https://www.droid-life.com/2023/06/30/goodbye-good-reddit-apps/
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. 🖕
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
They honestly deserve each other
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.
I'm a mod for a city subreddit, so I've been checking up on it, but I have a feeling many of its users are going to end up here, and once that happens, I'm pretty sure I'll be as done with Reddit as I am with Digg or Fark.
I checked the official app but it’s awful. So many adds that have no clear visual cues it’s an ad, so you start reading it and realize halfway it’s just an ad. It makes you so pissed you just don’t want to continue browsing.
Yes, and I honestly don't get it? Even NSFW is still available in Relay. What are they doing differently?
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.
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
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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.
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.
@The_Batman @fne8w2ah I think they'd announced it would be going subscription only at some point.