After July 1st, my rif is fun app linked to old.reddit. All good. As of a few days ago, the app no longer opens. Any insights into what transpired?

  • WyattDerp@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 year ago

    What happened is the reason that Lemmy has the user base it does now. Here’s a HIGHLY-abridged version:

    Reddit admins chose to strengthen censorship and guidelines against anything that could be considered lewd. I so doing, regulating apps that linked to Reddit like RIF became targets.

    Reddit admins chose the path of strict regulation and higher prices, and then made the pricing for API access exorbitant. Since RIF requires that access, the cost became a hurdle and many developers, subreddits and users fought back in the ways they could.

    Ultimately, Reddit was trying to force traffic (and revenue) through ONLY their app and access, and caused a large number of apps and communities to close entirely.

    If you’d like to hear details from people with much more information, check out redditwasfun on here, or do a quick Google search in the saga. It’s been a total shit show.

    • C4d@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      >Reddit admins chose to strengthen censorship and guidelines against anything that could be considered lewd.

      I am not sure that this is quite correct; I got the impression that the NSFW content management / content restriction aspect was chosen to be the palatable or defensible thin end of the wedge on the road to creating increasing disparity between what was available via the official app and what could be accessed by third parties via API - my guess is that we would start to see gatekeeping of things like sport content and maybe some sponsored subreddits etc.

      >Reddit admins chose the path of strict regulation and higher prices, and then made the pricing for API access exorbitant.

      Exactly; the impression I got was that they wanted third-party apps to be financially non-viable.

      >Ultimately, Reddit was trying to force traffic (and revenue) through ONLY their app

      Absolutely. And by the time they killed off Apollo, I was already browsing Lemmy.