Technology

First comment in the Fediverse. Fuck Reddit.

I literally just signed up for lemmy after reading this post on reddit. I’m ready for reddit to crash. Decentralized apps seem like the way to go. It seems super short-sighted on Reddit’s part to be basically extorting all these 3rd party apps that are super popular.

is facebookification a word? I am so sad to see this happen as a long time user of Reddit, been on there for...god, 11 years according to my profile awards. I see a lot of people saying this is the end of Reddit but I have to disagree, it is more like a new age. Reddit will now only be used by people who are fine with getting absolutely fucked with ads and close to nil moderation. I imagine it will be a husk of what it once was - it'll look the same but I'm sure it will just be repost land. It wasn't hard to see this coming, but I can't help but feel a sadness.

Do I need to go outside more? Probably.

RIP

Absolutely unreal. This should seal the fate of Reddit.

Fuck Spez Fuck reddit.

I'm not too surprised that Reddit would go so far as to lie about somebody blackmailing them. This is a disgusting thing to do to someone who's bringing people to your website.

I have over a decade on Reddit across several accounts and if I can't use Sync on Android or Apollo on iOS then I just wont even browse on mobile. They already killed i.reddit and compact, their browser experience is intentionally shit to try and get you to install their app.

If the day ever comes that old.reddit is shut down I will overwrite all of my comments and delete my account

I would love to see a fork of Apollo for Lemmy, call it Artemis. 😀

I think this is the end for reddit maybe after june 30th apollo users will be slowly migrate to official reddit app or another platform. This event will generate massive traffic for lemmy. The great thing about reddit is before the API rules reddit is called as mini internet. Everyone shared most valuable content and mods maintained the communities from spam their work is most valuable thing and thank you for all your work.

I think more people are going to quit Reddit than migrate to anything else. Apollo is such an ingrained experience for iOS users that anything else wouldn’t be worth it.

RIF is closing down too. I'm using Sync for more than 8 years and it has not been yet announced but it will certainly shutdown too 😔

I’ve been a Reddit user for many years. It was a great run but I’m moving here. For now I’m missing quit a few favorite communities but that should improve with time.

Obligatory "f-ck Spez" and their silly little AI training thing

ReddPlanet dev came to the same decision. Gutted tbh. After more than 13 years I'm done for good with that place. Shoutout to all the 3rd party devs. You deserve better, and I hope you find success with any new project you might launch in the future.

My wife uses reddit, and couldn't be bothered to use anything other than the official app. Sadly she's in the majority with this. I'd say somewhere between 5-20% of mobile only/heavy reddit users will end up over here, and that's heavily dependent on whether or not the subreddits that they like come over here too. I see far too much content for the moment just linking back to reddit

Remember when in September 2017, Reddit decided to no longer be open-source? Well it was precisely to prepare for this specific scenario. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and we're finally on step 3.

Instead of closing down it would be cool for 3rd party apps to switch to Lemmy but I know it would be a lot of work.

ah shit. This massively sucks.

It would be cool to see Christian develop a lemmy client, kind of like how Tapbots made Ivory after the Twitter API closed down.

@dylan

It's definitely a shame that reddit is making these changes. The fall of reddit is going to have pretty negative affect for a lot of people.

I'm no fan of corpo platforms—I'd love more widespread adoption of open protocols and software—but I don't want _users_ to get hurt by the loss.

Sad day, I’ve been using Apollo for years 😭

The more I dive the worse it smells. Willing to bet this situation would be less worse if they just came out and said "Alright guys sorry but we're banning 3rd party apps", instead they make more and more lies

Well that seals it. I'm here for good. I'll even commit now that if Lemmy doesn't work out, still not going back.

Makes literally no sense to me that Reddit couldn't afford to provide a price exception to 3rd party apps that have helped grow their community and website over the years. I've been using Reddit Is Fun for almost a decade now, and I'm not switching to their official app.

Companies are getting too comfortable when they have no competition. Really hope a Fediverse alternative will kick off like Mastodon did (ironically I'm placing my bets on kbin even though I use Lemmy. Seems like the simpler alternative that'll be easier to invite people over).

I've used Relay for more than 8 years. /u/DBrady hasn't officially closed it down, but it is clear that it will be closed as well.

@dylan this part is WILD!

It appears spez was caught red handed lying

🫡 Sad to see it happen. Best of luck to the dev(s) in their future endeavours.

I would highly recommend that everyone run a tool like Redact over your reddit accounts. Deprive them of your user contributions if they're going to play this way.

I want Reddit to get what they deserve. Fuck 'em.

I really hope Christian gets through this. Working so hard on an app for years, only to see it get flushed down the toilet because of Reddit's ridiculous pricing and them not budging on it, has to be a nightmare to experience.