Addressing the community about changes to our API

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Jerboa for Lemmy

Lots of people are migrating to Lemmy. That’s the one I’ve seen most often, anyway. And it’s the one that the mod team I’m part of is considering moving to since we were threatened by the admins. Apparently it’s a bit difficult to navigate at first, but you find your way around pretty fast. Idk I haven’t explored it yet.

#Social Networks #Social News #Knowledge Sharing 613 social mentions

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Redact.dev

If Reddit won't let you interact with them through third party apps, take back you content. Use a program like Redact and remove all your comments and submissions. Reddit gets a fuck ton of traffic from search engines using OUR content (submissions and comments) and are now trying to fuck over the only people who made it a decent experience. Don't let them.

#Social Media Tools #Privacy #Monitoring Tools 148 social mentions

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Tildes

Are you concerned that this may be a turning point not unlike the great Digg migration that destroyed that site and resulted in reddit being where it is today? Alternatives like Tildes and kbin seem to be gaining momentum.

#Social Networks #Social News #Knowledge Sharing 231 social mentions

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reditr

#Social Networks #Social News #Project Management 11 social mentions

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Lemmy

It already exists and it's completely open source! Check out Lemmy.

#Social Networks #Social News #Knowledge Sharing 409 social mentions

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Snapzu

#Social Networks #Social News #Knowledge Sharing 2 social mentions

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Ape Wisdom

I operate https://apewisdom.io which tracks crypto and stock mentions on different subreddits.

#Fintech #Investing #Tech 31 social mentions

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Archive.md

#Bookmark Manager #Productivity #Bookmarks 1185 social mentions

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Amazon AWS

AWS is Amazon's cloud computing and hosting suite and has nothing to do with the Amazon store. It's what many companies use to host their websites, offer scalable network infrastructure, route traffic between their web services, and so on and so forth. I interpreted "Amazon API" as calls to some company that is using AWS's API gateway for controlling access to their API, and what Amazon would charge them for it, which is presumably cost that would be passed on to the customer in some manner if a third party is using said API.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #IaaS 362 social mentions

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Reddit

Reddit absolutely can serve ads via the API, however there is no way for the non-third party apps (ima refer to as real uses) to filter out those, as adding a "promoted" variable to the response will just take us back to the beginning and will cause real uses more headaches having to filter this data, and allow apps like apollo to just filter them out too. In general the rule of thumb is, you don't serve ads on an API, that's the whole point of the API, make it as easy to pull data, without having to filter all the clutter from a web page, and take less bandwidth. What I don't understand is why apollo doesn't use the web GraphQL API, as I can clearly access it and see raw post data. Im certain there is a reason for this, but I don't know what, since I can clearly read the GQL data in devtools networking tab. This "API" also has ads and would be indistinguishable from loading up the reddit.com website, as that is what it essentially is.

#Social Networks #Social Network #Forums 3294 social mentions

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Matrix.org

People should use Matrix rooms and spaces (groups of rooms, like Discord servers). Don't just use matrix.org as your homeserver, decentralize! You don't miss out on anything if you pick a different homeserver, they sync.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Instant Messaging 582 social mentions