• doctortofu@reddthat.com
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      Same here. It is going to suck A LOT - I’ve been a heavy reddit user for more than 15 years, most of it was through RiF. I will miss some communities I’m a part of there, but there is no way I’m using the garbage official app or supporting the lying scum of the CEO of they place, so this is how my reddit adventure ends… :(

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    Holy shit. They lost their two best apps on both platforms in one day. Maybe the people running the company are failing.

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      When you put it that way, it’s pretty unbelievable they’ve done this. They had many developers willing to make more (and better) ways to interact with the site (wtf happened to “engagement”, isn’t that the literal buzzword these days?)

      They could have literally just either had a fair pricing system, ads in the API, and removal of ads for Reddit premium users (or even all 3). Even if their main concern was AI scraping, just make it so it’s limited and you can’t literally just download the whole of Reddit. It’d be very easy to distinguish AI traffic from user traffic.

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          I’ve got an account there and it feels great. It just needs users, but the core is effectively res old.reddit for mobile, e.g. The reddit many of us started out with a 10+ years ago

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            Hey sorry to ask, any chance you can send me/DM an invite? I’m just a dude that likes niche communities and doesn’t troll.

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    Just the possibility of RIF shutting down last week is what brought me here. Now with it being confirmed, I’m really hoping to make this my new home and saying goodbye to reddit entirely

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    My first ever Reddit app. Despite having used so many different reddit apps over the years I always kept coming back to Reddit is Fun. Going to miss it.

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    Synch is going too. But that was the point, wasn’t it. We all saw it coming. Sadly Bill Gates didn’t decide to save any of them.