For those who don’t know, Reddit announced they would start asking outrageous prices for API access, which will essentially kill off all third party apps.
We’ve received quite a few new account requests after this announcement, and expect to receive more, so this post is aimed at you, prospective lemmygrad member!
We’ll go through each account application with due diligence, but we would like you to know before you request an account that Lemmygrad is a Marxist instance, principally Marxist-Leninist. We like Stalin and we uphold the DPRK’s sovereignty and legitimacy over the whole of Korea. We love China’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.
You can always request an account but you will likely be disappointed in your browsing experience if we approve you and you find yourself surrounded by MLs if you are not one.
Up to a few seconds ago, our tagline said “leftist communities” instead of “marxist communities” on join-lemmy, and I’m guessing that’s why many non-marxist socialists wanted to join us.
You might prefer lemmy.ml or hexbear.net, although hexbear is not federated with anyone yet.
Small correction. Reddit has not announced their API costs publicly. The news stems from the dev of an third party Reddit client (Apollo) sharing what he discussed with Reddit representatives on a private phone call. But their is no reason to not believe that Reddit will try to price out third party clients to be able to mould the user experience to their will.
the thing that was funny about it is that Apollo would need to pay TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS a year on average to cover for all the API requests it needs.
Reddit will go forward with this, it will go public and they know that their biggest selling point is user data. Which isn’t worth a lot if third parties can access it for free anyway.