Infinity, a lesser known open-source third-party Reddit app for Android, has announced that it will be switching to a subscription-only model. This would mean that the F-Droid version of the app will be delisted and the API key currently in the source code of the app will be removed. As of this post, the developer is currently not interested in converting Infinity into a Lemmy client, but encourages others to look into doing it themselves because of the app’s open source nature.
I feel like this is largely a culture thing on Android. Apollo has made the subscription model work with tons of success on iOS, where paid apps are normalized. For me, I’d happily fund an open source app, but not Reddit itself.