It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut off his API-Access mid talks without informing him
Another sign Reddit was never interested in having third party apps at all. They want all mobile traffic through their own app.
Which would be fine at all, you know. It’s their platform and their servers, and they can do what they want.
Except for the fact that the official app is several orders of magnitude more primitive, inefficient and uncomfortable to use. Even more so for Android than for iOS
Also for the fact that they lie through their teeth and can’t even give the decency of honest business.
Why the fuck would we trust these idiots with our data/hard work?
Which is why people should scrub their comments. A lot of people are holding on to “The good times.” with their posts and comments. It doesn’t matter if reddit can technically undo the work, I’m still going to check and make sure it stays gone. Without that content, reddit is nothing.
To be honest, I respect that position, but I don’t hold enough contempt against them to do that, and on the other hand I do value Reddit as an archive of online knowledge and debate. I can just leave it if I don’t want it in my life anymore. I would like any comments I made on specific topics I’m knowledgeable about to be accessible and used as reference in the future.
You can request your data in a simple form submission and the ndownload it, all in .csv and other text formats. The request takes about a week.
Afterwards, use Violentmonkey or another script manager to overwrite and delete all your comments.
I’ve already done it on an account that was over a decade old, no regrets.
But that’s not the point. I’m not saying I’m super important, but I believe I have helped several people with technical or academic questions on Reddit before, and anyone looking that up could access my comments and they might help other people in the future.
I don’t hate Reddit as a corporation enough to erase what might be useful to someone else in the future, and they can profit off of it if they want, since I didn’t make those comments with my profit in mind anyway.
I understand wanting to erase your data from Reddit, and I realize it’s also a responsible decision, but I personally don’t like the idea of wiping clean one of the greatest hubs of information in the entire internet, even if I disagree with their corporate practices.
Which tool did you use to delete your comments? I used Power Delete Suite but was only able to delete 1700 out of the 4000 total comments I wrote with my account.
I used reddit-shreddit . Only ones it won’t get is from subs that have been disabled.
Except that they were very friendly to third-party app developers for 15 years and are now claiming they didn’t know third-party apps existed.
Who gives that platform value? Who fills it with content for them to profit off of? Who moderates it for them, for free?
Users.
And they should be able to interact with the site they built up however the hell they please.
Dystopia for Reddit seems like it has the best staying power since it serves an accessibility need that the bloated official app can’t. I’m down to that and Old Reddit. If they kill off both, I’m probably done.
Exactly. They are trying to monetize everyone they can before their IPO. They don’t admit it, but we all know the truth.
Ah yes another prime example of them working with those who were willing to work with them. That’s what they said, right?
what, are you calling them a liar? speddit would never lie!
I sure as fuck will. As the genuine spez, that likes molestation. It’s true, spez likes it. I am qualified to say I fucking will.
Unfortunate but predictable. Reddit and u/spez have decided that third-party apps are going to die, and nothing is going to stop them. The “talks” they were offering to interested devs were always just a show, as this clearly demonstrates.
How fucking shitty. It just proves that everything spez said about negotiating with developers in good faith was bullshit.
You’re right but the leaked conversations between Reddit and RIF pretty much confirmed that for us months ago. Spez had zero intention of allowing 3rd party apps to exist. Next on the chopping block, old.reddit.com
They’ll let old.reddit sit around for a little while longer because of the push back they got from API changes. But I suspect by this time next year it’ll be gone too and we’ll get another wave leaving reddit.
I really hope he’s able to migrate his app to Lemmy and continue to make a living. I would happily pay again.
Truly. Joey was so damn good. Honestly I would’ve paid 20 bucks monthly to keep using it.
I hope so too. I also paid for the original app. I signed up for updates on future apps from him, so it seems he’s thinking of something.
My prediction: Reddit is moving toward a YouTube-esque format.
They are going to monetize by allowing creators to make money from their content. This is why they’re getting rid of awards. Of course, they’ll take a cut which is probably why they’re going toward this model.
They have also been moving toward more detailed, identifiable profiles as well.
They’re trying to make the new social media.
This will just turn the site into a massive shill fest full of people pandering and not to mention huge scale botting. AIs will be churning shite out.
Real quality will go elsewhere.
This will just turn the site into a massive shill fest full of people pandering
Ummm…
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Seems like you can’t trust a guy who edits user comments behind the scenes and lies about being extorted.
I tried all the reddit apps I got aware of and Joey was just miles ahead of the pack.
There have been so many customization settings, custom themes, well-impoemented navigation features like skipping posts/comments with the volume keys of the phone etc.
I’m currently using 8 apps for Lemmy and none of them seems even close (yes, I know these are mostly alpha releases).
I really hope the joey dev creates a Lemmy client.
It’s wild that to me that the app dev made money from essentially being a web scrapper. No one should be makingoney off us posting memes lol 😂
That goes to show it was never about gettimg paid to use the AI, it was just to shut down all 3rd party apps. Even those who wnated to cooperate
Fuck u/spez
mlmym.org acts like oldreddit, someone linked it further down in the comments, and it’s changed my world.
Dude this is kinda life changing. So is this a separate lemmy instance? Or what exactly is this?
Looks like it’s just a passthrough website that formats the lemmy content.
Wow, that’s incredible. I’ve been using a tampermonkey script to sort of emulate the feel of old.reddit, but this is essentially one-to-one. Thanks.
I’ve got a Stylish plugin to expand the width of the site. I just wish they would agree on how to fix the problem.
So sad. I’m here because of that. Hopefully this community grows fast.
Wow, this is very cool, we’re literally seeing waves of migration. I’m here because Sync for reddit went down and seeing spez’s rat face made me sick of using Reddit. Sync for Lemmy ftw.
I’m here because Joey was shut down, I refuse to get the reddit app.
I don’t wanna be mean to the guy who effectively just lost his job but like, come on bro. Reddit wasn’t exactly hiding their negative intentions, outright lies, and lack of respect.
Joey was my go to reddit app, and I’m really sad to read about the developer stressing out. They seemed pretty cool, so it sucks that reddit is doing this to them.
it’s sad Joey was a great app.
