• erin@lemmy.sidh.bzh
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    1 year ago

    What happened (I’m not on reddit anymore)? What spez has done since 1st July?

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        1 year ago

        If it’s just that, it means I’m up to date with spez bullshit. I was afraid I missed the nail in the coffin… ><

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          The only thing you missed is that the devs actually couldn’t keep their own deadline for the api change so until now the 3rd party apps still worked.

          Actually people can custom patch the apps with their own api key and they still work. This is how I stay up to date with these news.

          Atmosphere on Reddit became quite bizarre nowadays. Users are angry against the mods who kept the subs restricted/private instead of the company itself. The stupidity is insane.

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            The stupidity is insane.

            Many of those people don’t really care because they don’t think it will affect them or don’t really understand what that whole thing means. All they care about is being able to scroll.

            There was a poll about the future with the protest of a Subreddit I am part of and many voted for staying open with the reasoning “it hurts the community”.

            While I would agree with the Argument that being private on a tech-oriented Subreddit is bad because all of the accumulated knowledge will be inaccessible so troubleshooting will not work or be as good. But then you could just be restricted and have both, keeping the protest going but not locking out help to common troubleshooting.

            All they see now is that they are inconvenienced by the whole thing and they don’t like it without understanding that many others will have a much worse impact and the future state of the Subreddits could be much worse or take longer to moderate impacting everyone.

            But this is not something they can see or understand.

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            Yup, at the end of the day I feel like most of the casual reddit community does not give 2 shits about how bad this whole ordeal is and just want their daily fix of content. I’m guessing it’s mostly new users too, since they’re already used to the new app.

            It sucks but hopefully sites like Lemmy get up to pace

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            Man when I first realised that Relay for Reddit is still working, I legit thought that Reddit’s strategy was to just scare people into shutting down third party apps without wasting a dime on actually upgrading their API lol

            Meanwhile half the subs have gone into protest mode in all sorts of ways… My favorite is r/madlads who gave all users mod privileges, in true madlads fashion

            Edit: can you link to a resource explaining the custom patching thing? Sounds interesting, might try it out

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    I mean that’s the nature for most online platforms. It’s just that the newer ones are made for profit, so they last longer than would fan made communities of forums or irc of eld. One dies we go some place else.

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      Even platforms like usenet news, and the old Web 1.0 type forums, even though they weren’t really run for profit, they got overrun by spam (usenet), or faded through user attrition (forums)