r/LinkedInLunatics • u/Kerbal27 Moderator • Jun 04 '23
Announcement On June 12, r/LinkedinLuantics will be going private as a protest to save 3rd party apps.
/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/16
u/tplusx Jun 04 '23
Thoughts?
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u/Crad999 Jun 04 '23
Disclosure that I'm using a 3rd party app so biased take here.
Good incentive, but I doubt it'll change much, if anything at all. Considering that Reddit announced those API changes with so little heads up shows that they have pretty much set their minds on that topic.
I hope there'll be some good library that replaces API calls with scrapping and most of the apps will be able to switch to it, but I'm not holding my breath. So I'm definitely waiting for a good alternative to Reddit.
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u/cc405 Jun 04 '23
I’m sorry, but “replace the API calls with scraping”? Could you elaborate?
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u/Crad999 Jun 04 '23
You know how when you go to a website, you basically say "hey, provide me with what's under reddit.com" you're presented with a visually appealing website? Underneath that there's a ton of junky-looking "code" that describes what are relations between text boxes, how they look like, Yadda yadda. There's more to it, but that's the gist.
API works basically in the same way, but instead of calling reddit.com you call something like reddit.com/api. The difference here is, that what you're getting with that /api is stripped of all that visual crap and it's basically pure webpage content that's also easily parse-able programmatically.
Reddit is disabling (hiding) API. But it cannot disable reddit.com - I mean, that's their platform. What scraping means is it's basically asking reddit.com to provide the entire website and then trying to strip that "code" that I mentioned of all those things that are unnecessary and leave only the important stuff - so basically scrape what's inside text boxes and leave information about text box size and colour.
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Jun 04 '23
Reddit mods try to not go one power trip, difficulty impossible.
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Jun 05 '23
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Jun 05 '23
Don't care, didn't ask. Every reddit mod is some fat greasy lowlife who thinks that have power because they moderate a sub reddit.
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u/Duydoraemon Jun 06 '23
Confirmed: This guy's wife left him for a reddit mod.
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Jun 06 '23
Redditor tried to not use same joke that he saw on r/teenagers. Difficulty impossible.
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u/Duydoraemon Jun 07 '23
Oh no, it wasn't a joke. Ain't no way someone can have that much hate for a group of people without something drastic happening to them.
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u/TheGuyDoug Jun 05 '23
What does this have to do with the Reddit API situation?
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Jun 06 '23
Because Reddit mods like to think they do something important. The are free workers on a social media site. Half the sub reddit s are moderated by a group of mods. They have over inflated egos and act like they mean something because they have the "ability" to enforce their rules.
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u/Fun_Independent_7529 Jun 04 '23
Did they say why they made this change? Is Reddit in trouble financially? Seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot!
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u/Garfield_and_Simon Jun 05 '23
Without third party apps in general our sub would be starved for content. So many insane sigma work to die hustle culture people are involved in small app start ups.
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u/Patriotjames Jun 04 '23
Agree?