- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.world
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- reddit@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/532327
I had a feeling they’ll put something like this, so I went in every now and then to see how infinity will react. I really loved the app, devs did an amazing job
The announcement is missing mentioning that any content tagged aw NSFW will not be accessible from their app. This was one of the biggest points that made the API changes impracticable for app devs, charging a very significant amount of money for a reduced experience .
The double tragedy here is how so many of the porn subreddits haven’t really moved at all and are still on Reddit.
That’s absolutely the most insane part, they’re the most affected, but also the most likely to just ignore it.
They’re likely not real users but posting bots for companies. Hopefully real users will migrate them to Lemmy
Honestly, I was talking more about the mods. I only know of about three NSFW subreddits that have actually migrated, my own included. There are plenty that have popped up under the same name on Lemmy instances, sure, but for the most part, the mod team from reddit isn’t involved and are just happily chugging along over there.
That is assuming most people who access those subs even use the third party apps.
I’m just slowly moving over what I find important to Lemmy and manually scrambling and deleting old posts. I think this is the only solution now - they can’t take my content and remove my methods of creating and managing it.
It’ll take ~6 months, but I think by then I’ll have a ripped up 14+ years of Reddit.
if the API price was different I’d understand going subscription based, but given the Reddit requests, going this path looks like naive business choice, or maybe the devs simply do not want to accept the reality lol
Same thing with Relay for Reddit. I loved the app, even had a pro license. But I just don’t love them or Reddit enough to pay a subscription fee.
Lol first time I see my post getting reposted, I feel like a celeb
This is my first time seeing a same day repost on lemmy. I’m surprised it took this long, lol
I’ve seen developers of some other clients think that they wouldn’t be able to work even with a paid subscription. Are there other examples apart from Infinity of clients that will remain available with a subscription?
Given one of the quotes for API usage (something like $20m in a year) I can’t see how any app would survive unless Reddit drastically dropped that number.
Missed opportunity. These third-party apps could have updated on 1 July to support Lemmy only. Instead, they wish to continue the abusive relationship with Reddit while making believe that it’s the only option.
Re-writing the app to support a different site isn’t a small undertaking, so I don’t blame devs if that isn’t on their immediate roadmap.
Some devs, such as those of Sync and RIF have already said apps for other sites are in development, too. Sync for Lemmy and RIF for Tildes.
Then there are new apps entirely that will arrive built for the new sites. Jerboa is great already, even with the extremely short time it’s had to be developed in.
Yeah, I use Jerboa, it’s been great.
For those developers who remain committed to Reddit only, competing against the house isn’t viable, you can’t win. The rules will change again.