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The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark | Many major third-party apps are finally shutting down.

www.theverge.com The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark

It actually happened.

After a month of outrage, protests, and unrest from the community, Reddit has finally flipped the switch to shut down some third-party apps, including Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader.

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Given all the antics by the company and the despicable behavior by spez and his henchmen, my position on reddit has gone from "I'll use it much less now that my mobile app is gone and I only have desktop access" to "I will go out of my way to avoid providing value to the company even if it inconveniences me".
I just spent the better part of 5 hours yesterday manually deleting all my top comments from reddit. They can revoke edits made by pushshift, but they won't be able to figure out which manual edits to revoke. I used to give out technical advice on reddit and I used to get messages thanking me for posts I made years ago. Now all of those posts are gone.
- Ditto. Went from kinda apathetic to full blown hate after all that muppet's antics.
- There's ways to automatically delete every post and comment you ever made, i forgot the sites name but someone built one
  
  Let me know if you or anyone else remembers the site. I gave a lot of PC/tech support on reddit.
- That is what we need to do, take what is ours, the content itself

I left today when they shut down Apollo. I’ll never return. Fuck spez. I hope Reddit becomes the next Digg. Greed literally ruins everything.

RIP Apollo you were a good client.
- The best. Thanks Christian.

Feels like I’ve taken Apollo for granted :( RIP
- If you’re not using Wefwef yet, give it a try. It’s basically an Apollo clone for Lemmy. Still pretty barebones but the dev is super active!
  
  I found so many bugs. I am too new to lemmy and cant figure out which 'subreddits' to report wefwef issues.
- The "he gets us" ad being targeted and spammed at vulnerable groups is sickening. I won't support reddit allowing organizations to prey on people.

9 year user of Sync here. Was so sad to see it go, and can't wait for the Lemmy version! I'm using liftoff right now, and it's very nice.
We all know how shitty it was for Reddit to close the API, but had anyone else noticed how God -awful the Google search results are now? What the fuck with the "restricted/open in app" bullshit?!?!
Reddit can go suck a donkey

It's been good, but it's time to move on and move over. Good to meet you guys.

I am not going back. That's it
- 100% Reddit is dead to me.

I already miss my muscle memory operations through sync :/
- Sync shut down right before I went out for the morning. Got back this arvo, sat down, immediately opened the app and had to just stare at a blank screen for a bit to let it sink in. And now I'm here lol.
  
  I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy app, which the Sync creator says he's working on and there is a community for https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy

In consideration of how Reddit has been treating its users, "flipping the switch" on the API was, to me, like locking a door I had no intention to open again in the first place.
- the attitude is so fucking weird. why are they forcing us to comply with their garbage? shouldn't the site want users to like the change? or a change to be legitimately built with users in mind?
  this new web paradigm is deeply fucked
  
  Pretending to care about your users was a zero interest rate phenomenon

Confirmed Slide no longer works either and unistalled it from my phone. So long reddit, it was fun (but utimately misguided of me to invest time/attention towards it).
Hello Lemmy, you hot new thing!
- lol left as well, deleted all submissions and then replaced every single one of my comments with a hardy "fuck /u/spez" before deleting my account. gotta take our content with us on the way out, it's the only thing reddit has to monetize.
- I'm about to delete my Lemmy account, because I'm a pessimistic hipster.
  
  Deleting your Lemmy account is conformity. Don't be a sell out. /s
- Left yesterday as well, deleted Apollo off my phone and then immediately deleted my Reddit account.
  I have been a user since the beginning almost and am sad to see its decline - especially so rapidly in the past few years.
  Looking forward to the new community.

Moved my lemmy app to the place my reddit app used to sit for 12 years.

On the bright side I’ve been using Lemmy and barely touching Reddit. Thought I’d would be way more of a adjustment than it actually was

RIP Sync and all the others
And fuck spez
Can't suspend my account for saying that here, fuckwad

Apollo was the best. RIP.

I was sad to see Boost go, but it was a great reminder to delete my account. Stoked for Boost for Lemmy!

So, RIF is still showing posts, but won't let me log in (i don't think, it logged me out and I never tried to log back in) is that what these other services are doing as well?

Icing on the big fuck you reddit cake
- Happy cake day, reddit.

you'd think it'd be a fucking advantage for a site to have robust 3rd party apps to serve the needs of more users
furthermore in fact, you'd think the primary goal of a discussion site would be to better the experience for the user, not the advertiser. the site exists to facilitate a user's posts, not an advertiser's schemes and whims
- They could have had third party apps and kept the advertisers happy. All they had to do was put ads into the API and kill access for any app that didn't show those ads.
  This was about user data, I suspect. Way too many apps request and acquire more permissions and data than is remotely acceptable, but people put up with it for lack of alternatives. Reddit's leadership wanted not just the users' data from using reddit, but all the data they could siphon off from direct access to users' phones.

Listing Sync and freaking BaconReader before RIF?
Not that it matters anymore, but wow what a way to spit on the 2nd most popular 3rd party app on the day of its death.
Edit: Sorry, couldn't miss one last opportunity to get Sync's little fanclub riled up. Hello discord 👋

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