Some users wonder if the dev will be charged for having it still up, others argue Reddit can’t charge him without having signed a contract. Everyone is confused as to why the API change hasn’t made it inoperable.

Why is Boost still working?

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    1 year ago

    The thing is that it really is no longer about 3rd party apps working or not, rather, the level of disrespect displayed from Reddit towards us, their userbase. That’s why I’m not going back.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Relay user here and it’ll continue to function but…

      1. Fuck spez
      2. I don’t care to support reddit anymore
      3. Reddit’s content for my feed is already turning to garbage. I’m already finding kbin and lemmy better.

      Good riddins.

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        1 year ago

        I was a RedReader user for quite a while (as in years). While being a bit spartan, I found it to be the best Reddit app for my preferences. Period.

        But indeed, nowadays, there is actual (great) content on Lemmy and Kbin, and I am willing to get to it. Not much time left for Reddit. Sorry, spez, fuck you!

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        1 year ago

        Exactly this. There is now actual conversarion and I’m finding interesting content again.

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          1 year ago

          I’m struggling to find as much interesting content as I did on Reddit. BUT I am much more easily finding pleasant conversations. And that I think is more important.

          I’m posting more here than I did on Reddit because I want to be the change I want! Also I’m still learning to navigate this place too. I like it though.

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            1 year ago

            The bots posted most of the interesting content in Reddit, and it’s unhealthy to have a constant stream of “interesting” content to browse through. For the time being, this seems much more organic content, and there is actually a bottom to hit in terms of content which makes me want to do something besides endlessly scroll.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Even if spez rolled everything back, I’m not going back.

      All trust in Reddit is now destroyed because of Spez.

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        1 year ago

        His name is Steve Huffman, using Spez means he gets to avoid a lot of the public criticism through google searches etc.

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          1 year ago

          After the whole Brock turner the rapist crusade (deserved) I’ve been sitting here scratching my head why spez wasn’t named and shamed with his real name by the same group.

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        1 year ago

        Fact is even if Reddit rolled back the changes it’d be the classic “let’s see how far we can push our user base then we’ll roll that back to acceptable levels while slowly pushing those limits through later updates” strategy

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      1 year ago

      The only thing I’ll be giving Reddit is my traffic, more than happy to lurk the comment but I definitely won’t be posting, commenting, upvoting/downloading or helping admins by reporting spam and rule violations. None of that effort anymore

      • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        The only thing I’ll be giving Reddit is my traffic,

        Just to bear in mimd that traffic is the metric that they use when selling to advertisers. Not criticising you, just pointing it out.

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    1 year ago

    When the API shut off early, Apollo dev u/iamthatis (@ChristianSelig) revoked his token so I cannot see any of this; but I’m wondering if reddit isn’t pulling a silent reversal of this to stem the bleeding of users and content. There is a lot of useful stuff that has been deleted. The AMA staff resigning and all the stuff migrating to fedi. No matter how much f-u/spez tries to shout “This is fine”; the building is still burning all around him.

    Bet they left turned access back on.

  • demvoter@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The r/blind mods said RedReader stopped working for them what a total clusterfuck to have the key accessible app not work while others are.