They have big enough followings if they made their own app or even their own instance of a federated site they would be able to migrate most redditor.s.
They have big enough followings if they made their own app or even their own instance of a federated site they would be able to migrate most redditor.s.
We all know what you mean but for clarification: rif and appolo are apps. What you’re talking about is the reddit service/website/backend.
I’d suggested the same thing. They could develop a plug-in system that would allow their apps to interface with any service the user likes: reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Lemmy, Mastadon.
The answer is time and money. The makers of these apps have fulltime jobs. The apps are a hobby that probably barely covers its own costs.
When announcing the API changes, reddit dragged it out not giving any meaningful info until a month before enacting it. A month isn’t enough time to build a service like reddit. Lemmy for comparison has been in development for years and is still pretty bare-bones.
From what I’ve heard many of the app devs are re-doing their apps to work one of the federated services, but it takes time.
A service like is not cheap or easy. It’s requires a lot of server hardware, bandwidth, and money. As far as I know the devs are lone-wolfs. Also many of the users are cheap and like paying for stuff. Reddit has been around for 15 years and still isn’t profitable.