This is legit the reason why I literally just signed up on here.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2023
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Grab yourself Jebora if you're on Android for a good app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jerboa/
I've also found just the mobile web interface to be highly usable compared to reddit's.
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I hope we see a mass migration. Fuck Reddit for doing this. I'm here now as well.
Well, welcome aboard!
same - can't tell if it's placebo but ever since i read they were going public, i've noticed it just get shittier and shittier. inexcusably wrong to do
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Same.. And I will try convince others to do the same
You and me, bro/sis
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
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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.
Same, we've been getting a lot. I welcome every single one of reddit's bad decisions :)
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Hopefully it leads to a growing lemmy user base and more contributers 🙂
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If you can, tell people about lemmy in those other threads. People often just don't know what the alternatives are.
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.
Thanks! I built a tool also to download some of your reddit history: https://github.com/dessalines/reddit-history , if you'd like to get it out locally.
All I ever do on reddit is shitpost and say absurd bullshit to throw off ai learning as much as possible.
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😮💨 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.
On another note, I'm trying to switch to Mastodon over Twitter and the experience has been rather pleasant.
Mastodon is incredibly pleasant so far in terms of community. I would highly recommend it.
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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!
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@dessalines An an avid Apollo user, this is really bad news. But if it pushes some of its users towards the Fediverse, then it's not a total loss.
@dessalines Wow, my reply using a Mastodon web client ( https://elk.zone/ ) actually gets picked up by the Lemmy server!
If Apollo were to be rewritten as a Lemmy / ActivityPub client, it could inter-operate with all those new Mastodon clients too...
That would be something - all of the major reddit clients pivot to bring Lemmy or other fediverse clients.
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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.
all to have their work essentially go in the trash at reddit’s whims.
Sure the project may die but the knowledge remains. Software is accumulated knowledge. It can always be studied as long as the source code is available.
their work essentially go in the trash
They learned a lot in the process probably, that is the most important for them after all. But relying on API is risky, so always go HTML scrapping. The frontends are super useful for finding information already there without accessing the actual website. Always use Lemmy here for everything else.
damn Apollo was the only decent app to access that trash site. good thing i don't go there anymore, evil evil place
Honestly many of the 3rd party apps are good, like Boost, Sync, Relay, RiF, Infinity etc
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I always preferred narwhal over Apollo, but the apps were ‘far’ from being the only reason to leave Reddit.
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
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HA HA HA BYE FELICIA
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.
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So sad !!! :(
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