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Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by creesch »

jorams wrote: post #49
azalemeth wrote: post #6

Geddit still works and it's a great app (it can read posts labelled nsfw without an account). The other working one I know of is RedReader, which Reddit have left unbroken due to its advanced accessibility features for disabled readers (but it cannot access nsfw things -- you get a message saying to use the website). My shared IP has been network blocked by Reddit and anonymous browsing is disabled. I also see about…

A weird aspect of the reddit API crackdown is that they never actually shut down unauthenticated access to the API. rif is fun also still works (or worked last time I started it a month or two ago), it's just read-only. The JSON endpoints Geddit uses are the reddit API, and it's wide open, so in no way is it "bypassing API restrictions".

Not entirely, depending on what you want from those endpoints. A lot of the information and features of new reddit are not accessible through those json endpoints as they never have been updated. They also have a much lower ratelimit restriction when logged out.

Also, they are part of the API much of which is actually restricted behind authorization.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by stiltzkin »

pbronez wrote: post #152
rglullis wrote: post #86

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance…

I would really love for a Lemmy constellation to reproduce the peak Reddit experience. So far the activity isn’t there, but I’m trying to show up and be part of the solution.

Its the most active out there of alternatives, like forums with reddit style using Voyager or Sync for Lemmy. not going back

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by stiltzkin »

I am glad decentralized alternatives similar to Mastodon exist like Lemmy, and even better with third-party clients like Voyager or Sync. It will take some time for people to get used to it but we need a better alternative to centralized companies that go to the enshittification route.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bitcharmer »

conradfr wrote: post #91
mubu wrote: post #12

Reddit was my favorite website growing up. I'd discover new interesting subs, read random posts and comments. The frontpage was somewhat interesting too, but now it feels like a bot fest and propaganda machine. I still use Reddit but way less than I used to before, and I no longer use it for fun but just to read niche tech subs. I refuse to use the official mobile app. I've always used Baconreader and then Relay on A…

The current anti-Trump content is off the chart. I know it's the elections but for (at least) non-Americans it's not that interesting. Actually the genuine content (and votes) seems to be a minority now? Reddit and X are both very bad, where is the non-video fun these days?

I'm from UK and it annoys me too but I can't really blame American redditors for being so engaged. Trump is an existential threat to peace and prosperity so I'll just wait it out.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bitcharmer »

rglullis wrote: post #86

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance…

Does this address the problem of power-tripping mods?

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by bitcharmer »

efdee wrote: post #128
mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check out lemmy. Pick an instance: can start with https://lemmy.world or host your own. It's where everybody flocked to. It's decent, has decent content, decent users. If you don't like the mods/censorship you can host your own or go choose a new instance. content will be the same, mods will be different and what they mod will be different

"Pick an instance" is where you lose me already. Same for Mastodon and similar services. "Mods will be different and what they mod will be different" sounds like hell to me. Not saying it's bad for everyone, just my personal experience. It chases me away.

Not sure if we're using the same Reddit but I'm sure as hell some subs would benefit from purging the mod team.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by rglullis »

bitcharmer wrote: post #176
rglullis wrote: post #86

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance…

Does this address the problem of power-tripping mods?

I'll be honest with you: I have been having more trouble finding mods than with the mods themselves. Also, I've always stayed away from the controversial/political subreddits, so I never experienced much of "power tripping" mods.

The one thing that I have noticed is that I have been reaching to quite a good number of mods on Reddit to see if they would be interested in migrating their communities, but the absolute majority of them seem to really act like "landed Gentry", they complain about Reddit, but are downright apathetic to any type of change. They keep saying "being a mod is not fun/thankless/source of abuse", yet they refuse to let go of the position.

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by rglullis »

remram wrote: post #166
rglullis wrote: post #86

Looks like it's time for me to plug my fediverser [0] project. It can help people migrate away from Reddit by letting people sign up to a Lemmy instance [1] with their Reddit credentials and automatically subscribe them to the corresponding Lemmy alternative. The alternatives are crowdsourced. There is a "flagship" deployment at https://fediverser.network but if you want to fork it, you just need to run your instance…

The problem with Lemmy is that subreddits ("communities") are tied to a specific instance. So basically every instance has its own separate c/linux, c/funny, c/technology, c/anime, etc. This makes it really hard to use.

This is absolutely not true. As long as your instance is federating properly, you can follow communities regardless of where they are rooted.

If your problem is in discovering the "canonical" community in case there are duplicates, then I'd invite you to take a look at https://fediverser.network

Re: Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

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Post by immibis »

subsection1h wrote: post #120
badsectoracula wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe this is a pattern common to most all group-oriented social media Channel operator drama was a major thing with IRC back when it was popular (sometimes ending to like channel splits or even whole netsplits if the people involved were related to the server operators, bot/flood wars, etc), so yeah, there isn't anything specific to Reddit about it. I wasn't part of it but i am pretty sure you'd see the same patte…

> despite the romantization, i somehow doubt that Usenet was all roses before the "Eternal September" Usenet was the best discussion platform I've ever used. People who posted questions to comp.lang.c without first reading K&R were commonly killfiled. People who posted questions to the comp.infosystems.www.authoring newsgroups without first reading relevant W3C specs were commonly killfiled. It was awesome. Can anyon…

So, in other words, people were banned about as aggressively as they are on Reddit, by a cabal about as small as on Reddit, but they didn't even know they were banned and this is somehow considered a positive thing.
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