How fucking bad does your math need to be to not realize that 250k in refunds for a 6 month period where the app is unusable equals 250k in revenue for the first 6 months of the year? All y’all are like “dev needs to eat, he deserves our support!” and the guy’s pulling down over 500k/year.

To be fair, a lot of those people are Reddit refugees that fled to lemmy.world and were fairly removed to begin with. I’m honestly not even sure why they left Reddit to begin with.

I’d be happy if the primarily mobile users fell into open manholes.

Exactly. That’s his m.o., find a free content farm and charge people to access it. And yet people eat it up, which is insane.

With an optional purchase to support the dev.

You mean the schuckster trying to make a buck using another free API after the last one booted him out? Guy’s a slimeball.

I had a mobile app for Reddit on my phone, you know when I used it last? 9 months ago when I was sitting in a waiting room waiting for an oil change. Every other time when I’m away from the computer I’m doing non-fucking-computer things.

This guy’s whole shtick was to make enough money to quit his day job, so he wrote a wrapper around someone else’s content using their free API. “Oh he did it all by himself, that’s amazing!” It’s really not, especially if you’d rather not share the subscription profits with other employees.

The FOSS alternatives? Done by guys with day jobs. They’re passion projects. I can respect that.

But you lot, who will drop to your knees the minute the guy wants to repeat his shtick now that Reddit kicked him to the curb? Zero respect at all.

It amazes me the how far Reddit users will bend over backwards to suck this dude’s schlong. Must be a mobile-user thing.

The Smurfs were communist… though to be fair there was only 100 of them, and they all had jobs, and enough resources to go around. That one female though…

Shit like this is why people look down on the Fediverse. You’re in /c/Memes, not your usual fedora wearing, neckbeard vegan channel.

Holy shit.

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Sure buddy. EU politicians are just absolute saints compared to the rest of the world, and there’s nothing in it for them. Jesus.

Are they objectively doing this to help consumers though, or is there another reason and it just so happens to benefit consumers.

The first one is demographics; since 47% of the users are Americans, and 21% of them are 10-19yo, it’s safe to say that ~60% of the users are ineligible, and thus will only contribute for free.

Just want to point out that there are a ton of Telegram communities focused on bypassing these types of limitations, because $0.10 USD for 1000 upvotes goes a lot farther in rural India than it does in Indiana.

By offering an incentive program, they’ve just opened up the door for a whole new third world economy. They should have stuck to fighting 3rd party API access tbh.