To kick off June, the world of 3rd party reddit apps was put on notice – prepare to pay by the end of the month or go away, they were essentially told. And well, it’s now June 30 and very few appear willing to pay. The end has come for some of the best reddit apps. For those catching up on this...

Obligatory fuck /u/spez. 🖕

  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    722·
    1 year ago

    We actually have the best case scenario here in lemmy! Those people that yelled at mods for protesting and generally don’t give a shit how awful spez is and how toxic reddit has become, don’t give a shit about the api changes so they will stay on reddit!

    Meanwhile the rest of us, even if it’s a smaller number migrate here and foster a community of discussion, respect and not being a douchebag!

    Even the apps that are popping up for lemmy, yes they are buggy, yes servers are slow, but not no-one really complaines because it’s a worthy growing process.

    Also, and this is by far the most important thing, this decentralized structure is absolutely vital to saving the internet.

    We’ve all gotten funneled into like 5 major corporate sites, and we’ve let little sites die because of it. I hope with this trend we can reverse this and switch more to a donation model.

    I hope everyone on here realizes that eventually we’ll have to pay for lemmy and severs. We need to fund it, not for profit, but sustainability.

    Fuck the ad model and fuck infinite growth for shareholders. Let’s just make something nice we all pitch in a few bucks for and enjoy.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      To your point about how all the spez lovers stayed there, I just had a disagreement with someone here. We brought up our points like adults and I agreed I missed something in the original post and that they are right. I rarely if ever got to see that on Reddit in the last few years.

      • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        It’s just too many people on reddit. All it takes is one asshole to change the tone of the conversation and everyone piles on and things turn to shit.

        Also hiding the downvote count just fostered negativity.

    • RxBrad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      I don’t love spez, but I also wasn’t a fan of mods vandalizing existing subreddits (questionably at the request of their own community). Information the mods didn’t necessarily have any hand in creating being wiped from public access – not cool…

      This has all just added Google to the list of places online that now suck a whole lot more than they even a few months ago.

      • Dunestorm @vlemmy.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, money is the only language leaches like Spez understand. So for that reason, fuck Reddit and Spez all together.

    • mahomz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’s been about 5 years since I’ve really engaged at all with most of Reddit, the API drama and renewed push to populate the alternatives seems to have achieved exactly what you describe. I even think the small barrier to entry for registering an account in the Fediverse is filtering people.

      Many of us have been longing for something like this to happen.

    • tal@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      checks

      Infinity is also functioning, despite throwing up a message saying that it will stop functioning on July 1, and that the developer is going to need more time to transition it to a subscription model, so who knows. I don’t have a subscription, and I haven’t modified it with a custom API key or anything.

      It might be that Reddit decided that they would not cut off apps that said that they would transition to subscriptions after all.

      • UnhappyCamper@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Same with Boost, still working and wasn’t supposed to after July 1st. There was to be no subscription for that app either, so it should have died for sure. So strange.

    • BobbyTables@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yes, and I honestly don’t get it? Even NSFW is still available in Relay. What are they doing differently?

      • Pellotto@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        It’s going subscription based, it’s free right now while the dev figures out the pricing model. And it sounds like he had been given an extension from Reddit in order to figure this all out

      • GeekFTW@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        I saw someone in another thread say that the NSFW change wasn’t due to go through until the 5th so they could be waiting to do it all together.

        Reddit also may have gotten their bluff called with all the bad press, the devaluation. etc.

    • newIdentityEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They actually just disabled OAUTH. So it still kinda works. You just can’t perform anything that requires an account

      Which basically confirms its only about killing 3rd party apps

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    7·
    1 year ago

    I uninstalled RIF and don’t think I’ve looked at reddit since. I’d generally do most of my reddit browsing via RIF and longer posts I might pull up a browser on my PC to type on a keyboard.

    But without the initial browsing on RIF, I’ve not felt the need to open it up at all on desktop.