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Asking third-party reddit app devs to consider Lemmy after recent Reddit API changes. (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Archit@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably very difficult as reddit is easily a decade ahead of Lemmy.

It'd probably make more sense for the apps to adopt a plugin system whereby "fourth-party" developers can create add-ons for rif to access Lemmy, or bacon-reader to access mastodon, or reddplanet to access Facebook or Imgur.

This takes a lot of the load off the main third-party devs, and give the end-users a choice of using their favorite app with their service of choice, while keeping the apps themselves streamlined.