Lemmy is a great platform considering how new it is, but the conversation is still majorly about being on Lemmy and how Reddit = bad, and the Fediverse. It’s very fatiguing.
I’m using sync revanced for Reddit, the problem is it’s only a matter of time before the API changes and the app stops working. Until then though I’ll use both sync for reddit and sync for lemmy side by side
Yeah, Reddit hasn’t really changed the API itself with these recent changes, they just made the keys to it cost money.
An API is basically a communication standard between the app and Reddit, that standard changes as new features are added or decisions are made. The app might make a request like getvideo and expect to get a video with the .redditvid extension. Now let’s say Reddit decided to fix their shitty video player and now they start rolling out a new video format, .redditvidgood, and update the API so that getvideo returns this new type.
Now the app makes a getvideo request and gets a .redditvidgood video, but it has no idea how to handle this format, it’s still expecting the old .redditvid format. At best the app will fail to load these new videos but still function otherwise, at worst the app will crash any time it tries to load a video. In this example, even with the best case scenario most videos don’t work anymore. It’s only a matter of time before a change completely breaks all apps that don’t update for the current API, and only a dev with the source code can make those updates to the app.
What about apps like Relay for Reddit? They are continuing with a paid model in the future and are complying with the API changes. They should be unaffected by this, if I’ve understood correctly? Relay is my app of choice.
In the case of “legit” apps that are following the new rules, they will be fine. The dev will likely have knowledge of an upcoming API change before it’s released so they can update their app for it before it breaks anything.
The problem with revanced apps is there is no dev making these updates, at least not that I’m aware of.
Reddit banned my account for “Abusing the report button”, and still won’t unban it. I still miss reddit because Lemmy doesn’t have enough interest specific forums.
I need to talk to someone about Mortal Kombat and Sonic!
They banned me for saying child molesters deserved to die. Meanwhile there’s all kinds of other threads with people saying the same shit about other way less bad demographics and nothing happens to them… Hmmmmmm.
My abuse of the report button, by the way, was because I kept reporting people for being outright malicious towards religious users. And since one’s belief system is protected class as far as discrimination goes, I thought I was doing the right thing. And when I tried to explain this, my appeal was ignored. I still miss it sometimes because there are a lot of groups that just haven’t been established on this platform yet. Sure we have a gaming channel, but we don’t have an in-depth discussion for Mortal Kombat or sonic the hedgehog. And with the new Mortal Kombat coming out in september, oh damn do I miss the old joint sometimes. Oh well, has Reddit gets worse and worse it’ll eventually be left in the dust. It’s not like I was banned for doing anything wrong. Just trying to uphold the terms of service when the website would not.
My appeal was ignored as well. I even gave them an example of a thread with dozens of comments that were just like mine but against a corporate executive asking what the difference was and they still just gave me the canned response. The only conclusion I can draw from that is the Reddit admins must want to create a safe space for child molesters specifically.
Pro tip, use Tor and a different Email and you can create a new account without ban evasion detection kicking in. Make sure you copy the link for email verification and open it in Tor not in the normal browser.
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