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That’s basically it. They keep control. They can charge subscriptions. They own it. Not you.

To me, Reddit’s policy seems to be driven as much by spite as anything else.

Yep I agree. No reason to force them to remove their own advertising.

My guess since both apps doing this model have immediately removed their own advertising is that they are exempt from the api pricing for a few months.

I can’t see either dev cutting off their revenue stream (app ads) and then eating the api cost on the same day. Especially if users swarm to them as they are the last standing 3rd party app on their platform. Individuals wouldn’t take on that kind of liability.

I’m still learning but share your concern.

I also think there’s different dimensions to the growth too. A lemmy server such as programming.dev may have many communities which become popular and it’s primary task is to be the home to those communities and federate that out to the wider community.

At the same time it has to pull in any random community that even a single user on that server wants to look at and store it.

The server that is home to programming discussion could buckle under the load of too many posts to /c/funny. It doesn’t seem right. They are different responsiblities.