Shower Thoughts

There are no 3rd party apps yet. But nothing is stopping one from being made. I'm happy to use a web browser to use Kbin until a more rounded App comes along.

The reasons we used third-party apps were to avoid ads, bots, big brother. I'm personally looking forward to the fediverse making an app though.

Fine, it just means things go back to the pre-mobile days when you did everything on your PC.

We didn't leave because we wouldn't have them any longer, we left because we saw it as unfair how third-party developers have been treated and how the content from users was exploited.

Either way, many people are already working on Kbin and Lemmy apps, some of which already exist.

It is ironic, but the great thing about Kbin is that since it's not subject to Reddit's bullshit API policies, we could see some great third party apps for it in the near future. Meanwhile the way things are going on Reddit, people probably aren't going to have a choice but to use the official app come July 1st.

Kbin's got potential. Reddit... not so much.

I’m accessing this through Mlem on iOS and I only use Mastodon on Ivory. 3P is pretty much the only way I access media these days.

there is no way to kill off 3rd party apps, because the whole API is public - what's your point ?

I'm not having a go or anything. I'm loving this whole transition period. I do miss my boost app though! Does jerboa connect to kbin? or just lemmy? I should go find that out for myself. brb. Also realise that others are most likely being worked on.

It's about locking down the API so that they can harvest user personal data with their own app. It's about the open hate from spez, hoffman, admins toward the community.

Joke's on you I'm reading this on jerboa