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After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps, including Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader.

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[–] c2h6@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Given all the antics by the company and the despicable behavior by spez and his henchmen, my position on reddit has gone from "I'll use it much less now that my mobile app is gone and I only have desktop access" to "I will go out of my way to avoid providing value to the company even if it inconveniences me".

I just spent the better part of 5 hours yesterday manually deleting all my top comments from reddit. They can revoke edits made by pushshift, but they won't be able to figure out which manual edits to revoke. I used to give out technical advice on reddit and I used to get messages thanking me for posts I made years ago. Now all of those posts are gone.

[–] Elliott@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ditto. Went from kinda apathetic to full blown hate after all that muppet's antics.

[–] alrighthosanna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's ways to automatically delete every post and comment you ever made, i forgot the sites name but someone built one

[–] arkayy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me know if you or anyone else remembers the site. I gave a lot of PC/tech support on reddit.

[–] RedEagle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/

This is the one I used. It deletes everything. It also edits all your comments to whatever custom message you want. This means that if reddit attempts to revoke your comments they'll get your custom edit instead of the original content.

[–] SmallAlmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That is what we need to do, take what is ours, the content itself

[–] Gyella@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I left today when they shut down Apollo. I’ll never return. Fuck spez. I hope Reddit becomes the next Digg. Greed literally ruins everything.

[–] xts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is the way.

[–] PaulyChumpus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Feels like I’ve taken Apollo for granted :( RIP

[–] Wednesday@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you’re not using Wefwef yet, give it a try. It’s basically an Apollo clone for Lemmy. Still pretty barebones but the dev is super active!

[–] Rengoku@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found so many bugs. I am too new to lemmy and cant figure out which 'subreddits' to report wefwef issues.

[–] matt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's at !wefwef@lemmy.world, but ideally it makes the most sense to post them on the GitHub.

[–] HollowNotion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude… I was just looking at Reddit on the mobile site and I had no idea how bad and intrusive the ads had gotten. Jesus…

[–] takeyourzync@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The "he gets us" ad being targeted and spammed at vulnerable groups is sickening. I won't support reddit allowing organizations to prey on people.

Same. It all happened so fast.

[–] pikachus_ghost_uncle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RIP Apollo you were a good client.

[–] itsme@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The best. Thanks Christian.

[–] Skanky@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

9 year user of Sync here. Was so sad to see it go, and can't wait for the Lemmy version! I'm using liftoff right now, and it's very nice.

We all know how shitty it was for Reddit to close the API, but had anyone else noticed how God -awful the Google search results are now? What the fuck with the "restricted/open in app" bullshit?!?!

Reddit can go suck a donkey

[–] the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's been good, but it's time to move on and move over. Good to meet you guys.

[–] Caminsky@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not going back. That's it

[–] luffyuk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

100% Reddit is dead to me.

[–] circle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already miss my muscle memory operations through sync :/

[–] grumpypandabear@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync shut down right before I went out for the morning. Got back this arvo, sat down, immediately opened the app and had to just stare at a blank screen for a bit to let it sink in. And now I'm here lol.

[–] hunting_psilons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy app, which the Sync creator says he's working on and there is a community for https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In consideration of how Reddit has been treating its users, "flipping the switch" on the API was, to me, like locking a door I had no intention to open again in the first place.

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

the attitude is so fucking weird. why are they forcing us to comply with their garbage? shouldn't the site want users to like the change? or a change to be legitimately built with users in mind?

this new web paradigm is deeply fucked

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Confirmed Slide no longer works either and unistalled it from my phone. So long reddit, it was fun (but utimately misguided of me to invest time/attention towards it).

Hello Lemmy, you hot new thing!

[–] xts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

lol left as well, deleted all submissions and then replaced every single one of my comments with a hardy "fuck /u/spez" before deleting my account. gotta take our content with us on the way out, it's the only thing reddit has to monetize.

[–] PussyXdestroyer69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm about to delete my Lemmy account, because I'm a pessimistic hipster.

[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Left yesterday as well, deleted Apollo off my phone and then immediately deleted my Reddit account.

I have been a user since the beginning almost and am sad to see its decline - especially so rapidly in the past few years.

Looking forward to the new community.

[–] Datas_Cat_Spot@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moved my lemmy app to the place my reddit app used to sit for 12 years.

[–] HollowNotion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, I just did the same thing when I found myself clicking my Reddit bookmark by muscle memory instead of Lemmy. The little things.

[–] Tosti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

On the bright side I’ve been using Lemmy and barely touching Reddit. Thought I’d would be way more of a adjustment than it actually was

[–] Rose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Finally! /s

[–] JarJarJacob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was sad to see Boost go, but it was a great reminder to delete my account. Stoked for Boost for Lemmy!

[–] books@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So, RIF is still showing posts, but won't let me log in (i don't think, it logged me out and I never tried to log back in) is that what these other services are doing as well?

[–] oryx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

RIP Sync and all the others

And fuck spez

Can't suspend my account for saying that here, fuckwad

[–] _number8_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you'd think it'd be a fucking advantage for a site to have robust 3rd party apps to serve the needs of more users

furthermore in fact, you'd think the primary goal of a discussion site would be to better the experience for the user, not the advertiser. the site exists to facilitate a user's posts, not an advertiser's schemes and whims

[–] LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They could have had third party apps and kept the advertisers happy. All they had to do was put ads into the API and kill access for any app that didn't show those ads.

This was about user data, I suspect. Way too many apps request and acquire more permissions and data than is remotely acceptable, but people put up with it for lack of alternatives. Reddit's leadership wanted not just the users' data from using reddit, but all the data they could siphon off from direct access to users' phones.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's mobile apps for Lemmy, Sync is coming, Jeroba works pretty good from what I hear.

[–] MusketeerX@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also Connect for Lemmy and Liftoff. Both free on Google Play.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Listing Sync and freaking BaconReader before RIF?

Not that it matters anymore, but wow what a way to spit on the 2nd most popular 3rd party app on the day of its death.

Edit: Sorry, couldn't miss one last opportunity to get Sync's little fanclub riled up. Hello discord 👋