• CapgrasDelusion@lemmy.ml
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    I’m curious what this does to libreddit and teddit. Teddit has said as of a month ago they’ll go to HTML scraping. Libreddit I think is still waiting to see. But then there is the question of why reward that ecosystem by staying in it? Unfortunately (at least for replacing Twitter and Reddit) as we saw with Twitter and Mastodon I don’t see a fediverse site gaining dominance over Reddit, mostly due to the fediverse’s very nature of decentralization. So it would be nice to have open source alternatives through the above services.

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      I sympathize with those libreddit and teddit devs, because they’ve probably spent hundreds of hours building and maintaining those front ends, all to have their work essentially go in the trash at reddit’s whims. But you’re right, these are the dangers of rewarding that ecosystem, and building things for centralized services.

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        their work essentially go in the trash

        They learned a lot in the process probably, that is the most important for them after all. But relying on API is risky, so always go HTML scrapping. The frontends are super useful for finding information already there without accessing the actual website. Always use Lemmy here for everything else.

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        all to have their work essentially go in the trash at reddit’s whims.

        Sure the project may die but the knowledge remains. Software is accumulated knowledge. It can always be studied as long as the source code is available.