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.

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.

RIP Apollo you were a good client.

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 am not going back. That's it

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

RIP Sync and all the others

And fuck spez

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

I already miss my muscle memory operations through sync :/

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!

There were a bunch of different ways Reddit could have handled the API changes (and the “profitability” standpoint). They seemed to choose exactly the wrong move.

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

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

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

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

Apollo was the best. RIP.

Bah gawd it's a slaughter

Yup, came here after RiF started throwing weird errors. I thought I still had an hour, damnit! #RIP

Icing on the big fuck you reddit cake

Reddit was definitely fun.

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