this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Reddit Was Fun

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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023

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[–] eezer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think maybe RIF gets the main data from reddit via http, which is free. All the other functions such as logging in, commenting, hiding threads, etc use the API which doesn't work.

It's like RIF is accessing reddit in read only guest mode via free http.