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Asking third-party reddit app devs to consider Lemmy after recent Reddit API changes. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Archit@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I've also cross-posted this post on other third-party apps' subs:

EDIT: Forgot to write a bit of an introduction of myself, hello to everyone here, long time redditor and someone who also happens to mod a lot of subs on reddit such as r/electricvehicles, r/trulyunpopularopinion and etc!

Though I love to moderate and contribute to this communities meaningfully, I never liked reddit, as a huge FOSS fan, and these recent API changes are freaking stupid as well, there wasn't a better reason for me to not consider moving to Lemmy. I will be speaking with a lot of other reddit mods in my own mod teams and some other friends, hopefully I can bring some subs/people here.

Speaking of bringing people, please do consider checking out these posts I've linked above, and consider upvoting them if you agree, this situation with third-party apps are a great opportunity for Lemmy, hopefully it reaches to the devs, and even if not all apps make a move, even one would be a win.

Thank you!

EDIT 2: Hey guys! I missed some third party apps on the list above, just updated them, and the new added ones are RIF, Joey, Get Narwhal and RedReader. UPDATE: Added ReddPlanet.

Please do consider visiting those that I just added and upvote them, so hopefully they can reach to respective developers!

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

The thing about most of these apps is that they are actually proprietary closed source and have advertisements to fund development/make money. I dont quite know how they could be convinced to develop an app for a platform that (I think) explicitly does not allow ads. I haven't really used any of these except baconreader years ago so I'm really not sure how these apps are licensed.

However I hope some of them see the light of FOSS even on mobile platforms and decide to contribute to jerboa or even start a new Lemmy app.

[–] YetAnotherYeti@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RedReader is FOSS and has been my favorite Reddit app experience for several years.

The dev has already expressed an interest in possibly refocusing on Lemmy, too.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a bit of an off-topic given the reason why you've linked that Reddit post, but I'm analysing a few things that the RR dev said and I've noticed something:

The decision is controversial even within Reddit Inc., and whoever is taking the shots is not explaining it fully even to the people interacting with the third party devs.

This hints that there's something really shady going on, like external intervention - but from whom?

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Likely Project Managers, who are above the day-to-day developers. PMs take any product and squeeze the life out of it.

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, that explains it. A "middle caste" wouldn't bother explaining its decisions to the "grunts", even if the "grunts" would be better informed on the consequences of the decisions being taken.

This will backfire badly for Reddit - I predict that content creators and moderators will be specially affected by killing the third party apps. The platform will see a short-term increase of revenue, followed by a crash, as if they were killing and butchering a milk cow.

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