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Reddit mods are organizing blackouts to protest against API changes (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The blackout must be accompanied from a viable alternative easily presented. I just learned about lemmy and I’m trying to see if I can have a place here. I don’t plan on leaving Reddit forever but you never know, and this api fiasco has at least shown me alternatives I never knew existed.

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

Lemmy is good, it's still rough around the edges but still useable, its not bad at all, the influx of people overload the servers tho, but it will certainly improve, and the current app (Jerboa for Android) is not as good as the popular Reddit clients for the moment, but it's definitely better than the Reddit official app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I kind of hope redreader either switches to lemmy or helps improve Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

/u/whupazz has RedReader connecting to Lemmy via a api translation gateway he is building: https://imgur.com/a/IF5HYGz

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Looks promising, i hope more clients could work with this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've seen that the redreader dev considers it.