Reddit’s reason for monetizing the APIs was making an average of a dollar a year per user. That’s despite the official app having way more downloads than the 3rd party ones.
Facebook makes 50 dollars a year (which pretty much is a couple bucks a month) per user because it tracks you not only on its own website, but on most other websites too (like & share buttons, facebook pixel, etc) even if you don’t have an account.
If you pay $5 per year to your instance host, it is more than they can make with unintrusive ads.
Reddit’s reason for monetizing the APIs was making an average of a dollar a year per user. That’s despite the official app having way more downloads than the 3rd party ones.
Facebook makes 50 dollars a year (which pretty much is a couple bucks a month) per user because it tracks you not only on its own website, but on most other websites too (like & share buttons, facebook pixel, etc) even if you don’t have an account.
If you pay $5 per year to your instance host, it is more than they can make with unintrusive ads.
If you can pay a dollar a month, it’s WAY more.