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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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[–] zombuey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean aren't they just trying to cover the cost of operation? I guess they figure we can make it a subscription based app or we can shut it down. IFR has no choice in the matter. Reddit made this decision.

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[–] grissee@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

oot but, who is 'her' exactly?

edit: guys I'm serious, idk if op just mixed the pronouns or christian is a trans (unlikely since christian is a man name)

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