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I am still somewhat shocked that they went through with this. I built a Reddit API[1] alternative as a form of protest, they responded by blocking my personal

by dom96 3y ago

I am still somewhat shocked that they went through with this. I built a Reddit API[1] alternative as a form of protest, they responded by blocking my personal Reddit account. Very sad what Reddit has become. 1 - https://api.reddiw.com https://api.reddiw.com

ztgasdf 3y ago
Will you release the code for this?
- dom96 3y ago
  I think so. Though it’s not nearly as sophisticated as you might think. Are you interested in hosting an instance of it?
  - Aeolun 3y ago
    What will they do if many people do. Make the site inaccessible without signing in?
    - simfree 3y ago
      Even LinkedIn has not gone quite this far, usually the first page is viewable without logging in.
  - simfree 3y ago
    Having an equivalent of Nitter and Invidious would be amazing! I would love to host an instance of this API, you should publish your code! Apps like RedReader will be impossible to modify and use in a libre manner without a replacement API implementation like this.
    - TobTobXX 3y ago
      > Having an equivalent of Nitter and Invidious would be amazing! Something like https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/ ?
    - SpookyChoice 3y ago
      Have you tried https://libreddit.de https://libreddit.de ? It can also be self-hosted
ryandrake 3y ago
Like a lot of news today, it’s simultaneously shocking and not surprising. It’s tough to keep a positive attitude. Every week it seem like things that, against the odds turned out to be good, are being deliberately torn down so that a few rich people can get slightly richer. Greed is killing everything nice, and nobody has both the power and willingness to stop it.
- genocidicbunny 3y ago
  More and more I find myself on the side that greed and those who egregiously practice it, need to be excised from humanity with extreme prejudice. Greed should be a short-lived terminal illness.
  - spombg 3y ago
    [flagged]
dehrmann 3y ago
It's a completely different approach, but maybe you can do web view shenanigans to create an API bridge on devices.
- busymom0 3y ago
  Reddit will be able detect that easily.
- ozr 3y ago
  Why work around it? If they want to kill their service, I'd rather watch it happen with a smile than desperately try to save them.
  - codemac 3y ago
    Because reddit is a social phenomenon, not a technological one.
    - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
      It's both and the technological element is laughably easy to recreate. The social element takes time but Reddit never had any meaningful control over that anyway.
echelon 3y ago
They banned your personal account?! Do you have the ability to edit or access your old comments? Is it a shadowban, read-only, or a full block?
- dom96 3y ago
  They “permanently suspended” it. It appears I have read-only access to my comments/subreddits but cannot comment/upvote/access my subreddits moderator tools.

by dom96 3y ago

ztgasdf 3y ago

Will you release the code for this?

dom96 3y ago
I think so. Though it’s not nearly as sophisticated as you might think. Are you interested in hosting an instance of it?
- Aeolun 3y ago
  What will they do if many people do. Make the site inaccessible without signing in?
  - simfree 3y ago
    Even LinkedIn has not gone quite this far, usually the first page is viewable without logging in.
- simfree 3y ago
  Having an equivalent of Nitter and Invidious would be amazing! I would love to host an instance of this API, you should publish your code! Apps like RedReader will be impossible to modify and use in a libre manner without a replacement API implementation like this.
  - TobTobXX 3y ago
    > Having an equivalent of Nitter and Invidious would be amazing! Something like https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/ ?
  - SpookyChoice 3y ago
    Have you tried https://libreddit.de https://libreddit.de ? It can also be self-hosted

ryandrake 3y ago

Like a lot of news today, it’s simultaneously shocking and not surprising. It’s tough to keep a positive attitude. Every week it seem like things that, against the odds turned out to be good, are being deliberately torn down so that a few rich people can get slightly richer. Greed is killing everything nice, and nobody has both the power and willingness to stop it.

genocidicbunny 3y ago
More and more I find myself on the side that greed and those who egregiously practice it, need to be excised from humanity with extreme prejudice. Greed should be a short-lived terminal illness.
- spombg 3y ago
  [flagged]

dehrmann 3y ago

It's a completely different approach, but maybe you can do web view shenanigans to create an API bridge on devices.

busymom0 3y ago
Reddit will be able detect that easily.
ozr 3y ago
Why work around it? If they want to kill their service, I'd rather watch it happen with a smile than desperately try to save them.
- codemac 3y ago
  Because reddit is a social phenomenon, not a technological one.
  - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
    It's both and the technological element is laughably easy to recreate. The social element takes time but Reddit never had any meaningful control over that anyway.

echelon 3y ago

They banned your personal account?! Do you have the ability to edit or access your old comments? Is it a shadowban, read-only, or a full block?

dom96 3y ago
They “permanently suspended” it. It appears I have read-only access to my comments/subreddits but cannot comment/upvote/access my subreddits moderator tools.