Technology

Given all the antics by the company and the despicable behavior by spez and his henchmen, my position on reddit has gone from "I'll use it much less now that my mobile app is gone and I only have desktop access" to "I will go out of my way to avoid providing value to the company even if it inconveniences me".

I just spent the better part of 5 hours yesterday manually deleting all my top comments from reddit. They can revoke edits made by pushshift, but they won't be able to figure out which manual edits to revoke. I used to give out technical advice on reddit and I used to get messages thanking me for posts I made years ago. Now all of those posts are gone.

I left today when they shut down Apollo. I’ll never return. Fuck spez. I hope Reddit becomes the next Digg. Greed literally ruins everything.

RIP Apollo you were a good client.

9 year user of Sync here. Was so sad to see it go, and can't wait for the Lemmy version! I'm using liftoff right now, and it's very nice.

We all know how shitty it was for Reddit to close the API, but had anyone else noticed how God -awful the Google search results are now? What the fuck with the "restricted/open in app" bullshit?!?!

Reddit can go suck a donkey

Feels like I’ve taken Apollo for granted :( RIP

It's been good, but it's time to move on and move over. Good to meet you guys.

In consideration of how Reddit has been treating its users, "flipping the switch" on the API was, to me, like locking a door I had no intention to open again in the first place.

I already miss my muscle memory operations through sync :/

I am not going back. That's it

Confirmed Slide no longer works either and unistalled it from my phone. So long reddit, it was fun (but utimately misguided of me to invest time/attention towards it).

Hello Lemmy, you hot new thing!

Moved my lemmy app to the place my reddit app used to sit for 12 years.

I was sad to see Boost go, but it was a great reminder to delete my account. Stoked for Boost for Lemmy!

On the bright side I’ve been using Lemmy and barely touching Reddit. Thought I’d would be way more of a adjustment than it actually was

RIP Sync and all the others

And fuck spez

Can't suspend my account for saying that here, fuckwad

Apollo was the best. RIP.

Hmm my baconreader seems to still be loading, I wonder Reddit hit the switch early by mistake and reverted.

So, RIF is still showing posts, but won't let me log in (i don't think, it logged me out and I never tried to log back in) is that what these other services are doing as well?

There's mobile apps for Lemmy, Sync is coming, Jeroba works pretty good from what I hear.

you'd think it'd be a fucking advantage for a site to have robust 3rd party apps to serve the needs of more users

furthermore in fact, you'd think the primary goal of a discussion site would be to better the experience for the user, not the advertiser. the site exists to facilitate a user's posts, not an advertiser's schemes and whims

Icing on the big fuck you reddit cake

Listing Sync and freaking BaconReader before RIF?

Not that it matters anymore, but wow what a way to spit on the 2nd most popular 3rd party app on the day of its death.

Edit: Sorry, couldn't miss one last opportunity to get Sync's little fanclub riled up. Hello discord 👋