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To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.

It's her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.

In my view, the cross section of "IfR" users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).

And if Apollo's dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn't worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don't see how a small app like IfR can survive.

That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake...

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[–] gfrewqpoiu 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And even with that subscription, you still get locked out of any post or subreddit that is marked NSFW, which will now be even more since subreddits are still protesting the changes.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
[–] setsneedtofeed 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ever since the first pricing announcement, they said they’d lock out NSFW. Originally they said it would just be porn, but when asked how the API would differentiate different types of NSFW Reddit never replied.

When mods using 3PA asked how they were supposed to remove NSFW posts on non-NSFW subreddits, the Reddit reply was the posters shouldn’t be doing that. Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Right now nobody even knows which ones will be blocked or not because it's hardly visible at the moment. It's going to be an absolute clusterfuck once people start realizing their subreddits are improperly categorized as NSFW and are completely blocked from the API.

If it's the same as the mobile website, then new/small subreddits are blocked too for being "unreviewed".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Free speech absolutist except for boobies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes and they're already blocking mobile web access to most porn subreddit. Only from their app, for "safety" 😉

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[–] vita_man 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I believe the admins said it would only block access to NSFW communities, not a post flagged NSFW on an otherwise SFW community

But still bullshit