1y ago

3rd party app for Reddit, Boost, is still functioning well after July 1st

r/BoostForReddit: A place for discussion, requests and bug reports of the Android Reddit app Boost for Reddit

Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can't charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn't made it inoperable.

Why is Boost still working?

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Are you willing to test. If Boost is working it's a matter of any day it will shut off. Boost Dev is already making a lemmy app. Reddit is gonna die and hard!
- I can't wait for the Lemmy Boost app. Wish kbin had an API so there'd be apps for it as well though.
  
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  @Jcb2016 Good news… at least two kbin apps are in the works. Follow @dansup for their Kbam app, and @hariette for their Artemis app. Artemis sounds like it’ll be heavily Apollo inspired, whereas Kbam is doing something a bit different.
  https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110644503485927580
  
  Thanks for the heads up!
  
  I swear I have a kbin app called /kbin that got advertised to me here. For Android.
  
  Yes. That's a PWA (Progressive Web App) - it is like a real app but functions inside a Web browser. It's pretty good.
  
  This is a fancy bookmark from wherever your browser is. I have the same "app" and so do people who use Firefox on iOS. What you're looking at is essentially the same thing as kbin on the mobile internet.
  The apps in development will have other QoL features that will be more similar to Apollo (but I hope more similar to Infinity for Android).
  
  Just an FYI, you don’t have to have Firefox on iOS to have the web app. It works with standard Safari as well.
  
  The API will come. It's still very early days for the kbin project. It's, uh, kind of alpha software.
  
  They’re working on the kbin api stuff right now. It’sa priority. Also, check out Artemis magazine on kbin
- reddit is going to continue on just fine lmfao, unreal how confused some people are
  
  Reddit will be fine in the short term sure, but anyone who actually gave enough of a shit to put in the effort needed for it to work well have left or stated that they will no longer do anything more than the bare minimum. Reddit will still be around for a while, but it will never be the same place it was, and eventually will just become irrelevant as it's overrun with trolls and scammers. I give it 3 - 5 more years before it disappears without fanfare and no one will care.
  
  Exactly my thoughts - it's going to be a slow decline. Probably the first thing that will happen is that mods will drift away and the quality of subs will decline. Any replacement mods may be good but are also just as likely to drift away after a month or two.
  The site will slowly attract more and more spammers and scammers when they wake up to this fact... Whether it actually disappears I don't know but it will become irrelevant by becoming more bland and corporate in an attempt to chase money. It'll end up being more like Tumblr or something I reckon, something that exists but only some people actually use.
  
  It'll be fine in the same way Facebook is fine. It'll have users, and it'll maybe even make money. But Facebook is filled with negativity, regurgitated content, aggressive monetisation and an ever-increasing lack of personal connection.
  I logged into Facebook for something last week for the first time in a long time. 14 out of the first 20 posts in my feed - so 70% - were "suggestions" or "promotions". It wasn't stuff posted by people I know or pages I've liked, and it wasn't even stuff that people I know or pages I've liked had interacted with. It was adverts and shitty, lowest-common-denominator content that I had no interest in.
  Facebook isn't dead but it might as well be as far as I'm concerned. It's no longer enjoyable, interesting or useful to me. And Reddit is going down that same path.
  
  Facebook is nowhere near as dead as you think it is. It is still the best place for local groups and many niche hobbyist groups. I really don't want reddit to be another version of that, 1 crappy social site is enough. Also you're missing a key differentiating factor: facebook has actual paid content moderators.
  I don't think reddit will die, at least not right away (remember, digg shut down finally in 2018).
  Best case scenario is they hemorrhage users, fail ipo, and then join the fediverse. I say this because joining will create a bridge for new users to come here.
  Worst case scenario is they become like twitter. which is possible.
  My money is on them trying to sell to Microsoft or Google for ai training, and keeping their api private.
  
  You're making a great point about Facebook. It's still insanely popular among older and more rural Americans. I guess these are populations that would be more isolated without it and still see the value in participating. One example: I have a 21 year old niece who is on it 24/7, but then again she is a hour's drive from the nearest Walmart and and her parents. Three hundred miles from her bestie. She's two-thousand-ish miles away from me. She has my number, but she prefers Messenger to text.
  It's also good for community groups, online garage sales, in memoriam pages, and the like. Some businesses like to use it instead of having a proper website, probably due to zero cost of hosting and familiarity of use.
  Reddit never fit naturally with any of those, but I'm sure it will find a niche of users in the same way.
  I'm sure there are other dynamics worldwide where Facebook might also be a valuable tool. These are just the first few examples I can think of in the US.
  
  I've found it has the weirdest active communities. The best poison control first line is through a facebook group.
  It's great for 'boomer knowledge'. Geo trackers, foraging, mushroom growing, 80's japanese guitars, tree ID, etc.
  Marketplace has taken away some of the sketchiness of Craigslist.
  Facebook and Meta and Zucc are evil, but facebook is still a useful tool
  
  I’m not contributing much anymore with Apollo gone. The official mobile app doesn’t pull me in like Apollo did. I may be in the minority.
  
  If it's a minority, it's a vocal and loud one. I've never heard anything good about the official app.
  
  While Reddit might be fine it also could go down the same path as Yahoo, AIM, or Twitter. Either dying a slow death or ending up a shell of what it once was.
  Hell even Slashdot still limps along, a shell of what it what it was before everyone moved from it to Reddit. For large ranges of "fine" I'm sure Reddit will fall into some category for some time at least.

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