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[–] admiral_muffin@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RIP Apollo. Was truly a ride.

Currently using wefwef and Memmy to browse lemmy via mobile. Wefwef feels closest to Apollo but Memmy has a better interface.

Also subbed to Winston on Reddit, the dev is actively responding to suggestions and aiming to release an app as close as possible like Apollo for browsing reddit. Then of course there’s also Narwhal.

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[–] aperson 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Baconreader is now turned off :(

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[–] MissTyata 11 points 1 year ago

I feel the same way now that I did when I quit World of Warcraft, and started playing Final Fantasy XIV. My favourite app is gone, destroyed by greed.

I'm hoping Lemmy can do for me what Final Fantasy did.

[–] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Whew, finally finished running before the API expires I guess. It does take a long time to delete 9 years worth of post/comments, and I am a "light" user.

[–] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 year ago

Other people have said the same, but Apollo was my most used App on my phone.

I find that during the day, I mainly browse Reddit on my phone, as I can't stand not having RES on my work laptop. I'll have to see what sort of adjustments I'll have to make, as I was looking at using both Reddit (via browser on my laptop) and Lemmy (via wefwef on my phone) whilst the lemmy community gains a bit more traction.

[–] NoTime@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago
[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 year ago

Good Wired article on this (in case you are somehow out-of-the-loop): https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-api-changes-ai-labor/

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My preferred app (RedReader) was allowed to stay,apparently for free, but I still deleted my account. A shame, it was a great app!

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[–] liminis 5 points 1 year ago

Excellent write-up on the API changes, protest, and response as a whole from Jay Peters over at The Verge, whose been covering this more intimately than anyone else I've seen. (Basically a good tl;dr if you want to explain what happened to others.)

[–] trashhalo 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit missed their own deadline for enabling rate limits and now they are weeks away. 🤦‍♀️


Hi Devs,

Over the last few months, we’ve shared updates on our Data API Terms and Developer Terms. Shortly, we will begin enforcing the previously announced, updated API rate limits. Rate limits will go into effect for all apps with usage above the free limit in the coming weeks, and some changes will be noticeable over the next 24 hours.

As we have shared, this will not impact non-commercial bots operating within free rate limits or moderator tools.

Free API access rates are as follows:

100 queries per minute per OAuth client id if you are using OAuth authentication

10 queries per minute if you are not using OAuth authentication

The vast majority of third-party apps and bots fall into the free usage category and should not see any disruptions. Our free rates account for bursts in usage.

For apps that exceed these limits, we have exempted select clients (for example, accessibility-focused apps like RedReader, Luna, and Dystopia), mod bots, and mod tools. If your bot or tool is affected unexpectedly, please reach out here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/14nbw6g/updated_rate_limits_going_into_effect_over_the/

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