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I think the majority of Lemmy users are Reddit refugees, not because they got banned, but because of the Reddit API changes that forced 99% of the third party apps to shut down.
+1 RIP Apollo
Long live Voyager!
Practically a decade of Riddit is Fun...
The API change wasn’t it, it’s when it became clear to me they were selling all my data to Google. I frequented mental health subs, and I started getting Google ads for scams TARGETING people with mental health issues. Just sick.
the recent surges of refugees are from the multi-wave purges last year.
What is API?
Like ELI5 please
It’s a way for apps to interact with reddit. Reddit shut down the API for third party clients so that you’re forced to use their crappy official app instead of much nicer alternatives.
I used a different app to access Reddit and hence couldn’t use it anymore. The official app was a huge downgrade to what I was using before and full of ads. So I - like many others - just left Reddit for good.
the official app is more data mining, and intrusive too. thats probably one of the reason why reddit doesnt want it, because they cant sell your info to GOOGLE, or OPENAI and palintir.
to be precise: not exactly shut down, but made it really expensive
That's like saying you can hack SSH/HTTPS just by calculating out the prime number, it just takes really long time (billion years).
Interface third party software uses to connect
If I have valuable info and I want to share it in a controlled way, I can use an API. If i am an airline, I could spit out a feed that tells you a list of flights and how delayed they are. If im Reddit, I can share posts, comments, etc.
Anyone (in the case of a free API) can take the data the API spits out and make their own app with it. But if you charge for API access, then someone would have to pay to make an app with your information.
Woah there boi, we prefer the name “Reddit Expats”, we no simple refugees or immigrants
Unless this is your job and you're planning to go back to reddit, we're not expats.
Or is this a dog whistle?
Nah, that's always been a sizable chunk. Fediverse will always have the worst of the worst, because it's the easiest to evade bans. And yet there's still multiple people who constantly get accounts banned for ban evasion.
Naw the worst go to bsky or threads, that's where the evil shit is acceptable.