Thousands of subreddits are still dark.
Let it go, overwrite your content and leave reddit.
What website is it that does that?
This is the one I’ve seen most.
He also said it was built by the users. Well, guess what spez, the users want third party apps.
He’s a liar, there is no way the would have let 3rd party apps use their API for over a decade if they “didn’t mean for 3rd party apps…”
We’re happy to have API clients, crawlers, scrapers, and browser extensions, but they have to obey some rules:
Emphasis mine. From the official, archived documentation here:
Spez is a one-trick-pony. He can only power through protests by ignoring them and brushing them off. Until now it kinda worked, until it doesn’t.
Reddit gave the ‘fuck you’ price for third party apps, then the guy in charge lied through his teeth about convrosations that has happened.
Deleted my reddit account. Twitter lost my patronage. Soo too will reddit. I’m not putting up with this noise.
Don’t forget they also planned on blocking NSFW and other posts as well from any 3rd parties.
It’s all about the money, baby.
Wow, the reddit ceo is a dick! Also, someone needs to tell him that one reason we use 3rd party apps is because his official reddit app is an ugly piece of crap that most people are only using because they didn’t realize there were choices.
I asked him if he felt that Apollo, rif for Reddit, and Sync, which all plan to shut down as a result of the pricing changes, don’t add value to Reddit. “Not as much as they take,” he says. “No way. They need to pay for this."
I don’t think anyone has ever said they want the API to remain free, they just want a fairer price model and/or more time to allow existing year-long contracts to be valid. Why the sudden urgency to push out this stupidly high pricing model? The only time-critical event I can think of is Spez’s precious IPO, and he’s doing a great job at showing potential investors that everything’s under control
/s ( <– are we allowed to use that here?)
The sarcasm tag has been a thing for a long time, used in various forums before reddit was a thing.
@okcool Math is not my greatest skill but “Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site.” Are they so bad that they can’t cover the cost of 3% usage? Why is he still CEO?
Then what does it have a publicly accessible API for?
Damn, bro really just essentially said “get fucked”. He also in essence admitted in the interview that the intention was to kill off certain third party apps, saying they provide little to no value to the platform.
I really think the root problem here is that we’re building communities on private platforms owned by for profit corporations. The intention is to make money off your interactions, and to an extent how you have them. Instead of providing you with a service, you become the service. A commodity to be sold to advertisers and whatever nonsense they can get you to look at on their platforms.
This is why ActivityPub is important. You (mostly) don’t see this kind of fuck shit happening with SMTP, instead they just couple services in with your email (O365, G Suite). Communicating and connecting with other people shouldn’t be a business venture, and I hope social media continues to become increasingly unprofitable for these companies.
saying they provide little to no value to the platform.
Time will tell. I will no longer contribute without RiF, so the question isn’t whether RiF provides value to Reddit but whether I do.
My Karma says I do.
From this article:
While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open
Meanwhile from https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/15/reddit-threatens-to-remove-subreddit-moderators/
If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.
You think he posted this in r/AITA? Cause yeah you are.
If Reddit can handle being data mined by OpenAI, I’m sure it can handle a few dozen apps.
If it wasn’t for old Reddit and RES I’d be off there today or if platforms like this one get a good user base of quality people. This Fediverse thing is really neat but I think most people will not want to invest the time to learn how to use it. Today is my first day here and I still have a lot of questions for example I know that Mastadon is part of the Fediverse. Does that mean I can use that service due to having a Kbin account or do I have to sign up with one of their servers?
From what I understand, andi might be wrong because this is just what I’ve picked up from my few days on kbin, it’s more like you can read and respond to things on other sites, but only after you tell it to look for it, first. Like, you can copy a link to a kbin community into Mastodon, then tell your Mastodon account to follow out. It will then pop into your Mastodon home feed, and you can reply like you would a post on Mastodon.
But you can’t actually make a new post that goes to Mastodon from kbin - you’d need your own account on a Mastodon server to do that. Same way, I think you wanted to post a new post to kbin or Lenny, you couldn’t do it FROM Mastodon. You’d need to do it from a kbin or lemmy account.
I have the same question. I have seen toots on Mastodon that make it sound like you can integrate them, but I have not found a way how. I’m banking on apps that are being developed to address this and make it clear and obvious.
Kbin is a weird implementation. I think anything you post here is accessible by someone with a Mastodon account, but it wouldn’t show up for them the way we see it here. It would just look like random posts like in Twitter. I haven’t used kbin enough to even try, but theoretically you could subscribe to a Mastodon user and see their posts from here. Probably in the microblog tab.
