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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The reluctance of redditors to move to lemmy always amazes me.

Not surprisingly, there's a lot of posts in a lot of subs about the recently announced changes. In every post the same pattern is repeated ad-nauseum:

  • "i hate reddit, it sucks here, I've always wanted to leave, I'm never coming back once this happens"
  • "maybe we should move the sub to lemmy so we won't have this problem in future?"
  • "but what about all our data, the wiki & post history and such"
  • "but there's no users on lemmy"
  • "but that would split the community!"

This is the case even in the subs I would have thought would be really keen to jump ship, like /r/selfhosted

I think this type of approach is the right idea though, a better ecosystem can only be good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"but there's no users on lemmy"

It's definitely a chicken and the egg situation.

I've been lurking here the past few days when I saw lemmy as a reddit alternative. I decided to sign up today as lurking isn't doing this place any favors. Hopefully more people will sign up, and the momentum will build and continue.

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

I've been on lemmy for about a year, and this is the first time I've seen lemmy this consistently active.

It actually reminds me of reddit in the earlier years :')

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

Its funny to me that those of us posting viable alternatives in those threads get drowned out by doomerism (there's nothing we can do!!!). There are alternatives out there to reddit, and they're already better experiences.

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

It's really baffling. Especially because there are some solid but really small communities that would have a fairly easy time migrating but are still not even considering doing so because of the small userbase over here. These communities don't even benefit from the bigger userbase on reddit because the discussions are solely between the users that are subbed to the subreddits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy is just the latest in a very long line of potential reddit successors. Historically, you can't move a subreddit to a different platform because redditors are users of reddit, not users of your particular subreddit.

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

undefined> “but there’s no users on lemmy”

I mean that's a reasonable point. The amount of users is always important for a platform adaptation. But I see a good chance for Lemmy if/when Reddit removes/restricts all porn subs.. IF there's a place for it in Lemmy.

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

I suspect there will be specific servers/communities that support that content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've yet to see one. It's one of the handful of things that don't exist yet on Lemmy that I'd actually miss from reddit. There's a few speciality subs that don't have any parallels on here but there's nothing stopping that content though. Porn on the other hand seems to be universally banned on every Lemmy instance I've ever seen. I guess moderating that content is just too much of a headache for most people.

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

I think it's exactly that no one wants the headache of moderating that. But I'm certain someone will spin up an instance that allows it as soon as Reddit bans it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm here because of you. Loving your idea, and hoping they go for it. Because what the hell, Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Reddit banned him! They're freaking out so much.

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

Welcome! I hope you have a good time here man, if you got any questions don't hesitate to shoot em up :)

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

I only wonder what's the best way to advertise c/wish and why it or [email protected] isn't automatically made into a link :p

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

I know it's unmaintained, but I really love the UI for "Slide for Reddit" and hope the dev for that picks it back up and maps the data inputs to Lemmy. Keep the UI exactly the same (maybe add tiny icons to the left of sublemmy names but that's it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would love an app just like Sync that would work for Lemmy. Jerboa looks fairly close and quite similar just based on my very limited usage.

edit: clarification

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

I really hope ljdawson takes a look at this platform. However, in the last few years they have not been posting as many updates and I would not blame them for not starting a new project.

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

Thanks for this 💜

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

@Archit this is a really great start! I upvoted all your posts over there...

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

Message received. Hello from reddit!

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

I love using Relay, and if it ever adopts Lemmy support then I'd be using it for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's true, infinity for reddit is finite, it should be infinity for infinite websites ^/_\^

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

Let's get a hackathon going. Maybe it's possible to have a project which allows these apps to work with lemmy. I created a sub on reddit for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/apihackathon/

But maybe that's not the right spot - happy for someone to create a similar community here too.

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

This is a genius idea. Imagine all app developers get together and once reddit stops working they ALL from their app's interfaces recommend switching to a lemmy instance, and mention that lemmy will be supported on their app in near future.

This could be a massive blow to reddit since the traffic these apps contribute to is huge.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm gonna like all of those linked reddit posts now!