This is getting so stupid, it’s beginning to sound like The Onion. Why don’t they just start charging for reading posts.
Here’s an idea: Every day you get 5 Reddit Emeralds for free, and you can use them to read 5 posts. If you want to read more, you can get more emeralds from Common Reddit Loot Boxes. You can buy those boxes with Reddit Rubies.
You can get Reddit rubies from Rare Reddit Loot Boxes, and in order to get those, you have to use Reddit Diamonds. If you have 19 Common boxes you can also craft 1 Rare Loot Box. Doing so will also require 10 rubies.
You can also buy Reddit Diamonds with Superior Crypto-Augmented Money (SCAM), and getting those coins requires real world money.
Ok, so now that you have all these gems, you can put them to good use. Emeralds are used to read posts. When you comment, there’s a 50% chance that it will be deleted within 30 minutes, but you can improve your odds by spending 1 Reddit Ruby. For each Ruby, the odds improve by 10%. Posts have the same mechanism, but you need to spend Diamonds instead.
/u/spez is violently taking notes.
Too plausible!
I can’t believe they push third-party devs away and then try to make Reddit as unappealing as possible! Like, I used their stupid app and I CAN’T HANDLE how much that stupid app LAGS!! If they want people to pay, they better be a damn good app. Like, this is just evil at this point!
I’m just saying, but Reddit is just becoming a money grab. I appreciated third-party devs because they made Reddit more enjoyable. My favorite app to use Reddit on is no longer effective due to Reddit’s changes. That’s why I’m on Lemmy now :/
Interestingly this may piss off more people than the real issues. Most people didn’t seem to care at all about the API / 3rd party app support issues as long as they got their Reddit doom-scroll fix. But I bet whole bunch of these will be upset at having an ugly pixelated icon on their phone, muhawhaw.
Just more subscription hell. It’s ridiculous anymore. I’ll need a subscription to flush my toilet at some point. I mean how much of this are consumers willing to put up with. Anyway Reddit is well on the path of monetizing themselves to irrelevance.
anymore
That’s not how that word works.
Edit: I didn’t say I I’ve never seen it used that way, i just find that particular use of it to be wrong.
The positive sense usage of anymore is a regional thing: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anymore
But the previous poster didn’t use it in that way.
at the present time : NOW, NOWADAYS Hardly a day passes without rain anymore.
That’s not how they used it though. Grammatical construction matters
Just more subscription hell. It’s ridiculous anymore.
“It’s ridiculous these days”
“I don’t go out any more”
I would probably pay tbh. I hate my home screen looking bad. I’m on Android and use custom icons, but if I had no other options I’d pay for it.
$50 per year to change an icon.
It’s not about the money. It’s the stench of the thing.
They bent us over rather than asking for consent.
Quick question… Using the jerboa app, if I click a link… What happens if I accept cookies?
With RIF I knew they wouldn’t be saved.
What’s the situation for me now?
£5.99 a month…
i cant believe people actually pay that for what is essentially a forum.
it’d probably be decades before they made that off me in advertising.
They could have had my money too if what they were asking were reasonable and i retained the ability to use RIF
Yeah if they made it so that you had to pay $5 per month or moderate a sub with >10k subscribers to keep using third party apps, none of this would happened and they would have been able to make more money off of it.
$5 a month is still a lot imo. i’d do $12 a year ($1 a month billed annually or 6 monthly) which is still an order of magnitude larger than the amount they would get from advertising for me
RIF is still working (not using it but i have friends that showed it to me) i dont know why
Intermittently working for me, cannot log in though
