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Unofficial Reddit API (github.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one.

Its early days, but I would like to have a discussion here about it since my post was blocked on reddit(of course).

Let me know what you think of the project, if you have any input, let me know.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just to add my thoughts, it was not closing free API that made me stop using Reddit. It was their management response / actions / not providing a viable API thus killing 3rd party apps. If management would have changed I would probably go back.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

How they treated apollo dev was fucking disgusting.

Spez ist ein Hurensohn.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If I could access Reddit ad free via my own 3rd party app with no restrictions based on some monthly or yearly fee, I probably would pay that.
Reddit has issues which the fediverse solves. The fediverse has issues that Reddit solves.
Now that I am here tho, I wouldn't go back

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the straw that broke the camels back. They been fucking users over for years before they did the API change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup, I had been looking for alternatives for years, but none seemed "ready." When the API change was announced, my definition of "ready" suddenly changed and I came to Lemmy. It's good enough, but I'll bail as soon as something better comes along.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I been quite cozy on Lemmy, it would really have to go down hill for me to find a replacement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I think it's fine, but the emotional downvotes really bother me (i.e. people seem to prefer consensus over quality of discuss, just look at any post criticizing Biden). That's not different from Reddit, it's just not better.

But there's plenty of good discussion, so I'm happy for the time being. But I'm not really loyal to lemmy and don't see much point in the fediverse/activitypub, so the only thing holding me here is the lack of a better alternative.