Reddit third-party app Apollo makes “millions”
One of biggest sources of tension in Reddit moderator-led protest has been Apollo, a third-party Reddit app that’s set to close at the end of the month because its developer said he can’t afford the company’s new price to access its API. Huffman has previously railed against Apollo and its developer Christian Selig publicly and stated that the company can’t “subsidize” commercial entities like Apollo.
The Reddit CEO told The Verge that Selig and other third-party apps had made millions using the social media app’s API for free.
“These aren’t like side projects or charities, they’ve made millions. One is owned by an ad network. They have no contract with us,” Huffman said. “Reddit’s the only company that allows these sort of competitive products to exist, and we’ll allow them to continue to exist if it’s fair, if they’re on equal footing, which is paying for their data in the same way that we have to.”
