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Teddit Is Shutting Down
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Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36725903
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#23I don't understand why, but the Android app RIF / Reddit is fun still works when not logged in. It was supposed to be shut down.
Someone mentioned that it's probably using the JSON API.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/150ozmc/twitter_has_l...
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if you pay the new fees, no app is allowed to show "NSFW" content, which is now unavailable in the API. I'm tired of tech companies being run by puritans.
It's the credit card companies. Showing users nudity for free is fine. Making them pay for it means you're selling porn and the payment processors ban you. Reddit wants to make users pay for viewing content. They can't get away with that if the content is NSFW.
Reddits income is via ads, not cc payments
This is the advertisers
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#26I don't understand why, but the Android app RIF / Reddit is fun still works when not logged in. It was supposed to be shut down.
it still works when logged in too. There are APK patchers (revanced) that will allow you to inject your private API dev key to use in the app too.
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#27Some Reddit related apps were fine. Like apps to assist moderators and keep communities healthy, or apps that made it easier to use Reddit.
Some others were more questionable, like the ones that automatically scraped Reddit and archived all posts and comments so that there was always a way to retrieve a deleted post or comment.
Or the ones that scraped Reddit to build datasets for machine learning purposes.
In the end, the golden law of common sense stands: jerks make it hard to have things that are built on an expectation of good faith.
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#29> Lemmy is the New Reddit I hope so, but we need a winning instance first. When you search for Lemmy right now you're sent to a page that begins with "Join a Server... Run a Server". That kind of first experience will never replace Reddit. Lemmy.world seemed to be winning the SEO battles in my Google search. Is that a good one? Edit: Sorry for changing my entire post; I had incomplete information about Lemmy at the t…
What do we need a "winning" instance for? In a federated world what does that even mean? What is this (online? HN?) cultural obsession with winner-take-all? The whole point of federation is that you don't need winner-take-all which is in fact unhealthy.
If you have a community on Reddit which you want to migrate you just need to find a stable instance with admin policies you consider reasonable. If it's a big community with really active moderators you might even want to start your own instance. If Lemmy needs anything it's probably a managed hosting provider like masto.host that could make it easy for large communities to run their own servers.
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#30Seeing all Reddit apps shut down, I can't help but wonder — what is it that made everyone play by the rules? What happened to the adversarial interoperability spirit? What forces people to use their own API keys instead of pretending to be one of the official apps?
I can understand the iOS apps, the App Store hegemony does kinda force this and there were cases of Apple removing apps that interact with an online service without that service's permission. But web, desktop and Android apps have no one to force them to comply with these kinds of rules, yet these are also shutting down.
It wasn't always like this. 15 years ago, when ICQ was huge, everything with a screen, keyboard, a network interface, and a way to run arbitrary code had an unofficial ICQ client for it. Most people haven't ever seen the official clients. That's just one example. What happened?