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Yeah, they’ll eventually drive more and more people into sailing the open seas if they keep making these moves.
Yeah, they’ll eventually drive more and more people into sailing the open seas if they keep making these moves.
“Our pricing is $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, which equates to <$1.00 per user monthly for a reasonably operated app,” the Reddit worker said.
Uhh… Plenty of services charge less than half of that for the same number of API calls, and they are still able to make money. I would imagine that as large as Reddit is, their cost per 1k calls is way less than $0.10, unless their API is poorly engineered and inefficient AF. This is 100% them just trying to drive third parties out so they can get that sweet sweet ad revenue.
What’s funny is there is nothing stopping them from making their own instance. I think the hesitation stems from them coming to grips with reality that few people really want to engage with their messaging when they step out of their bubble.
Honestly though, if there is one thing Apple is really good at, it’s normalizing things that many might perceive as weird at first. I remember owning a first-gen Pebble, and I had numerous people jest about dorky it was with gems like, “You totally owned a calculator watch didn’t you?” Fast forward a few years, and Apple Watches are everywhere. Wearing a Vision headset at a kids birthday party will probably be on the same level as busting out an iPad to capture a video.
Fully agree. I think there are some practical, workforce related, use cases for AR/VR, but the idea of strapping into one for 8+ hours a day… No thanks.
Ultimately I agree with you. It’s mostly going to come down to getting more people acquainted to this mindset.
I had a bit of a rocky start, but I picked up the concepts fairly quickly.
The Good:
The Less Good:
m/movies
, whoever runs that mono could add movie-specific feeds from places like lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.All in all, I’m happy with my decision to check this place out and am hopeful more people will come aboard in time. It’s already become a part of my daily routine.
Honestly, and I say this with no disrespect, but I feel like the UX is pretty lackluster across this entire ecosystem. It’s understandable, since I would imagine the bulk of developer priority is going towards just making things work as reliably as possible on the backend side of things. Fortunately, given the open source nature of things, I feel like the community will fill these gaps in over time. :)
I was thinking about this last night. I think this would be great for something like Television, Movies, Books, etc.
You could have an instance like television.social (or whatever) and then create all the various communities from there. You could have a main
community that serves as a place where general posts and discussion goes, and then create additional communities for individual shows.
At the end of the day, there are no hard rules in place for this, so communal overlap will likely be something that we’ll have to deal with for the foreseeable future, but I do hope that we’ll see this convention adopted by more users as time goes on.
I use MacOS because I’m lazier.