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Largest 3rd party apps need to cooperate and build their own backend. They have a perfect frontend, and the users. It could be a seamless transition.

goda90 3y ago
Or they could cooperate to make an open scraping engine to replace the APIs. A large enough group of volunteer devs could have a short turnaround from when Reddit messes up the front end to having the scraper working again.
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
There's a few projects underway to do just that; I've seen Lemmy [0] being mentioned a lot. [0] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
- godshatter 3y ago
  I'm wondering if communities like Lemmy will be any more open to other ways of thinking than reddit is. My politics align fairly well with the reddit political stances, but when it doesn't line up exactly it's like I'm a far-right actual nazi or something. I'm hoping other communities will be more open to people actually thinking somewhat differently from themselves. I'm not holding my breath, though. I'm going to give Lemmy a shot and keep my head down and see how it works out. Realistically, I won't be leaving reddit until old.reddit.com goes away or my ad-blocker stops working.
  - DoktorDelta 3y ago
    Because Lemmy is a federated service, you can run your own instance to cater to your specific political alignment. However, other instances can choose to block content from your instance from showing up on theirs. Likewise, you can ask to 'link' your instance to others with similar ideas/rules and share posts between both. As a result, the only thing stopping someone with particularly niche political views from spinning up their own instance is the potential lack of other interested users.
riku_iki 3y ago
3rd party apps have 5% of reddit userbase according to appstores download stats. Also, they likely will find out that backend is also not an easy part very soon.

goda90 3y ago

Or they could cooperate to make an open scraping engine to replace the APIs. A large enough group of volunteer devs could have a short turnaround from when Reddit messes up the front end to having the scraper working again.

Cthulhu_ 3y ago

There's a few projects underway to do just that; I've seen Lemmy [0] being mentioned a lot. [0] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

godshatter 3y ago
I'm wondering if communities like Lemmy will be any more open to other ways of thinking than reddit is. My politics align fairly well with the reddit political stances, but when it doesn't line up exactly it's like I'm a far-right actual nazi or something. I'm hoping other communities will be more open to people actually thinking somewhat differently from themselves. I'm not holding my breath, though. I'm going to give Lemmy a shot and keep my head down and see how it works out. Realistically, I won't be leaving reddit until old.reddit.com goes away or my ad-blocker stops working.
- DoktorDelta 3y ago
  Because Lemmy is a federated service, you can run your own instance to cater to your specific political alignment. However, other instances can choose to block content from your instance from showing up on theirs. Likewise, you can ask to 'link' your instance to others with similar ideas/rules and share posts between both. As a result, the only thing stopping someone with particularly niche political views from spinning up their own instance is the potential lack of other interested users.

riku_iki 3y ago

3rd party apps have 5% of reddit userbase according to appstores download stats. Also, they likely will find out that backend is also not an easy part very soon.