Megathread for Reddit News & App Shutdowns
if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that'll come in the morning if so)
Unsure if this is off-topic for this thread so feel free to delete if that's the case.
/r/firefox now looks like this.
I can't help but love when subreddits do this in response to the threat of removing mods if they stay private. I remember there were some that were posting "sexy" pics of John Oliver. iPhone was limited to posting "sexy" pics of Tim Cook. Working with what they have in order to continue their protests. I like itđ
It has malicious compliance written all over it đ
I for one love these new changes to the Firefox Reddit đŚ
oh, the teddit thing looks neat, like a perfect backhand slap. good enough to just see and not interacting. I didn't know how much history on reddit until I run the power delete suite script, it just keeps going. 9 years sure has a lot of stuff on it. XD
Hahahahahaha hahahahahaha
/Wipes tear
RIF no longer showing content for me :( It's over. 6 years of being my most used app on my phone
I never would have guessed when I first installed RIF that some years later I would end up feeling sad as I uninstalled it.
No threads here. Tap to refresh.
I just fired up Apollo for the first time in two weeks to see if things loaded, and it's crashing instantly.
Same here, went dark as I was scrolling. Guess that's it for me on Reddit in any kind of meaningful way.
Same, it's been such a big part of my life. Thought I would have more time with it today :'(
11 years here. One of the first apps I installed on my very first smartphone.
First post! I just want to drop a hint to anyone else coming from Apollo â I just installed wefwef.app and, despite the weird name, it is insanely close to an exact replica. Iâm honestly surprised a PWA can work this well.
Also,
FUCK SPEZ
RISE LEMMY
I'm using wefwef now, coming off of using Reddit Sync, and it's delightfully intuitive. I'm super bummed about reddit imploding, but hey, at least we have a new place.
It's like how every time there's a group chat, it spontaneously spawns a new, smaller group chat "without the annoying people".
Where does one find wefwef? A quick search didn't give me anything obvious, and it's not on the app store
Ah, right â try wefwef.app, and be sure to install to your Home Screen to get the full benefits of the PWA capabilities (check the settings tab, or if on iOS, tap the âshareâ icon in safari and select that option).
Updated my original comment with the link as well.
Its not a native app, basically an alternative web view, that you can add to your homescreen
Yes, using this right now and itâs helping me feel like Iâm still on Reddit. :)
I can't get it to load any comments :(
It seems to have this problem on and off. Couldnât load any comments yesterday, but it seems fine today. I do wish that it wasnât just a copy of Apollo because I keep expecting Apollo quality as I interact with it. Though it is remarkable for a webapp.
They just pushed an update that might fix that for you. According to the release notes â
Fix API failure causing annoying redirect
Maybe that was causing your issueâŚI dk
Nevermind, it seems to be an issue connecting to lemmy.world. The 0.9.1 release notes address this.
It seems to have this problem on and off. Couldnât load any comments yesterday, but it seems fine today. I do wish that it wasnât just a copy of Apollo because I keep expecting Apollo quality as I interact with it. Though it is remarkable for a webapp.
And now RiF is just memories. I hope Beehaw and the Fediverse grow and become something great
Iâve already been removed as a mod. Oh no! AnywayâŚ
More time to scroll through Lemmy now.
Welp, Sync Pro just went dark for me. Guess I'm done with Reddit.
Same, very sad, my most used app now gone. Guess now reddit will finally see how much damage they have done to the site. Bring on sync for lemmy!
"Rate limited" for you too?
If they really do shut off API access I'll go into partial link aggregator withdrawal. My Lemmy instance still isn't upgraded to the latest versions which are compatible with apps, so I don't browse on my phone.
Try using the Progressive Web App (PWA) instead. I'm on iOS and haven't found a good app for Lemmy yet but the PWA has helped me get used to Lemmy on my phone in place of Reddit. You just open the site in your phone's native browser (Safari on iOS, probably Chrome on Android?) and choose "Save to Home Screen". Now it looks like any other app and behaves like it too, even though it's secretly just the web page.
Second the PWA, it's pretty decent.
I think on Android you can do it with any browser that supports it (I do believe Firefox has the support too). On iOS Safari is the only browser anyway, the others are cosmetic and functional improvements, but have to use Webkit for the actual website displaying stuff
Just tossing this out there, Iâm commenting from memmy (iOS) and itâs great. Still beta and incomplete but really nice UI and themes. New features being added literally daily. Feels much more native and usable than the web interface.
Works great with kbin.social
I just use a browser tab. Same as PWA but with refresh buttons etc.
Join the Memmy TestFlight. Weâre getting updates pretty much every day.
Mine isn't either. Lemmy and Thunder still work with it tho
The web interface is pretty good (while we wait for the issues with the latest version to get ironed out). I'm hoping for that arm64 docker image, myself. My instance I'm hosting on my RaspberryPi is incompatible with Jerboa.
Relay appears to be attempting to reduce API calls and stay open.
Edit: I just found this patch to use our own API key if Relay gets taken down.
Why bother honestly
There are three possibilities.
Personally I think the first one is the most likely. It seems naive and bound for failure. But its also the least conspiracy theory and doesn't assume malice
I agree, Iâm OK to let that website die. We really are ready for decentralization and we just need to deal with the growing pains. But it will happen eventually.
My friend mentioned Reddit is Fun is shut down now. Sad day đ
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I didn't really follow the recent "drama" (for lack of a better term), but I'm glad it came about because it created a lot of buzz on hackernews about reddit alternatives which got me to check out the Fediverse (kbin/lemmy), and a few other alternatives. I really like the look and feel of Discuit, but it's inevitable for it to become essentially another digg v4/reddit 2.0 clone because apart from a nice UI and the creator/owner not being a dick, it's still a centralised forum that will limit or censor discussion at the whims of the owner in the end. I don't want that.
@datawraith @alyaza agree about Discuit. I was speaking about it with people and came to same conclusion. "Like people trust companies, I see how more and more companies ditch people and more blatant at that. So all he brings up is, I am reddit 2.0. please come." Not everyone have been burn from company decisions but with it trending so much lately and Shithead mention Lemon sucks as his good example, tells how little this rich guys circle is. So Disquit dev telling that people trust companies?
I've been using bacon reader for 9 years. I keep wanting to feel sad that it's my last day on Reddit* but I really don't. *I'll probably check in sometimes at home as long as I can use old Reddit. But honestly my only time to read it has been during the day during downtime at work. I get home and have much better things to do then sit on Reddit.
Just a test.
Do you double tap to do a line break?
We'll see if this worked
You can also add to spaces at the end of the line for 'just a line break'
like
so
Same here, loved BaconReader, (not sire why it's not mentioned that often)
got the message popup yesterday ;-(
But you are right, might be a good moment to detox a bit
Also old Baconreader user. Really hope it comes to Lemmy. But didn't seem like it.
RIP Sync for reddit đ˘ I hope Sync for Lemmy will be even better!!
Open-source app Slide also stopped working today. Goodbye reddit, hello Lemmy. I'm still getting used to the UI of Connect, but I'm glad there's something to fill the void. May Beehaw grow into something great!
Is there a countdown on when RIF will stop working? Is it based on midnight GMT? EST? PST? CST?
It's dead for me right now. I'll miss her.
RIP
I think I read that it was based on PST, but I don't remember where I saw that and could easily be thinking of something else. Sorry I haven't got anything definite.
I haven't seen a specific time, but today will be the last day :(
Such a great app, I will miss it.
Lol set up a countdown website like its New Year's Eve
Ceased functioning 0000 BST :(
I get having megathreads, but currently kbin doesn't care whether a post on Lemmy is pinned, so megathreads make it harder here to follow news and discussions on the topic.
this is unfortunate but we kind of have to prioritize our users first and a lot of people are annoyed about all the reddit posts that clearly don't need to be their own thread
Yes, I understand :) Just thought it'd be nice to increase awareness of the problem.
I just wanted to say thank you for this, hopefully it helps to clean up the clutter from this community.
I like my fediverse like my house... cluttered with the same content spread everywhere
Baconreader is now turned off :(
It felt really weird putting Jerboa in the home screen slot that opened after I uninstalled baconreader.
Friendship ended with REDDIT
Now
FEDIVERSE
is my
best friend
Apollo really held on for dear life. Worked until sometime this afternoon.
I tried Reddit on the browser but it just doesnât work like I want it to on my phone. There are many people who donât know a different version of Reddit than their terrible app and site. It will continue but not with me.
RIP Apollo. Was truly a ride.
Currently using wefwef and Memmy to browse lemmy via mobile. Wefwef feels closest to Apollo but Memmy has a better interface.
Also subbed to Winston on Reddit, the dev is actively responding to suggestions and aiming to release an app as close as possible like Apollo for browsing reddit. Then of course thereâs also Narwhal.
It's actually pretty amazing how close Wefwef is to Apollo
I feel the same way now that I did when I quit World of Warcraft, and started playing Final Fantasy XIV. My favourite app is gone, destroyed by greed.
I'm hoping Lemmy can do for me what Final Fantasy did.
Whew, finally finished running before the API expires I guess. It does take a long time to delete 9 years worth of post/comments, and I am a "light" user.
Relay is still working for me, including NSFW content:
Other people have said the same, but Apollo was my most used App on my phone.
I find that during the day, I mainly browse Reddit on my phone, as I can't stand not having RES on my work laptop. I'll have to see what sort of adjustments I'll have to make, as I was looking at using both Reddit (via browser on my laptop) and Lemmy (via wefwef on my phone) whilst the lemmy community gains a bit more traction.
Good Wired article on this (in case you are somehow out-of-the-loop): https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-api-changes-ai-labor/
Excellent write-up on the API changes, protest, and response as a whole from Jay Peters over at The Verge, whose been covering this more intimately than anyone else I've seen. (Basically a good tl;dr if you want to explain what happened to others.)
My preferred app (RedReader) was allowed to stay,apparently for free, but I still deleted my account. A shame, it was a great app!
Thatâs crazy, I wonder how they managed to stay - and for free!
It was granted an exception due to its accessibility features.
Reddit missed their own deadline for enabling rate limits and now they are weeks away. đ¤Śââď¸
Hi Devs,
Over the last few months, weâve shared updates on our Data API Terms and Developer Terms. Shortly, we will begin enforcing the previously announced, updated API rate limits. Rate limits will go into effect for all apps with usage above the free limit in the coming weeks, and some changes will be noticeable over the next 24 hours.
As we have shared, this will not impact non-commercial bots operating within free rate limits or moderator tools.
Free API access rates are as follows:
100 queries per minute per OAuth client id if you are using OAuth authentication
10 queries per minute if you are not using OAuth authentication
The vast majority of third-party apps and bots fall into the free usage category and should not see any disruptions. Our free rates account for bursts in usage.
For apps that exceed these limits, we have exempted select clients (for example, accessibility-focused apps like RedReader, Luna, and Dystopia), mod bots, and mod tools. If your bot or tool is affected unexpectedly, please reach out here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/14nbw6g/updated_rate_limits_going_into_effect_over_the/
Yesterday I used pds to delete everything individually and then just deleted the account as a whole
đż This is entertainment.