The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark | Many major third-party apps are finally shutting down.
After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps, including Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader.
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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.
Ditto. Went from kinda apathetic to full blown hate after all that muppet's antics.
That is what we need to do, take what is ours, the content itself
There's ways to automatically delete every post and comment you ever made, i forgot the sites name but someone built one
Let me know if you or anyone else remembers the site. I gave a lot of PC/tech support on reddit.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/
This is the one I used. It deletes everything. It also edits all your comments to whatever custom message you want. This means that if reddit attempts to revoke your comments they'll get your custom edit instead of the original content.
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.
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Wefwef is the way.
Feels like I’ve taken Apollo for granted :( RIP
If you’re not using Wefwef yet, give it a try. It’s basically an Apollo clone for Lemmy. Still pretty barebones but the dev is super active!
I found so many bugs. I am too new to lemmy and cant figure out which 'subreddits' to report wefwef issues.
Same. It all happened so fast.
Dude… I was just looking at Reddit on the mobile site and I had no idea how bad and intrusive the ads had gotten. Jesus…
The "he gets us" ad being targeted and spammed at vulnerable groups is sickening. I won't support reddit allowing organizations to prey on people.
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.
The best. Thanks Christian.
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.
the attitude is so fucking weird. why are they forcing us to comply with their garbage? shouldn't the site want users to like the change? or a change to be legitimately built with users in mind?
this new web paradigm is deeply fucked
Pretending to care about your users was a zero interest rate phenomenon
Hmm, that's an interesting way to look at. It does seem to track that as interest rates went up so did enshittification. Too bad the reverse won't be true if rates go back down, all the big players will probably double down on cashing out if they're still around by then.
I am not going back. That's it
100% Reddit is dead to me.
Just waiting to get my data extract from them (this can take up to 30 days) and I will be gone too.
Thanks for reminding me to do this before I delete my 13 year old account!
I had my 9th cakeday on the 29th 🥲 But yeah I'll also delete my 9 ywar old account.
Moved my lemmy app to the place my reddit app used to sit for 12 years.
Lol, I just did the same thing when I found myself clicking my Reddit bookmark by muscle memory instead of Lemmy. The little things.
Same here. Had to make a point of deleting Boost and putting (for now at least) Connect For Lemmy in its place in my app folder. I'm done with Reddit - onwards and upwards with the fediverse!
RIP Sync and all the others
And fuck spez
Can't suspend my account for saying that here, fuckwad
Sync is dead with reddit. It will come back!!!
So excited for Sync for Lemmy!
Sync is dead with reddit. It will come back!!!
I already miss my muscle memory operations through sync :/
Sync shut down right before I went out for the morning. Got back this arvo, sat down, immediately opened the app and had to just stare at a blank screen for a bit to let it sink in. And now I'm here lol.
I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy app, which the Sync creator says he's working on and there is a community for https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Same here.
Although I'm finding that Connect for Lemmy is working well in the interim. Kind of a "we have Sync at home" vibes lol
Haha. That's true!
I've been having some random issues with the apps, now it's mostly wefwef on the browser.
Can't wait to see sync for lemmy
Jerboa is borked for me right now so I'm using connect and I like it. Wefwef was pretty good (especially for a web app) but I think I like using connect more until Jerboa gets fixed or sync comes out.
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!
lol left as well, deleted all submissions and then replaced every single one of my comments with a hardy "fuck /u/spez" before deleting my account. gotta take our content with us on the way out, it's the only thing reddit has to monetize.
I'm about to delete my Lemmy account, because I'm a pessimistic hipster.
Deleting your Lemmy account is conformity. Don't be a sell out. /s
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.
Yeah it's super weird. Either they did want to kill 3rd party apps and not admit it, and thought it would go down better than it did. Might have been okay if they didn't go after the Apollo dev.
Or they really underestimated how much people would pay to use reddit/emotional investment for the 3rd party app devs. And genuinely thought some apps would do it within 1 month.
I guess the former, but like just admit it rather than bullshit people. At least then you would get some respect for honesty
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.
Mine hasn't been working most of the day. That's strange
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
They could have had third party apps and kept the advertisers happy. All they had to do was put ads into the API and kill access for any app that didn't show those ads.
This was about user data, I suspect. Way too many apps request and acquire more permissions and data than is remotely acceptable, but people put up with it for lack of alternatives. Reddit's leadership wanted not just the users' data from using reddit, but all the data they could siphon off from direct access to users' phones.
The very definition of: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/enshittification
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
Awesome! Barely touching is ×still using x reddit, tho. 🤔
I still use Reddit to proselytize for Lemmy 😉
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
Reddit was definitely fun.
Icing on the big fuck you reddit cake
Happy cake day, reddit.
There's mobile apps for Lemmy, Sync is coming, Jeroba works pretty good from what I hear.
Also Connect for Lemmy and Liftoff. Both free on Google Play.
Liftoff is pretty good (former Sync user)
So, RIF is still showing posts, but won't let me log in (i don't think, it logged me out and I never tried to log back in) is that what these other services are doing as well?
Finally! /s
Listing Sync and freaking BaconReader before RIF?
Not that it matters anymore, but wow what a way to spit on the 2nd most popular 3rd party app on the day of its death.
Edit: Sorry, couldn't miss one last opportunity to get Sync's little fanclub riled up. Hello discord 👋