Yep, and this is what caused me to sign up for Lemmy! Hello!
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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nooo :(
another reason to stop using reddit
I really, really hope a good amount of developers can convert their apps to work with the Lemmy API. Would be a shame to see all the wonderful work across the 3rd party apps go the way of the dodo :(
this is funny because lemmy admin actually hopes reddit to reverse the decision. lemmy server isn't ready even by just only adding 500k user
suffering from succses
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🫡 Sad to see it happen. Best of luck to the dev(s) in their future endeavours.
My wife uses reddit, and couldn't be bothered to use anything other than the official app. Sadly she's in the majority with this. I'd say somewhere between 5-20% of mobile only/heavy reddit users will end up over here, and that's heavily dependent on whether or not the subreddits that they like come over here too. I see far too much content for the moment just linking back to reddit
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I have over a decade on Reddit across several accounts and if I can't use Sync on Android or Apollo on iOS then I just wont even browse on mobile. They already killed i.reddit and compact, their browser experience is intentionally shit to try and get you to install their app.
If the day ever comes that old.reddit is shut down I will overwrite all of my comments and delete my account
Sync announced a shutdown as well.
I'm pissed, I've been using Sync for a decade.
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I literally just signed up for lemmy after reading this post on reddit. I’m ready for reddit to crash. Decentralized apps seem like the way to go. It seems super short-sighted on Reddit’s part to be basically extorting all these 3rd party apps that are super popular.
I'm one of those that nuked my Reddit account too... Was a Boost user for many, many years. Tens of thousands of contributions in the way of posts and comments and this move by them was the straw that broke the camel. The place is a shell of what it was in the early days sadly. Year by year it's seemingly declined.
I'm done with it and moving on to pastures a new :)
So far, I'm really impressed with Lemmy !
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I want Reddit to get what they deserve. Fuck 'em.
I really hope Christian gets through this. Working so hard on an app for years, only to see it get flushed down the toilet because of Reddit's ridiculous pricing and them not budging on it, has to be a nightmare to experience.
I'm not too surprised that Reddit would go so far as to lie about somebody blackmailing them. This is a disgusting thing to do to someone who's bringing people to your website.
Remember when in September 2017, Reddit decided to no longer be open-source? Well it was precisely to prepare for this specific scenario. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and we're finally on step 3.
Reddit is probably acting this way to emulate Elon Musk in hopes he will buy it for billions of dollars.
RIF is closing down too. I'm using Sync for more than 8 years and it has not been yet announced but it will certainly shutdown too 😔
The Sync dev has announced that it will be shutting done too.
I think this is the end for reddit maybe after june 30th apollo users will be slowly migrate to official reddit app or another platform. This event will generate massive traffic for lemmy. The great thing about reddit is before the API rules reddit is called as mini internet. Everyone shared most valuable content and mods maintained the communities from spam their work is most valuable thing and thank you for all your work.
Especially given that I'd venture a guess that most reddit mods and power users use third party apps
This makes me so sad, Christian is amazing. I bought a lifetime subscription for Pixel Pals. I'm sure he's going to do many more great things.