What does it actually cost? I have no basis for a ballpark guess even. I’ve seen this question asked to a number of admins and haven’t seen a direct answer.

It’s hard to judge how sustainable a donation based approach is without that info.

Isn’t this a case of take your own advice?

Many instances have already defederated lots of stuff. If you feel strongly about that shouldn’t you migrate there over asking other instances to do the same thing? Seems like if he wanted to he would have here by now.

All just feel like fediverse problems and IMO the action should be take ~2 weeks off line and then evaluate there all the shit lands and decide. In thedude’s shoes, I would have already pulled the plug on this as way to much hassle to get into the middle of. Props to him for not.

I’m pretty worried we will end up with more of an HOA then a democracy.

Not sure we can get the sort of voting going that will attract more then the local busy bodies.

It’s even funnier/worse then I expected.

Jerboa notices that’s a link and makes it click able but clicking it opens my default email client instead of anything lemmy.

Is such a funny mix of “must be so retro” and "that carpet still looks new

I think the real answer has to be that he gave them real numbers he expected them to pay. They all said wtf no but he promised similar numbers to his investors from the official channels.

People who are doing better then him (profit wise) at his own game bailed when asked for things he promised to deliver.

Quantumbadger already put out his update. Summary is that he’s exempt from the new costs but we’re losing distribution channels which need source (ie fdroid repo) so he doesn’t publish his keys.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedReader/comments/145du4j/update_4_redreader_granted_noncommercial/

I’m shocked spez gave redreader a shout out as still trying to work with them.

That’s an other dev (quantumbadger) I would expect to be honest with his community. He’d been pretty vocal in earlier updates that he wasn’t going to be able to pay them at any price since his app is FOSS and distributed as source.

Curious what his next update will say.

I loved the commentary on that exchange from hackernews.

“”" fwlr 8 minutes ago | prev | next [–]

The rule that you shouldn’t build your business on someone else’s API obviously applies here and in the end Reddit is of course justified in choosing to shut out third party apps. But I must say it is simply hilarious that their exorbitant new price was so absurd that when devs quoted it back to them as a buyout rate, Reddit felt like they were being blackmailed. I mean that’s literally getting offended at your own number. “”"

He’s right. If you think the golden goose lays $x/yr and the guy offers it at $.5x and it offends you, you’ve got a problem with yourself.

I still see it no problem. Does have a negative net in votes though