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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Shialac@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world

It was one of those few 3rd party Apps that still worked. Apparently dev was in talks with Reddit in obtaining Paid-API-Access, but now they cut off his API-Access mid talks without informing him

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[-] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 11 points 1 year ago

Another sign Reddit was never interested in having third party apps at all. They want all mobile traffic through their own app.

[-] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Which would be fine at all, you know. It's their platform and their servers, and they can do what they want.

Except for the fact that the official app is several orders of magnitude more primitive, inefficient and uncomfortable to use. Even more so for Android than for iOS

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Who gives that platform value? Who fills it with content for them to profit off of? Who moderates it for them, for free?

Users.

And they should be able to interact with the site they built up however the hell they please.

[-] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Dystopia for Reddit seems like it has the best staying power since it serves an accessibility need that the bloated official app can’t. I’m down to that and Old Reddit. If they kill off both, I’m probably done.

[-] jaybirrd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ah yes another prime example of them working with those who were willing to work with them. That's what they said, right?

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

what, are you calling them a liar? speddit would never lie!

[-] Badtouchspez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I sure as fuck will. As the genuine spez, that likes molestation. It’s true, spez likes it. I am qualified to say I fucking will.

[-] Wolf_359@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My prediction: Reddit is moving toward a YouTube-esque format.

They are going to monetize by allowing creators to make money from their content. This is why they're getting rid of awards. Of course, they'll take a cut which is probably why they're going toward this model.

They have also been moving toward more detailed, identifiable profiles as well.

They're trying to make the new social media.

[-] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This will just turn the site into a massive shill fest full of people pandering and not to mention huge scale botting. AIs will be churning shite out.

Real quality will go elsewhere.

[-] antonim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This will just turn the site into a massive shill fest full of people pandering

Ummm...

[-] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunate but predictable. Reddit and u/spez have decided that third-party apps are going to die, and nothing is going to stop them. The "talks" they were offering to interested devs were always just a show, as this clearly demonstrates.

[-] No_Me_Jodas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Seems like you can’t trust a guy who edits user comments behind the scenes and lies about being extorted.

[-] tryagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

How fucking shitty. It just proves that everything spez said about negotiating with developers in good faith was bullshit.

[-] Gru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] leapingleopard@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

mlmym.org acts like oldreddit, someone linked it further down in the comments, and it's changed my world.

[-] osti@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Wow, that's incredible. I've been using a tampermonkey script to sort of emulate the feel of old.reddit, but this is essentially one-to-one. Thanks.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've got a Stylish plugin to expand the width of the site. I just wish they would agree on how to fix the problem.

[-] UpUpAndAway@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Dude this is kinda life changing. So is this a separate lemmy instance? Or what exactly is this?

[-] CaptObvious@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like it's just a passthrough website that formats the lemmy content.

[-] Gatopardo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So sad. I'm here because of that. Hopefully this community grows fast.

[-] islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was so stoked that thinking that maybe Joey wouldn't go down, it's been my most used phone app for years. Trying to force myself to love lemmy, just wish there was an app that allows swiping from one post to the next

[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If your on Android the connect for Lemmy app allows this. Though it is in experimental mode right now but it works well for me

[-] islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How do you do it? I go into the post and show my finger from right to left and it doesn't go to the next post. If I do it on a comment that action just likes it, doesn't go to the next post

[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You have to turn on horizontal swipe for next post in settings first. Then after that just view a post and swipe from right to left on the topic and it should go to the next post

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Man, Joey was my favorite one for sure

[-] The_Nostromo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was objectively the best reddit app. So many people missed out. Was a great ride. Here's hoping he develops a similar app for this platform.

[-] sweeny@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

I hope they notice the popularity of this post and take it as a sign to make joey for Lemmy!

[-] Retreaux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This was the moment I moved to Lemmy. I was hemming and hawing but after Joey I was done. Would love to see a Joey for Lemmy someday.

[-] Mathusalem@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

it's sad Joey was a great app.

[-] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Joey was my go to reddit app, and I'm really sad to read about the developer stressing out. They seemed pretty cool, so it sucks that reddit is doing this to them.

[-] wmrch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried all the reddit apps I got aware of and Joey was just miles ahead of the pack.

There have been so many customization settings, custom themes, well-impoemented navigation features like skipping posts/comments with the volume keys of the phone etc.

I'm currently using 8 apps for Lemmy and none of them seems even close (yes, I know these are mostly alpha releases).

I really hope the joey dev creates a Lemmy client.

[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's wild that to me that the app dev made money from essentially being a web scrapper. No one should be makingoney off us posting memes lol 😂

[-] dudebro@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Meh. Very little sympathy for people betting their livelihood on proprietary technologies.

this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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