Reddit is killing 3rd party apps. Why? Those 3rd party apps filter out Ads and spam/scams and have good focus on usability. Reddit want only two options: Their shity Website or official app to show you more Ads. This is why the central cloud and forums are evil. More here https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/141pk1t/reddit_is_killing_3rd_party_apps/
@nixCraft word is the option to disable subreddits, may not work for a while. So there may be no protests. There is also talk about demoting mods who join in this denial of service.
The lemmyverse sounds perfect, but it ignores alternatives like kbin etc. It would be better if we didn't end up with the situation we have with Mastodon where people assume Mastodon is the fediverse....
Yeah #reddit as a company has been on a fairly rapid decline as of late, but at least they didn't immediately shutoff #API access and gave a month unlike other companies.
@mcfly Thank goodness people fled to something that's #FOSS and federated this time, and not just another proprietary #Twitter clone that'll have the exact same problem in 10 years.
I remember when people were fleeing from Digg to #Reddit thinking it would solve their problems, and…well, we all know how that turned out.
If Lemmy is not your cup of tea as an alternative to Reddit, maybe try open-source federated Kbin instead
Yes, Reddit is going through its own API pains right now, and of course it is anyway a centralised social network much like Facebook and Twitter. So the discussion around alternatives has been coming up again.
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Y'all know what, I'm probably about to say the quiet part outloud and I don't care. You know how them wheelchair users went up to the whitehouse and was like "Hands off my ADA!"? I mean I could be making it up, my memory is awful. But even if that didn't happen, it shows what I'm on about with this. Y'all know how hard it is for blind people who aren't well connected to get transportation to places? Hell, even buying groceries is hard in a lot of situations. On a bus? Oh no there's a rule where you can only cary on what can comfortably fit in your lap. Uber? Oh hey looke the driver doesn't wanna be held liable of the blind person like falls or something so no ride. So getting a few thousand blind people somewhere will be pretty hard. Yeah there's the yearly convention, but I'm willing to bet a good hundred thousand more joined by Zoom than went to the convention. And the Whitehouse, or Apple, or government offices, they have to see people in their faces to feel something, to change. Like, calls and emails? Those can be ignore, or put onto low ranking call center folks that can only send stuff up the chain or just nothing at all. But you see blind people up in your face, angry and willing to do shit? You gonna fucking listen. And that's why solidarity is so fucking important. Because a lot of us can't be in marches to the #whitehouse, or out there at #WWDC, or writing the latest news about #Reddit. All that. Solidarity is really, really important. And that's why when I see posts by black people, or trans people, I sit here and think "What if that was me?"
💸 Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20 Million Per Year Under New API Pricing
➥ MacRumors
"Apollo developer Christian Selig was today told that Reddit plans to charge $12,000 for 50 million API requests. Last month, Apollo made seven billion requests, which would mean Selig would need to pay $1.7 million per month or $20 million per year to Reddit to keep the app running."
😉 Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation by 41% since 2021 investment
➥ Techcrunch
"Fidelity, the lead investor in Reddit’s most-recent funding round, has slashed the estimated worth of its equity stake in the popular social media platform by 41%, the latest high-profile write-down amid a weakening worldwide economy on public markets."
We all hear a story about #Apollo app for #reddit and Reddit plans to kill it by making API unaffordable. Apple just mentioned this app on stage. Hope this will not be the last time in its history.
So naturally, just like most servives started to copy the #TwitterBlue subscription model, for stupid paid verifications, which failed in similar fashions, i.e., the recent #Gmail fiasco #Reddit has now decided to increase their #API costs and also basically block third-party apps for their services. Just like Twitter.
If only we had a service. Which was free. With API access. Various verification methods. Always-on and free API practices. Multiple apps for many different users and their needs.
Join the blackout on 12th to 14th June on Reddit by rather hanging around here.
🪧 Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
➥ The Verge
"Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access the site’s APIs."
What do we call the Lemmy/Kbin Universe?
The lemmyverse sounds perfect, but it ignores alternatives like kbin etc. It would be better if we didn't end up with the situation we have with Mastodon where people assume Mastodon is the fediverse....