about paying competitive rates to a few talented mobile devs) and a small backend won't cost much more. It's always about the community to gather to make all that work. That's the hard part.
The problem apps are shutting down is because they don't want to loose money. If they make a new site, they will likely loose even more money. And they likely can't get profitable without resorting to same scummy behaviour as reddit.