I had a feeling they’ll put something like this, so I went in every now and then to see how infinity will react. I really loved the app, devs did an amazing job
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[Screenshot of the Infinity app for Reddit. A pop-up notification is on the bottom of the screen.]
Important Notice Regarding Reddit API Changes
Starting from July 1st, 2023, Reddit API will be pay-per-use for 3rd-party clients, which include Infinity for Reddit. The announcement from Reddit can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api
In order to survive this change, Infinity will become a subscription-only app after July 1st. You can learn more about the changes in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/147bhsg/the_future_of_infinity
It’s required for you to update Infinity after July 1st so that you will get the new version with subscription options. None of the previous versions (including this one) will work after July 1st. But due to a tight timeline Reddit gave, the update may not be available immediately on July 1st since it requires proper testing. Thank you for your understanding!
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There’s a Lemmy ToR? ToL? I’m in. 30 transcriptions on reddit, time to carry on the legacy.
I created !TranscribersOfLemmy@discuss.tchncs.de but we got a lot of work to do.
I was an Infinity user but I can’t help but feel this is the wrong move. After all Reddit has done to them they just set up a way to siphon miney straight to them for the devs’ hard work?
Why?
Infinity is open source. You can change the key and user agent (and one more field, but it escapes me at the moment), compile your own APK, and continue using it for free.
Will it work without the reddit API though? Maybe if there’s a way to scrape the site but idk how everything else could be handled.
you need to get it for yourself, but you won’t be able to see nsfw at july 1 :(
The new version will not be.
Where did you see that? He said he’s charging for it and would not tell anyone how to change things to get past reddit, but that there’s a guide already out there that will walk people through the changes that need to be made.
I’d be interested in seeing where he said he’s no longer providing source code updates.
And isn’t it a little unethical not to even mention nsfw?
There goes the client I used. I deleted my reddit accounts already anyway.
What are they going to charge?
A least $15 a month.
Non power users probably wont pay, and any lower and they’ll definitely lose money.
I don’t see how paying more than Netflix will do anything other than kill that app.
I guess if the app’s dead either way, they don’t see any harm in giving it a try.
It’s just giving money away to Reddit.
That’s the real issue. I would have gladly paid Apollo $5-$10 a month considering how much I used the app and loved it but the fact that so much of it doesn’t go to the developer because Reddit wants to charge 27x more for 3rd party users is ridiculous.
Reddit fully intends to kill third party apps slowly while milking their dying bodies for profit
It’s going to be a slow glorious death
I only read from the Apollo guy, that the amount of requests the users of his app make, would get him to pay reddit 20 million a year. So, the more popular your 3rd party app is, the more they would have to pay Reddit.
The one i use, Sync for Reddit, is also dying before the 1st of July arrives. From there on, the new prices apply.
Reddits motivation for this, is to get paid for API access by companies like ChatGPT. They suck reddits content, our posts, in order to feed the AI with content. I assume they do it big style and Reddit wants to cash in for this.
Reddit will just get scraped then.
Reddits motivation for this, is to get paid for API access by companies like ChatGPT. They suck reddits content, our posts, in order to feed the AI with content. I assume they do it big style and Reddit wants to cash in for this.
That’s not their only motivation otherwise they’d be charging only the companies like chatgpt for access
They’re charging one of the third party apps $20 million for api access
Any number higher than FREE.99 is too high just to access Reddit.
Definitely. I’m just curious what amount makes it worthwhile to keep the app alive
Couldn’t agree more!
A number of devs talked about the pricing and the consensus seems to be that the fee applied to keep the apps afloat would need to be pretty high and they don’t see how it can be sustainable.
I wonder how much Infinity is planning on asking and I doubt its user base will be so keen on paying that much.
It would be cool if it gave the option to pay more per month as a donation. That would allow wealthy users to help lower the cost for less wealthy users
Yeah like $5 a month for more casual users. And people paying for apps tend to use them more. I think Apollo’s calculations were like $10-12/mo for higher end users? Anything over $5/mo is probably a no-go so I wonder if it’ll be viable.
And if Infinity’s userbase makes $5/mo viable, I wonder if they’ll get flocks of users from other apps and if that’ll make it non-viable with high-traffic users.
Or maybe they’ll go with a post-paid plan where you pay by usage? That seems iffy.
Which is nuts. I was Apollo Ultra, and that was $10/year.
I honestly never looked into Reddit premium until all the API drama and was shocked it is $50/year, while only offering a fraction of what Apollo offered. Crazy pricing.
Keep in mind too, that even with the paid API usage to the best of my knowledge the 3PA still will not have NSFW/porn content in the feed. How many people are going to be willing to spend $5-10/mo while also having reduced content?
I certainly won’t that’s for sure. I’m a current infinity user.
The other weird part is, I’m sure a lot of Lemmy users would be more than happy to donate much more to a good cause than an average Google Store app user who can ask for refund at any time and then leave 1 star.
The apps for lemmy have good potential once the bugs are resolved, but in terms of UI design, nothing beats Infinty imo
I agree infinity’s ui was the best
That one downvote? Is that you Apollo lover (I am too but it wasn’t I)
I was really hoping to see an “Infinity for Lemmy” app. Oh well; Jerboa it is I guess.
Edit: spelling
Liftoff is pretty good
I need to second this one! Tried some of the apps that came out in the past couple of weeks/days and Liftoff is the one I stuck with. The button at the top where you can switch to different instances with a single tap actually made me better understand the whole way Fediverse works. Now I switch between Beehaw, Lemmy world and some of the more obscure ones super simple (I am sure one could do this with other apps also but with Liftoff it just clicked for me).
My homescreen is still littered with a lot of the same stuff because a lot of instances have similar stuff on them but this is the first time I have something resembling control over the content I am reading in the Fediverse.
(still mourning the loss of RIF and it’s simple and incredible easy to use interface. I truly hope RIF’s dev makes an app for Lemmy!)
I heard that Sync for Lemmy is going to be a thing.
I’m trying out Connect For Lemmy which came out a few days ago, seems nicer than Jerboa to me so far.
I’m sure Reddit has figured out how much to charge to ensure they get the money they would get for premium one way or another. They aren’t getting anything out of me.
What happened to supporting user’s API keys?
Iirc it’s no longer allowed per Reddit’s new policies
Sync I paid for cus it was just so slick, Infinity not so much. I certainly won’t pay.
That would be the client I used - it’s a shame they’re being pushed to this.
Once that app goes subscription, I’ll run a purge on my account and drop in a GDPR request invoking my right to be deleted.
I love Infinity but I deleted the app the instant I read that, I was gonna wait until July 1st to see if something changes, but damn
Although I am a bit annoyed at this whole stink related to the Reddit API, I am also wondering if the website itself will also break on July 1. I’m guessing for now that it will keep working, but I guess if it stops, I’ll have to send a dirty letter to them to delete my account.
Even if they setup a subscription model, the api is not going to give them access to any nsfw content. Who will pay for a subscription to not be able to see any nsfw stuff, while they can get it for free on the Reddit app?
Social media as a business model rapidly becomes unethical
cough more unethical
