It’s not just Apollo: other Reddit apps are shutting down, too
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Like Apollo, they’re shutting down on June 30th.
  • EnderWi99in@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I was a RIF user for as long as it’s been around, and have had a Reddit account for 12+ years now. It’s unfortunate to have to walk away, but I honestly had been hating it there for a while.

    • crossmr@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Definitely. I work from home, so I use old.reddit most of the time, but any time I’m away from my machine, I’ll use RIF. Wouldn’t touch their app with a 10 foot pole, and in a mobile browser it isn’t great either. Behind the scenes the whole place is crumbling.

  • phase_change@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hardly surprising. Any popular app is going to have enough users that it doesn’t make economic sense to stay. A niche app that’s halfway decent will soon have enough users they’ll need to fold to.

    • Don't Ask My Name@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s fairly safe to assume that all third party reddit apps will be shutting down. The price they’ve been quoted for API access is simply too high, and I don’t think any of the devs are rich enough to keep it running out of their own pockets. I wouldn’t be surprised to see some apps try to stay up, but I highly doubt they can last long term.

      Either that or they’d have to start charging each user tons of money, and/or disabling free users entirely.

      In the recent AMA it was said that apps that focus on accessibility might get free access, but based on what devs are saying about having trouble getting in touch with anyone at reddit, I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

      • L3ft_F13ld!@social.fossware.spaceEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I know RedReader is one of the apps that’s being allowed as an accessibility tool. But, even then they’ll still be cut off from NSFW content if I understand right. This means you get access to some of Reddit but, obviously not all of it, which is just BS for anyone who wants to keep using it.

        • Don't Ask My Name@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I’ve been using Sync for Reddit with my own API key patched into it (there’s some guides on how to do it for most of the popular apps!) and NSFW content still shows for me, including NSFW subs. I read that they were supposed to be stopping that on July 5th and it’s currently the 6th. Still can happen, but perhaps there’s a chance they’re not stopping NSFW for personal API use?

  • tookmyname@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The ama convinced me they kill old.Reddit as soon as they get the sense that this has ‘blown over.’ By October for sure.

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    • markipol@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The main 2 changes they want to make before the IPO are killing old reddit (no/less data siphoning, css, no stupid nfts/animations/other dumb attempts at monetization) and removing anything nsfw (not just porn, anything considered nsfw like gore, violence, etc. This means state/police violence gets removed, anything to do with war gets removed.)

      idk how much impact banning third party apps will have, but if/when they get rid of old reddit, that will be much worse for them. right now at least there’s that as the last bastion of classic reddit pre-enshittification. Many subreddits will just outright stop working as they rely on classic css for critical features (as well as bots, the api will eventually be rendered unusable for them as well probably). Also, moderation is hard/impossible on new reddit or the official app. At that point, discussions about moving the subreddit to a custom css lemmy instance start happening.

      then goes porn subreddits. Tbh, those users and that content is actually a net negative on the business in general i’m guessing (no ads served, google/apple/mastercard/visa breathing down their necks). That’s still a hell of a lot of users lost permanently, which is X less on the active user count to show to investors.

      I’m just wondering, by the time they get to their IPO, all of these changes will have turned away basically all veteran reddit users and moderators. I don’t think they’re going to put up with rebellious moderators, they’ll just replace them (there’s already going to be a list of “reddit approved moderators” that can use mod bots, this is the start of that). Will there even be anything left by IPO time? Will there even be an IPO, if the users go down by 40% like tumblr? I mean, they could easily just pivot to a mainstream facebook/instagram/tiktok alternative, but will it work? Those apps already exist. Why would anyone ever go from them to reddit? They’d have to be filling a market gap, like tiktok did after vine got shut down. I just don’t see it happening.