• wicked82 [ Ohio ]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Because Reddit has fully turned to the dark side lol. It’s been trending downhill for a while now but with the recent API shenanigans it became very clear it wasn’t going to improve. So here I am lol. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to find an alt (RIP Digg).

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      1 year ago

      Same, plus curiosity and enthusiasm for FOSS. Can’t wait until fediverse is developed enough to host also niche communities like ‘cassette_futurism’ or ‘liminal_space’.

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        1 year ago

        Be the change you want to see :)

        Even just creating those communities, then populating them with a few of the top posts from reddit, would be a good start.

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          That’s a good idea. Is there a certain way you’d recommend doing that? I don’t necessarily want to give Reddit the satisfaction of my traffic lol I’ve seen some people mention ways to browse it anonymously but I’m honestly not very familiar with those options.

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          Might as well ask here since it’s relevant, but I’ve been thinking of spinning up a beefy lemmy instance and “mirroring” some of my favourite reddit subs across into custom mirror communities. A kind of archive but which you can browse from any lemmy UI. For example, there are some news and sports threads I enjoy following. Would this be a good or bad idea? Would it needlessly flood the other instances?

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            There’d be nothing wrong with that, because people could block those communities if they wish.

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            Thought about the same thing. How and can it be automated? Would give Lemmy a good starting point.

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            1 year ago

            I had a similar idea but wouldn’t you need to use Reddit’s API to grab the posts, or is there another way?

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              Yes, but apparently private apps & usage is still free (for now). You just can’t create an app id for use by thousands of users. From https://www.redditinc.com/blog/2023apiupdates :

              Our Reddit Data API will still be open for reasonable and appropriate use cases and accessible via our Developer Platform, which is designed to help developers improve the core Reddit experience.

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      Absolutely, the API changes breaking 3rd party app support are the line for many users including myself.