I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
I mean…my handle here is proof enough what happened.
I used Narwhal, IIRC Reddit made it official and then killed it when they started their own app, I bought Apollo because good app and dev, then reddit killed that one too. Along with all the other BS they did, that was the final straw. Been here ever since.
RIP RiF
Ya… I used boost. I use boost now for Lemmy.
I used reddit because boost was so good. I only go on reddit now if I’m extremely bored. And even then I don’t spend much time on it.
I also like the engagement here even if reddits riffraff is here more than there.
Damn I miss Apollo, such a well written app