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Asking third-party reddit app devs to consider Lemmy after recent Reddit API changes. (www.reddit.com)
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I've also cross-posted this post on other third-party apps' subs:

EDIT: Forgot to write a bit of an introduction of myself, hello to everyone here, long time redditor and someone who also happens to mod a lot of subs on reddit such as r/electricvehicles, r/trulyunpopularopinion and etc!

Though I love to moderate and contribute to this communities meaningfully, I never liked reddit, as a huge FOSS fan, and these recent API changes are freaking stupid as well, there wasn't a better reason for me to not consider moving to Lemmy. I will be speaking with a lot of other reddit mods in my own mod teams and some other friends, hopefully I can bring some subs/people here.

Speaking of bringing people, please do consider checking out these posts I've linked above, and consider upvoting them if you agree, this situation with third-party apps are a great opportunity for Lemmy, hopefully it reaches to the devs, and even if not all apps make a move, even one would be a win.

Thank you!

EDIT 2: Hey guys! I missed some third party apps on the list above, just updated them, and the new added ones are RIF, Joey, Get Narwhal and RedReader. UPDATE: Added ReddPlanet.

Please do consider visiting those that I just added and upvote them, so hopefully they can reach to respective developers!

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[–] Haunting_Tale_5150@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

It just makes me roll my eyes, they act like it's all so hard to join or leave, when really it isn't. When tumblr had it's nsfw ban, I joined reddit. Now that Tumblr is recovering, I rejoin with a new account. When reddit is having it's api exodus, I join lemmy. All you need is an email and a username, the rest is up to you.

The only real concerns that are in the list are:

  • The wiki (which could just be a simple copy-paste), though I wouldn't like Lemmy communities to be exact copies of the subreddits. There's many gripes I have with certain subs that should be avoided with Lemmy. As for data, if there's information you think is important to keep, share it. Find communities to share that info with, create ones if there isn't one for the certain thing you want to share. Don't just keep it hanging on reddit. As tvtropes says, keep circulating the tapes.

  • Splitting the community could be an issue, but a lot of subreddits simply AREN'T community based anymore. I can honestly only think of maybe three off hand that still feel like a community. One of which is only so due to it's somewhat more active discord server.