That’s my thought at least. Donating to all actors involved would be best, but it’s easy to give the frontend developer all the love, because the work that’s being done behind is less tangible and harder to really see.
Honestly. This isn’t some centralized platform. Donating at least some of the profits to the people making the app possible seems fitting. While I don’t agree with the API pricing of Reddit, I think it’s fitting that it should cost something at least, if not only to cover wage for the people working on the API
That the entire ecosystem is dependent on donations. If this new social media thing is going to work out, we need to divide our donations to all actors involved: developers, instance admins, and thirdparty app developers. It’s easy to forget the people behind it