So I found out today that Reddit is killing itself again in a greedy move to kill off third-party apps. The reason I found out was because my feed reader (RSS, the main way I use it when I actually do) gave me a 403 error (access denied) and evidently there are a bunch of subreddits that are "blacked out" right now. Twitter did something similar charging outrageous prices for API calls but I don't use Twitter so I don't give a fuck. RSS doesn't really use an API call (AFAIK) so if mods weren't crying in protest I'd still be fine. I even use a feed to read posts on here.

Youtube is actually doing something similar: they've started to block adblockers and sent legal threats to Invidious, the third-party solution that I generally use (hosted on various sites yewtu.be, vid.puffyan.us, etc.). The funny part about Invidious' case is that it doesn't use Google's Youtube API so the legal threat saying they need to agree to terms of a product they don't use means nothing.

Possibly the most retarded part of this shit is that all of them have made third-party solutions so much better than the official front-end. They made the simple task of serving videos and text so convoluted and bloated and shitty that people went to the trouble to make better ways to access them. :clap :clap :clap

Thank fuck I discovered Odysee... although that site requires Javascript, which is not ideal.

Been following it since it started about 2 weeks ago. Lots of subs are private right now for boycotts but shits not going to change.

I’m done with Reddit when Apollo is shut down at the end of the month.

I never signed up for Reddit, but I followed it for a couple of years until anything remotely political went full commie. That was around 2017.

I pick and chose the subs I followed, and completely blocked the fucking retarded subs. I’ve had r/politics blocked since the beginning.

I would mainly focus on what I liked and then I’d check out “popular” and see if anything big was happening. I’d completely block people too. The ones who made comments that were just beyond comprehension.


I followed games that I liked, CFB, Bama sports, wrestling, a couple of work related subs like woodworking and construction and shit just to see anything cool/new that I might try.

I’ve used it a lot for the porn though. I liked their nsfw content a lot.

That's the only reason I use it. Pretty fucking useless otherwise. The faggots in charge are supposedly trying to lock NSFW content behind the official site & app. Even that has been fucking ruined by OnlyFans prostitutes.

Dumb fact: I'm pretty sure I saw an OF girl on there I knew through work from a few years back (she was a client). Of course I can't verify because the only way to privately message her is to sign up for & give my credit card number to OnlyFans. Not going to happen.

:sadyes

All it took was a threat from the CEO to remove their mod privileges to get most of those scrubs to bend the knee and open the boards back up. :sadyes :lolthumb

Fucking dorks ruined NoFans "in protest," too.