The Threads API will let third-party apps authenticate, publish, and fetch content. In the future, the API will also provide reply moderation and insights.

Narwhal, a popular third-party Reddit app, will still hang around despite the new API pricing. Reddit users have been mourning the shutdowns of some of its third-party applications because of the ...

While Reddit hasn’t officially disclosed its API pricing, Christian Selig, Apollo’s sole developer, says he would have to pay $20 million to keep his app going “as-is” under the new policies.

However, if there is a third-party app ecosystem in place, developers can ship features users are looking for. What’s more, Meta and Mosseri have talked about integrating Threads with the fediverse.

Reddit’s new paid API, announced last month, has been a death knell to many third-party apps due to the intense costs associated with the API, as well as the changes the API imposed.