as the title says, all of these frontends are dead now, which means that its impossible to view any of the datat that exists on these sites if we dont own an account

is that it? should we just quit using these sites or what?

  • jinarched@lemm.eeEnglish
    138·
    1 year ago

    We don’t need reddit, reddit needs us. Just move on and be done with the platform. Just create new habits with Lemmy and reddit should slowly fade away from your mind. If we give alternatives some time, I’m sure great content will emerge and crazy shit like the three days no poop challenge will happen more over time.

    I am personally very optimistic.

    • Evoke3626@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      30·
      1 year ago

      Yeah unironically this. Mental outlaw did a good video on this subject recently, about Reddit, and he spoke about Chad web scrapers

  • Deft@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    50·
    1 year ago

    should’ve stopped a long time ago. I’ve been off everything but reddit for years and now I’m here.

    we need to respond to things fucking us over quicker. Blizzard, the public transit system in America, Reddit, Twitter, Blizzard, the United States.

    we give these cunts too much wiggle room

    • domsch@feddit.deEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      With things like Blizzard it’s “easy”. I don’t NEED Diablo 4. I’d like it, but i’m not going to get it out of principle. But Reddit is different. I don’t need it as a social media platform or to post myself, but for me, a huge portion of relevant online search results are from reddit. I pretty much run into tech and non-tech issues on a daily basis that are only documented or solved by a years old reddit post. And i’m pretty sad to see that go. Not the social part of reddit, but having so much condensed knowledge in a single place.

      And while lemmy is nice it isn’t an alternative until i can move instances and subscribe to communities without having a pending status for weeks. You also can’t search online for lemmy because of motörhead and because every instance names itself.

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I would argue reddit shouldn’t have been used for tech stuff and troubleshooting as much as it was. Neither should discord for that matter.

        For this purpose wikis and old-school forums worked well. I hope we go more back to that.

    • Ataraxia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I also just quit youtube. Don’t use it much so now I’m down to streaming services that won’t spam me or are actually worth paying for. There’s nothing on YouTube I’d pay to watch. Sorry viva la dirt league, not even you. If they had their own streaming service maybe!

      • domsch@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        So, which are worth paying for? Netflix hasn’t done a good show for me in 2 or 3 years. Prime Videos Interface, search and selection sucks, Paramount has basically only Star Trek for me. Disney plus comes pretty close for me. I love Star Wars and Marvel, and with a child in the house, they have something for everyone. But i’d argue Disney is a morally worse company than google or reddit.

      • azuth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        They don’t use the API, they appear as web browsers and download the actual reddit webpages and extract the posts and comments from that.

        Which is certainly more inefficient and stressing reddit’s servers more than using the API.

  • Ataraxia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    Because I don’t want to feed your addiction I will not let you know which 3rd party apps will work because FUCK SPEZ nobody should ever go back lol.

  • Rik@laguna.chatEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Teddit doesn’t hold any data. It’s “data” was reddit. It’s developers think that when you use the free key for 60 requests per second, that it will probably be enough.

    Libreddit is trying to use the private Reddit API . Which is currently being used by the official Reddit app.

    Running Teddit using a free key seems fairly usable, as long as you are self hosting an instance. Libreddits’s approach tries to bring back the old situation

    Projects will deviate and find ways to be useful again.

    • amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Yes; I highly doubt any of these projects are truly “dead”, they just need to figure out the best ways to scrape these services.

    • remus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Libreddit is trying to use the private Reddit API . Which is currently being used by the official Reddit app.

      How is this possible? Doesn’t Reddit restrict their private API behind some sort of key/token?

      • Rik@laguna.chatEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I have no idea, they probably found a way to simulate the mobile app during the authentication fase.

  • muffin@reddthat.comEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    If I want to still be able to look at the works of my favorite artists, photographers and animators, I will unfortunately have to use it to some extent. Some of them also post on other platforms like pixiv, which allows you to look at content without an account. If there is any other way to look at their content, I do, but some are Twitter exclusive unfortunately.

    People will naturally follow their favorite artists and will want to interact with them. If you could somehow convince the creators to post on a free and open alternative, I would not have any problem completely deleting my Twitter account.

    In the case of Reddit, I would delete my Reddit account if I knew that all the rock hounders, bug identifiers, mineral photographers and crochet enthusiasts were here.

    So, what now? If you are able to, create content that people are interested in and post in exclusively on free and open alternatives. If you have any useful skills or know-how, help people on free and open alternatives with their questions and problems. That is how I got into Twitter and Reddit at least. Maybe it will work for others too.

    And most importantly: be nice. Don’t downvote people’s comments and posts for no reason. Don’t leave toxic comments. Say Thank you, give people compliments, provide constructive criticism and try to be helpful.

    • [OLD ACC] Relected@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      that’s true, I was thinking about self hosting floss alternatives to popular social media sites and make them publicly available for everyone in my country to use, but then I forgot that I dont have money for this

      maybe I can show up to a convention later?

    • muffin@reddthat.comEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      Yes unfortunately Twitter did that yesterday. Hopefully they will be able to scrape the content somehow anyway (apparently Twitter still allows googlebot to crawl their Tweets, so maybe Nitter will just disguise as a googlebot)

      • nevial@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think so. Elon posted that that step was only necessary because of heavy scraping for AI purposes. Once they got that sorted out, tweets should be public again and guess Bitter will start working again

        • Kleinbonum@feddit.deEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Elon posted

          I mean, sure, but: why should we believe anything he says?

          The reality on the ground seems to be that Elon just tweets whatever thought enters his mind, and in a best case scenario, people then run around and scramble to make his tweets come true.