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
Another sign Reddit was never interested in having third party apps at all. They want all mobile traffic through their own app.
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
Also for the fact that they lie through their teeth and can’t even give the decency of honest business.
Why the fuck would we trust these idiots with our data/hard work?
Which is why people should scrub their comments. A lot of people are holding on to “The good times.” with their posts and comments. It doesn’t matter if reddit can technically undo the work, I’m still going to check and make sure it stays gone. Without that content, reddit is nothing.
To be honest, I respect that position, but I don’t hold enough contempt against them to do that, and on the other hand I do value Reddit as an archive of online knowledge and debate. I can just leave it if I don’t want it in my life anymore. I would like any comments I made on specific topics I’m knowledgeable about to be accessible and used as reference in the future.
You can request your data in a simple form submission and the ndownload it, all in .csv and other text formats. The request takes about a week.
Afterwards, use Violentmonkey or another script manager to overwrite and delete all your comments.
I’ve already done it on an account that was over a decade old, no regrets.
But that’s not the point. I’m not saying I’m super important, but I believe I have helped several people with technical or academic questions on Reddit before, and anyone looking that up could access my comments and they might help other people in the future.
I don’t hate Reddit as a corporation enough to erase what might be useful to someone else in the future, and they can profit off of it if they want, since I didn’t make those comments with my profit in mind anyway.
I understand wanting to erase your data from Reddit, and I realize it’s also a responsible decision, but I personally don’t like the idea of wiping clean one of the greatest hubs of information in the entire internet, even if I disagree with their corporate practices.
Which tool did you use to delete your comments? I used Power Delete Suite but was only able to delete 1700 out of the 4000 total comments I wrote with my account.
I used reddit-shreddit . Only ones it won’t get is from subs that have been disabled.
Except that they were very friendly to third-party app developers for 15 years and are now claiming they didn’t know third-party apps existed.
It’s telling that they got angry about the recording being released more than anything.
Before this went down, Christian and other app developers had nothing but great things to say about Reddit, especially regarding their communication regarding upcoming changes that could break their third-party apps, so I’m not buying the “We didn’t know they were using the API to download all of Reddit!” argument at all. There are a few YouTubers making that argument as well, that Reddit didn’t know app developers were making third party apps and the API wasn’t intended for it.
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.
Exactly. They are trying to monetize everyone they can before their IPO. They don’t admit it, but we all know the truth.
Their mobile site is far superior to their app still. Especially when you switch it to the classic style. If only res worked on a mobile browser it would be perfect.
I absolutely hate their mobile site. It’s nothing compared to the mobile oriented experience I got from Sync.
Ah yes another prime example of them working with those who were willing to work with them. That’s what they said, right?
I really hope he’s able to migrate his app to Lemmy and continue to make a living. I would happily pay again.
Truly. Joey was so damn good. Honestly I would’ve paid 20 bucks monthly to keep using it.
I’ve personally sent Joey developer the email suggesting Joey for Lemmy. 🫶
I did too… Yet no response. He even did a survey and I suggested again he should port Joey to Lemmy and I’ll buy again. But it seems he wanted to stay in the Reddit bullshit. Let’s hope he will come to Lemmy.
RiF migrant here. Howdy, y’all! Pull up a chair.
Narwhal on IOS is still going I just keep it to see how long it lasts zero chance I get the official app.
I deleted Narhwal even though it wasn’t cut off from the API because I had no intention of using the developer’s proposed subscription model that was supposed to come at some point in the future. Uncertainty about the pricing etc., made it feel like I had Damocles’ sword over my head. Rather just rip off the bandaid and move on. Plus no more porn (if I’m being honest).
So sad. I’m here because of that. Hopefully this community grows fast.
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I’d happily pay for it. Fuck, I’d subscribe
Very sad to see this. … and why I am right here right now.
That goes to show it was never about gettimg paid to use the AI, it was just to shut down all 3rd party apps. Even those who wnated to cooperate
Wow, reddit reaching new levels of suck right here.
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
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
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
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
Connect for Lemmy has you covered. If you’re on Android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
Else, you can try WefWef.app which also worked really well as a web app. It has gesture support.
I don’t wanna be mean to the guy who effectively just lost his job but like, come on bro. Reddit wasn’t exactly hiding their negative intentions, outright lies, and lack of respect.
He said it’s his only source of income, so he’s probably been busy trying to gain as much time as he could from Reddit while simultaneously trying to work out his finances and such. And if Reddit was still talking to him, it’s like dangling a carrot. The dev had some hope before the rug was swept out from under him.
Seems like you can’t trust a guy who edits user comments behind the scenes and lies about being extorted.
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.
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 😂
You have no idea about amount of work involved, have you?
He made money from people liking provided fun and easy access to reddit, additional functionality and customization options.
