Once 3rd party apps are gone I refuse to use Reddit other than through old.Reddit which is probably next on the chopping block
Once old Reddit goes I am gone for good. On the plus side I will get a lot more free time back
this post was submitted on 31 May 2023
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Suggestion / request for people leaving Reddit: shred your content before deleting your account. Don't leave it in the platform, otherwise it'll just become more profits for the greedy fucks.
You can mass delete your comments in a safe way through Power Delete.
All I ever do on reddit is shitpost and say absurd bullshit to throw off ai learning as much as possible.
Can we normalise adding our 'subscribed to' subs, into our profiles. Helps newcomers, like myself, discover more and more subs.
Maybe only the moderated ones show up... hmm.. dunno
In the past hour I've gotten like 10 applications to join my server and many of them have mentioned reddit's new api pricing as a reason why.
😮💨 I guess I'm not too surprised given what's been going on. Sad to see, but not surprising.
I do wonder how much Reddit will push until it has its Digg moment.
I use Now for Reddit because the interface of the official reddit app sucks, along with way too many ads. Now that reddit is going in this direction, I decided to check Lemmy out.
So far, I like what I see. It's not perfect but it's a good start!
Welcome to the hoard, friend
Will using a VPN get you banned here? Reddit unfortunately didn’t like privacy conscious users.
I'm curious what this does to libreddit and teddit. Teddit has said as of a month ago they'll go to HTML scraping. Libreddit I think is still waiting to see. But then there is the question of why reward that ecosystem by staying in it? Unfortunately (at least for replacing Twitter and Reddit) as we saw with Twitter and Mastodon I don't see a fediverse site gaining dominance over Reddit, mostly due to the fediverse's very nature of decentralization. So it would be nice to have open source alternatives through the above services.
I sympathize with those libreddit and teddit devs, because they've probably spent hundreds of hours building and maintaining those front ends, all to have their work essentially go in the trash at reddit's whims. But you're right, these are the dangers of rewarding that ecosystem, and building things for centralized services.
No more teddit?
Teddit might be scraping the public site, so it would be okay. But any apps that use the API will have to have the developer pay thousands of dollars to keep API access. Its the first step before closing off the API entirely like twitter did.
Teddit and similar apps actually use the "anonymous" API, so once this API change comes in, those apps are basically dead without rewrites. Some ideas coming up are full page scraping (would require a lot of new coding and new issues like rate limits and etc), RSS scraping (would not be as complete information wise).
Those projects are great, and its sad that its ultimately up to the whims of some evil company to waste the hundreds of hours they spent building those apps.
Yeah, I'm often thankful to people building these frontends, because ultimately a lot of human information is in those corporate silos and accessing them via a frontend is better than directly.
But at the same time, I would never build such a frontend myself, for the reason you mentioned.
All it takes, is a bunch of profiteering dickwad investors, to make your efforts go poof.