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by that_guy_iain 1108 days ago
Realistically, it would cost more to start a new Reddit using Apollo than it would to pay Reddit for API fees.

Sure the server costs for the API costs alone aren't 1.2m a month for Reddit. But when you add in all the things that need to operate. Databases, storage, data transfer, etc. It would realistically be more than 1.2m in server costs. That's without paying people to build and maintain it.