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by anonred 3mo ago
It is not. https://www.artsy.net/artwork/melvin-sokolsky-parker-train
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Backblaze updated Terms of Service (2026)(backblaze.com)
3 points by anonred 6mo ago|1 comments
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by anonred 6mo ago
Compare to the previous ToS: https://www.backblaze.com/company/policy/terms-of-service
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visionOS thermally throttles based on how much it hears the fans in the mics(twitter.com)
114 points by anonred 2y ago|49 comments
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by anonred 3y ago
Would you be willing to bet a token amount, say the current base cost of a Vision Pro ($3500), that in 48 months (giving you some buffer here) Apple has fully withdrawn support for the Vision line and does not release a new model? That’s th
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by anonred 3y ago
Please don’t do this, it’ll just make it even harder for actual developers and moderators to use Reddit’s API if people start abusing it.
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by anonred 3y ago
Do you have a source for the 30% manual mod actions claim?
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by anonred 3y ago
> all monetization of api calls has to be done through Reddit and the API itself How does this work with IAP and ads? Or do you mean that only Reddit Premium users should have access to third party apps? Because that would be much more e
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by anonred 3y ago
It’s impressive what a determined, vocal minority can achieve with just a bit of drama. I hope this ends quickly so everyone else can get back to aimlessly doomscrolling on Reddit.
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by anonred 3y ago
GP is saying Reddit could trivially skim 30% off of third party app revenue. How is checking app API traffic levels relevant? This is revenue that apps would get through IAP or ads, where Reddit has no visibility. Good luck enforcing any ki
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by anonred 3y ago
I also left Twitter when Tweetbot died, but only because I can’t use Twitter without a chronological timeline and keyword filtering. My impression is that third party Reddit apps had some nice quality of life features, but their main purpos
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by anonred 3y ago
I’d love to see a source for “people that generate the bulk of the content on Reddit do rely on third party apps” because that seems categorically impossible when you consider the number of users able to post (i.e. subscribed) using these t
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by anonred 3y ago
The number of users on these platforms has increased considerably. Orchestrating a “movement” consisting of hundreds of millions of people takes a really significant forcing function that affects everyone, not just a vocal minority.
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by anonred 3y ago
So third-party devs would have to manually cut them a check every month? How would Reddit validate that they’re getting the correct amount? Multiply this logistical nightmare by hundreds of third party developers.
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by anonred 3y ago
> The impression I get is that third-party apps are disproportionately used by the kinds of users that supply content more than average Are you saying that most users who post content also use third-party apps, or that most third-party a
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by anonred 3y ago
Hypothesis: Apple is a hardware company that also does software, and that ethos allows them to ship more complex products over much longer time scales than their competitors.
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by anonred 3y ago
Christian interned for a summer at Apple. I don’t understand why he pushes this narrative given that Apollo is good enough to stand on its own without shady marketing tactics.
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by anonred 3y ago
We don’t need a separate HN post for every subreddit that’s doing this.
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by anonred 3y ago
I’d be willing to be the opposite given how hard Reddit is pushing this. But like you said, it’s impossible to tell without a separate category for third party apps.
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by anonred 3y ago
Just being able to block spammy Stack Overflow clones from ever appearing in the results is worth the price of admission for me.
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by anonred 3y ago
Third party apps are billed in aggregate each month. It’s up to them to decide how that’s split between users.
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by anonred 3y ago
With the cost per request model, third party apps have more autonomy to dictate how much users pay per month.
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by anonred 3y ago
Reddit Premium costs more per month ($7) than the expected cost per user for the API ($2). If third party apps can’t make it work with the request-based pricing model, limiting access to just premium users isn’t going to work any better.
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by anonred 3y ago
Do you have a source for “a large portion of reddit contributors use 3rd party apps”? And what percent are we talking about here?
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by anonred 3y ago
How do you plan on keeping FlingUp from turning into Voat?
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by anonred 3y ago
This is probably what will end up happening and ironically is a worse result for third-party apps than the pricing model that’s causing a ruckus.
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by anonred 3y ago
At a certain point Reddit might decide that it’s simpler and cheaper to pay an ops person $15/hr to manage a high-profile subreddit than deal with the unpredictability of volunteer moderators. That’s ultimately where this is heading.
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by anonred 3y ago
That’s a great example of something that could be optimized without impacting the user experience. For example, just request the next page of posts when the user starts to reach the bottom. The reason for my confidence is that I’ve worked w
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by anonred 3y ago
Third party apps are just missing too many features that I use like chat, voting in polls, live threads, etc. No idea whether that’s Reddit’s fault or the dev’s, but it’s a deal breaker regardless.
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by anonred 3y ago
It’s possible to make fewer requests without negatively impacting the user experience. For example, batching requests would result in a more responsive app.

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