personal guess is that they’re trying to continue to tempt people over to the official app. given that rif has a lot of power users, they’re probably hoping that they’ll give in when they want to interact with content

or idk could just be a total bug

he did mention working on an app for Tildes, so a Lemmy version is possible. probably a bit of a harder port bc of the defederated nature

hey watch it I’m oscillating here

for me, it’s far more about it being recurring than paying itself. I pay for software and media all the time. I just don’t like having to pay over and over when i’m likely only occasionally using these services