-7

After July 1st, my rif is fun app linked to old.reddit. All good. As of a few days ago, the app no longer opens. Any insights into what transpired?

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] WyattDerp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

What happened is the reason that Lemmy has the user base it does now. Here's a HIGHLY-abridged version:

Reddit admins chose to strengthen censorship and guidelines against anything that could be considered lewd. I so doing, regulating apps that linked to Reddit like RIF became targets.

Reddit admins chose the path of strict regulation and higher prices, and then made the pricing for API access exorbitant. Since RIF requires that access, the cost became a hurdle and many developers, subreddits and users fought back in the ways they could.

Ultimately, Reddit was trying to force traffic (and revenue) through ONLY their app and access, and caused a large number of apps and communities to close entirely.

If you'd like to hear details from people with much more information, check out redditwasfun on here, or do a quick Google search in the saga. It's been a total shit show.

[-] C4d@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Reddit admins chose to strengthen censorship and guidelines against anything that could be considered lewd.

I am not sure that this is quite correct; I got the impression that the NSFW content management / content restriction aspect was chosen to be the palatable or defensible thin end of the wedge on the road to creating increasing disparity between what was available via the official app and what could be accessed by third parties via API - my guess is that we would start to see gatekeeping of things like sport content and maybe some sponsored subreddits etc.

Reddit admins chose the path of strict regulation and higher prices, and then made the pricing for API access exorbitant.

Exactly; the impression I got was that they wanted third-party apps to be financially non-viable.

Ultimately, Reddit was trying to force traffic (and revenue) through ONLY their app

Absolutely. And by the time they killed off Apollo, I was already browsing Lemmy.

[-] Nemo@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The dev has switched to focusing on development of their new app, Three Cheers for Tildes. The alpha version has been released to positive reception.

[-] FlyboyM@lemmy.fmhy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Damn I wish they were working on an app for Lemmy. RIF was probably one of my favorite apps ever.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It's been shut down.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
-7 points (37.0% liked)

No Stupid Questions

35701 readers
1126 users here now

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others' questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.



Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it's in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.



Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.



Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS