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Asking third-party reddit app devs to consider Lemmy after recent Reddit API changes. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Archit@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I've also cross-posted this post on other third-party apps' subs:

EDIT: Forgot to write a bit of an introduction of myself, hello to everyone here, long time redditor and someone who also happens to mod a lot of subs on reddit such as r/electricvehicles, r/trulyunpopularopinion and etc!

Though I love to moderate and contribute to this communities meaningfully, I never liked reddit, as a huge FOSS fan, and these recent API changes are freaking stupid as well, there wasn't a better reason for me to not consider moving to Lemmy. I will be speaking with a lot of other reddit mods in my own mod teams and some other friends, hopefully I can bring some subs/people here.

Speaking of bringing people, please do consider checking out these posts I've linked above, and consider upvoting them if you agree, this situation with third-party apps are a great opportunity for Lemmy, hopefully it reaches to the devs, and even if not all apps make a move, even one would be a win.

Thank you!

EDIT 2: Hey guys! I missed some third party apps on the list above, just updated them, and the new added ones are RIF, Joey, Get Narwhal and RedReader. UPDATE: Added ReddPlanet.

Please do consider visiting those that I just added and upvote them, so hopefully they can reach to respective developers!

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[–] dogmuffins@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 years ago (35 children)

The reluctance of redditors to move to lemmy always amazes me.

Not surprisingly, there's a lot of posts in a lot of subs about the recently announced changes. In every post the same pattern is repeated ad-nauseum:

  • "i hate reddit, it sucks here, I've always wanted to leave, I'm never coming back once this happens"
  • "maybe we should move the sub to lemmy so we won't have this problem in future?"
  • "but what about all our data, the wiki & post history and such"
  • "but there's no users on lemmy"
  • "but that would split the community!"

This is the case even in the subs I would have thought would be really keen to jump ship, like /r/selfhosted

I think this type of approach is the right idea though, a better ecosystem can only be good.

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

undefined> “but there’s no users on lemmy”

I mean that's a reasonable point. The amount of users is always important for a platform adaptation. But I see a good chance for Lemmy if/when Reddit removes/restricts all porn subs.. IF there's a place for it in Lemmy.

[–] Zagaroth@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I suspect there will be specific servers/communities that support that content.

[–] orclev@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I've yet to see one. It's one of the handful of things that don't exist yet on Lemmy that I'd actually miss from reddit. There's a few speciality subs that don't have any parallels on here but there's nothing stopping that content though. Porn on the other hand seems to be universally banned on every Lemmy instance I've ever seen. I guess moderating that content is just too much of a headache for most people.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

I think it's exactly that no one wants the headache of moderating that. But I'm certain someone will spin up an instance that allows it as soon as Reddit bans it.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 5 points 2 years ago

I guess moderating that content is just too much of a headache for most people.

Yep, plus I can only imagine just how worse that headache would be for whomever is probably the first to offer it.

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