Asking third-party reddit app devs to consider Lemmy after recent Reddit API changes.

I've also cross-posted this post on other third-party apps' subs:

EDIT: Forgot to write a bit of an introduction of myself, hello to everyone here, long time redditor and someone who also happens to mod a lot of subs on reddit such as r/electricvehicles, r/trulyunpopularopinion and etc!

Though I love to moderate and contribute to this communities meaningfully, I never liked reddit, as a huge FOSS fan, and these recent API changes are freaking stupid as well, there wasn't a better reason for me to not consider moving to Lemmy. I will be speaking with a lot of other reddit mods in my own mod teams and some other friends, hopefully I can bring some subs/people here.

Speaking of bringing people, please do consider checking out these posts I've linked above, and consider upvoting them if you agree, this situation with third-party apps are a great opportunity for Lemmy, hopefully it reaches to the devs, and even if not all apps make a move, even one would be a win.

Thank you!

EDIT 2: Hey guys! I missed some third party apps on the list above, just updated them, and the new added ones are RIF, Joey, Get Narwhal and RedReader. UPDATE: Added ReddPlanet.

Please do consider visiting those that I just added and upvote them, so hopefully they can reach to respective developers!

Minty,

I'm here because of you. Loving your idea, and hoping they go for it. Because what the hell, Reddit.

Archit,

Welcome! I hope you have a good time here man, if you got any questions don't hesitate to shoot em up :)

Minty,

I only wonder what's the best way to advertise c/wish and why it or !wish isn't automatically made into a link :p

GuyDudeman,
@GuyDudeman@lemmy.ml avatar

Reddit banned him! They're freaking out so much.

Krusty,
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Thanks for this 💜

mordekaiq89,

It's true, infinity for reddit is finite, it should be infinity for infinite websites ^/_^

saba,

@mordekaiq89 @Archit I just learned that "finity" is a word! Finity for Reddit!

TerrorBite,

I love using Relay, and if it ever adopts Lemmy support then I'd be using it for sure.

a887dcd7a,

Maybe you want to address mastodon client devs as well… they are familiar with the protocol.

DudeDad,

I've been using iOS app Ivory for Mastodon, and it's FANTASTIC. Little did I know, they also make my favorite calculator app, Calcbot.

I would love it if they swooped in and developed for Lemmy.

readbeanicecream,

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    christian,
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    I use redreader too, I was happy to see the developer post that they were considering reworking it for Lemmy. Hopefully they decide it's worth their effort.

    liaizon,
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    @Archit this is a really great start! I upvoted all your posts over there...

    cavemeat,

    Great job dude, hopefully it inspires more migration.

    veroxii,

    Let's get a hackathon going. Maybe it's possible to have a project which allows these apps to work with lemmy. I created a sub on reddit for it: https://www.reddit.com/r/apihackathon/

    But maybe that's not the right spot - happy for someone to create a similar community here too.

    MDKAOD,

    Message received. Hello from reddit!

    derivator,

    I wonder how hard it would be for Lemmy to expose a Reddit compatible API. That work would only have to be done once, and then all the apps could just switch endpoints instead of each app having to implement the Lemmy API.

    DrQuint,

    This is just an uninformed take, and I don't want to give the idea I know what I'm saying:

    Probably very hard for things beyond the most basic browsing within one instance. There's unavoidable interoperability features we would want here but have no equivalent in a reddit environment, and such apps would just feel too limited versus using a browser with the current Web UI. For example, a user posts from another instance and you click to check their posts, which turns out are all over the place in federated space. Even if we create an API layer that condenses all those requests to a simple single call we would do on Reddit, how to label those results for wherethey reside is still another small UI headache. And that's one problem view out of a couple dozen in the app, while merely assuming single-instance browsing.

    But more drastically, Lemmy's moderation tools are probably heavily different from those on reddit. Even if they're similar in actions - they're absolutely going to be dissimilar in completeness, Reddit is much older than Lemmy and has that time advantage. I know a large part of people who moderate reddit did it using third party apps for ease of use on a phone, and that's a demographic that probably can't be captured very easily.

    derivator,

    Some things certainly don't map 1:1, but my own uninformed take is that it's probably not that big of a problem.

    For example, a user posts from another instance and you click to check their posts, which turns out are all over the place in federated space. Even if we create an API layer that condenses all those requests to a simple single call

    Doesn't Lemmy already do this? I am posting from feddit.de, but when I click your username, I can see your posts on lemmy.ml - inside feddit.de, served by feddit.de. The only requests my browser makes to lemmy.ml are for things like avatars.

    The only way to find out how big of a problem it really is is to try, which I think I will do if no one beats me to it.

    7eter,

    i'm gonna like all of those linked reddit posts now!

    nullthegrey,

    I would love an app just like Sync that would work for Lemmy. Jerboa looks fairly close and quite similar just based on my very limited usage.

    edit: clarification

    Lobstronomosity,

    I really hope ljdawson takes a look at this platform. However, in the last few years they have not been posting as many updates and I would not blame them for not starting a new project.

    semperverus,

    I know it's unmaintained, but I really love the UI for "Slide for Reddit" and hope the dev for that picks it back up and maps the data inputs to Lemmy. Keep the UI exactly the same (maybe add tiny icons to the left of sublemmy names but that's it).

    SubArcticTundra,
    @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml avatar

    Agreed. I liked it so much i bought the pro version, shame I could only use it for a few months

    Illithium,

    Oh man, Slide is my go to for years! Such a clean no nonsense experience. Would love to see similar UI.

    saba,

    would be nice to see an app for linux mobile. I run postmarketOS on pinephone and pinetab, currently using gnome shell mobile. Of course, the lemmy website works great on all of my devices, but an app might be nice if I use this more to get notifications.

    I use Tuba for Mastodon and thought I might be able to login to lemmy with it, but I guess not. I can see lemmy posts from there though.

    saba,

    @saba @Archit speaking of seeing the posts from mastodon... Hello me, it's me again!

    Archit,

    Hello man!

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