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I didn’t plan this far ahead (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by kismattic to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I used Relay Pro previously but seeing the cost breakdowns the dev posted for the new subscription was disheartening. The dev's portion of the subscription fee is near zero if you use near the limit of you subscription's monthly API requests. So at that point even subscribing isn't really supporting the dev as much as supporting the company that forced these changes upon us. So I chose to not take part.

Lemmy definitely isn't perfect, especially for smaller communities. But it's definitely workable and something I'm happy to contribute to.

[–] kismattic 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah Reddit really made the cost just impossible for any slightly active app unable to continue without any form of meaningful profit. I would have loved to support whatever Third Party app but yeah wouldn’t have been enough to keep them afloat.

For Lemmy not being perfect, it feels like it’s just more of a number of users issue vs an actual technical problem. Sure fediverse stuff can be complicated, but after signing up and searching communities you can pretty much do some normal Reddit feeling stuff IMO. I’m trying to revive the Twitch Lemmy community if anyone wants to help with that (I have no clue what to do)!

Edit: also adding that I didn’t think about moderation or tools that Lemmy may or may not have in place since I’ve never been a mod for any of that. So maybe a technical problem somewhere.