• Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    $0.24 per 1000 requests is not being “fairly paid”. It’s an abusive price and it’s at least 10000x their actual server cost

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      1 year ago

      Wow. I had not done the math. That’s an obscene amount of money. 1000 requests is nothing for a web app like Reddit, even with agreeing over-fetching.

      The crazy thing is that they might have gotten away with it if they had structured it right. Set up the infastructure themselves to charge the individual user directly for their API use rather than the App creators. Carve out exceptions for moderation APIs and known moderation bots. I probably would have paid a few bucks a month to keep using Relay. I would have grumbled about it… but I would have done it.

      Now I’m just gonna leave, lol.