Seems that someone at Reddit decided to grant read access to RIF, this morning I opened the app just for kicks and it wouldn’t load anything. Well I tried again after lunch (Europe CET time) and it could access the front page but I was logged out. Trying to login shows a different logon page and even with valid credentials gives out a ‘Bad request’ response.
That means they are not just feeling the heat, they are probably burning really bad.
Nah. Absolutely fuck Reddit. I paid for RiF, I’m happy with my contribution. Used it for 12 years. Sadly removed it from my home screen this morning when I saw it was over.
I absolutely refuse to provide reddit traffic, even if it does now show content. If the reason it’s showing content is really due to reddit backpedalling, then fuck them, because they’re ONLY doing it now that it’s affected them. A little late for that.
I’ll return to reddit only if they reverse this API shit, and if spez gets the boot. Until then, I’m done.
I’m curious why you would go back? I’m totally happy on Lemmy. There are some growing pains but it’ll get better and I think there’s already plenty of content. Lemmy doesn’t need as many users as Reddit, it just needs to hit a critical mass to have enough content to keep you busy and I feel like it’s already pretty much there.
Lemmy today and Lemmy a week ago are night and day! Content has already reached 2014 reddit levels of activity. Besides the different UI, I wouldn’t know I left.
Lemmy on 12 June was extremely sparse. Highest upvoted posts maybe had 50 votes and “active” and “hot” showed posts from up to 7 days prior. Now it’s so much better with the amount of activity.
I was here then as well. I created a new community, created a post, it got a random upvote. Turns out that simply making a post meant I made the front page of lemmy.world!
Each day the fediverse has gotten almost twice as busy as it was the day before. I feel like within another two weeks I’m not even going to miss reddit at all LOL.
I only joined about a week ago but I’ve noticed a big difference too. I regularly see threads with over 100 comments and that’s plenty of engagement for me. Since this is an open platform there’s no entity trying to hack our brains to maximize engagement and get you addicted, it can just be a healthy discussion for those who want it.
Most my reddit time was spent in gaming communities for specific games and lemmy seems to be lacking in that department currently
I already uninstalled RIF.
I’m leaning more toward “incompetence” as the explanation for this. What good does it do Reddit to leave RIF intact, but simply disallow logging in?
Reddit’s value depends on content creation and interactions driving ad views. Read-only RIF users create no content or interactions with the site. And for many like me who purchased the premium ad-free version, we see no ads.
Admittedly, I’m not sure if the RIF ads in the free version are Reddit’s own ads or not, but without the content creation, and the interactions driving more engagement, RIF does little but drag on the site.
The ads in the free version are rif ads, so that revenue would go to talklittle. That was one of the sour points of the API change; anyone utilizing the API aren’t allowed to run their own ads. So not only was the new API absurdly expensive, but reddit was also blocking 3PA developers from getting any revenue outside of subscriptions
So Reddit is now getting nothing at all from RiF and the dev still gets ad revenue? Brilliant move
Eh, I’m removing RiF from my homepage, probably wont delete the app though (too sentimental lol). There’s no point in using the app if I’m not able to be logged in and make comments to communities. I’ll just leave reddit behind me.
u/talklittle is working on rif for tidles. I’m curious if it will be a new app, or an update to the existing.
And will he change the name to TIF?
It’s going to be called Three Cheers for Tildes
Nah. Absolutely fuck Reddit. I paid for RiF, I’m happy with my contribution. Used it for 12 years. Sadly removed it from my home screen this morning when I saw it was over.
I absolutely refuse to provide reddit traffic, even if it does now show content. If the reason it’s showing content is really due to reddit backpedalling, then fuck them, because they’re ONLY doing it now that it’s affected them. A little late for that.
I’ll return to reddit only if they reverse this API shit, and if spez gets the boot. Until then, I’m done.
Not good enough. My reddit account is gone and I have no intention of coming back.
too little too late
deleted by creator
Can confirm. I can use RiF right now 🥺
I will still lessen my reddit time as I lost trust on the platform
Or… rip off the bandaid ftw
Occasionally, you run into a link to reddit; I’d rather see that link open in RiF than the browser or Reddits own app, to ensure no ad money gets sent their way.
Edit: nvm, doesn’t work.
the creator of another app, realy for reddit, said the ban goes in to full effect on the 5th, after the weekend and the 4th of july holiday.
Interesting. Though without my sub reddits it feels just like classic social media; force fed.
For what it’s worth you can still put your favorite subs in the sidebar by starring them and have easy access. Honestly lurking with rif is a much better experience than using the first party app
Leave reddit instead of giving them traffic
Thanks for the info. I’m not sure if I will try that just yet. It would be nice to hear from the creator of RIF and see if he condones any of this.
The rif creator recommended we come to lemmy.world. its why i am here.
I can definitely browsee reddit with rif while logged out. Can’t imagine what this accomplishes for reddit.
personal guess is that they’re trying to continue to tempt people over to the official app. given that rif has a lot of power users, they’re probably hoping that they’ll give in when they want to interact with content
or idk could just be a total bug
Maybe they can still say " oh hey look our traffic/requests are high"? They lost some valuation late last week so they might be looking for any way to indicate that the number of people/ access requests aren’t dropping.
Read only use is hardly good though, that’s just coating them money. You want engagement from users to drive ads.
jokes on them. i hasn’t logged in to reddit since i deleted my account a year ago. literally only use rif for read only mode to watch videos. dont login access to post cos most of reddit are retarded so trying to have any kind of conversation with them is impossible.
