To each their own, but I find this decision really misguided.

It’s her money, not mine, so whatever, but l do not expect her to turn a profit in, rather the opposite.

In my view, the cross section of “IfR” users and people willing to subscribe monthly is rather small (especially if the money mostly goes to reddit - assuming I could afford it, I, for instance, would rather fund an open system like Lemmy).

And if Apollo’s dev Christian Selig decided that it wasn’t worth it with an already established paying user base, who already has a strong culture of subscriptions and exaggerated pricings, and one of the highest volume of users, at what probably was the peak usage of the platform; I don’t see how a small app like IfR can survive.

That, or Christian made a pretty expensive mistake…

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    Yeah I’ve used Infinity for over two years, but won’t after this update. I couldn’t imagine paying money to Infinity only to have it go directly to Reddit. Tbh, I don’t think paying money to any non-open, profit-driven social network is a good idea.

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      I feel like using them for free is an even worse idea. At least if you’re paying there’s a chance they’ll treat you like a customer.