as the title says, all of these frontends are dead now, which means that its impossible to view any of the datat that exists on these sites if we dont own an account
is that it? should we just quit using these sites or what?
We don't need reddit, reddit needs us. Just move on and be done with the platform. Just create new habits with Lemmy and reddit should slowly fade away from your mind. If we give alternatives some time, I'm sure great content will emerge and crazy shit like the three days no poop challenge will happen more over time.
With things like Blizzard it's "easy". I don't NEED Diablo 4. I'd like it, but i'm not going to get it out of principle. But Reddit is different. I don't need it as a social media platform or to post myself, but for me, a huge portion of relevant online search results are from reddit. I pretty much run into tech and non-tech issues on a daily basis that are only documented or solved by a years old reddit post. And i'm pretty sad to see that go. Not the social part of reddit, but having so much condensed knowledge in a single place.
And while lemmy is nice it isn't an alternative until i can move instances and subscribe to communities without having a pending status for weeks. You also can't search online for lemmy because of motörhead and because every instance names itself.
I also just quit youtube. Don't use it much so now I'm down to streaming services that won't spam me or are actually worth paying for. There's nothing on YouTube I'd pay to watch. Sorry viva la dirt league, not even you. If they had their own streaming service maybe!
So, which are worth paying for? Netflix hasn't done a good show for me in 2 or 3 years. Prime Videos Interface, search and selection sucks, Paramount has basically only Star Trek for me. Disney plus comes pretty close for me. I love Star Wars and Marvel, and with a child in the house, they have something for everyone. But i'd argue Disney is a morally worse company than google or reddit.
Are they?
Teddit uses his own "Unofficial API" for scrapping.
I've posted here a list of Reddit apps that will continue to work https://lemmy.ml/comment/1054018
Teddit doesn't hold any data. It's "data" was reddit. It's developers think that when you use the free key for 60 requests per second, that it will probably be enough.
Libreddit is trying to use the private Reddit API . Which is currently being used by the official Reddit app.
Running Teddit using a free key seems fairly usable, as long as you are self hosting an instance. Libreddits's approach tries to bring back the old situation
Projects will deviate and find ways to be useful again.
use_reddit_oauth: process.env.USE_REDDIT_OAUTH === 'true' || false, // If false, teddit uses Reddit's public API. If true, you need to have your own Reddit app ID (enter the app ID to the "reddit_app_id" config key).
If I want to still be able to look at the works of my favorite artists, photographers and animators, I will unfortunately have to use it to some extent. Some of them also post on other platforms like pixiv, which allows you to look at content without an account. If there is any other way to look at their content, I do, but some are Twitter exclusive unfortunately.
People will naturally follow their favorite artists and will want to interact with them. If you could somehow convince the creators to post on a free and open alternative, I would not have any problem completely deleting my Twitter account.
In the case of Reddit, I would delete my Reddit account if I knew that all the rock hounders, bug identifiers, mineral photographers and crochet enthusiasts were here.
So, what now? If you are able to, create content that people are interested in and post in exclusively on free and open alternatives. If you have any useful skills or know-how, help people on free and open alternatives with their questions and problems. That is how I got into Twitter and Reddit at least. Maybe it will work for others too.
And most importantly: be nice. Don't downvote people's comments and posts for no reason. Don't leave toxic comments. Say Thank you, give people compliments, provide constructive criticism and try to be helpful.
that's true, I was thinking about self hosting floss alternatives to popular social media sites and make them publicly available for everyone in my country to use, but then I forgot that I dont have money for this
Yes unfortunately Twitter did that yesterday. Hopefully they will be able to scrape the content somehow anyway (apparently Twitter still allows googlebot to crawl their Tweets, so maybe Nitter will just disguise as a googlebot)
I don't think so. Elon posted that that step was only necessary because of heavy scraping for AI purposes. Once they got that sorted out, tweets should be public again and guess Bitter will start working again
We'll live. Long live the fediverse (and old-school forums)
BTW: was there ever or is there any sort of listing for all sorts of hobbyist or thematic forums? The main reason I never used many of them was because I never came across them and admittedly it was pretty easy to do that in reddit just by typing r/doesacommunityforthistopicexist
edit: is there some similar listing for mastodon? I'm having trouble finding a type of technical-oriented crowd.
Twitter rolled out a change requiring you to sign in to see any content at all so now even scraping won't work (unless one were to set up lots of bot accounts and use them to scrape)
Youtube is also blocking invidious and Piped. Frontends are no end solution. The only solution can be the fediverse. But you can use these services with a good ad blocker
NewPipe (on Piped technology) is working fine here? As long as YT isn't behind a login they will keep working. If they do put it behind login, tbf they'll likely find way around it again sooner or later.
I agree that front-ends are always in an endless fight against these Big Tech solutions. But for content not available on other platforms it's an necesity and a better solution than simply an adblocker. And sadly it'll take a long time before content moves away, Average Joe isn't really worried about Google as much as they are about the cons of moving away from YT.
Wie are really lucky newpipe still works, but I think Google will do more. I expect, that Newpipe, Aurora and all other YouTube Frontends are breaking.
If this would happen, the only solution I see to still access these services ist to use Mullvad Browser with u blog origin. And of course you need a goof VPN like mullvad
Infinity also still works for me, but they announced in the recent update, that they are switching to a subscription based platform to keep up with the API changes.
So I just visited reddit for the first time since June 30th because of this post. Opened a private window, typed reddit.com. It loaded fine. What makes you think you need an account to "view any of the datat that exists on" reddit?
While I appreciate the response the logic doesn't check out. You can view the content. You don't need an account unless you want to use your own viewer. This post was misleading.
Given your response other people's answer to just not visit reddit is correct.
That's not quite true. I self-host libreddit and it continues to work fine. The public instances with many users will not work because of the new API limits, but if you run one yourself, it should continue to work.
That said, I've mostly switched over to lemmy and mastodon and haven't had a need to go to reddit or twitter.