Surviving and thriving beyond Reddit's disruptive API changes

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Reddit has announced significant changes to their API, going into effect on July 1, 2023, that effectively eliminate the use of third-party Reddit mobile apps, web apps, bots, etc. This subreddit is dedicated to discussion of this event, proposed solutions, workarounds, hacks, and alternatives, as well as related jokes and memes.

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Subreddits with related focuses include:

• /r/apihackathon
• /r/ModCoord
• /r/RedditAPIAdvocacy
• /r/Save3rdPartyApps

• /r/compact
• /r/RedditAlternatives
• /r/redditapi

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Third-party Reddit apps include:

• http://alertsforreddit.com/
• /r/baconreader
• /r/BoostForReddit
• /r/FatBirdForReddit
• /r/Infinity_For_Reddit
• /r/JoeyForReddit
• /r/NaraForReddit
• /r/redditnow
• /r/redditmobile
• /r/ReddPlanet
• /r/RedReader
• /r/Relayforreddit
• /r/redditisfun
• /r/SlideforReddit
• https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth
• /r/redditsync

• http://alertsforreddit.com/
• /r/AlienBlue
• /r/apolloapp
• /r/baconreader
• /r/Comet
• /r/DystopiaForReddit
• /r/GetNarwhal
• /r/pager
• /r/redditmobile
• /r/ReddPlanet
• /r/slide_ios

• /r/RedditForBlind
• /r/Luna4Reddit
• /r/toolbox
• /r/RESAnnouncements, /r/RESissues, /r/Enhancement

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Alternative Reddit APIs include:

• https://pullpush-io.github.io/
• /r/pushshift

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Lemmy raises numerous red flags, perhaps the most important of which is that its main developer is a communist opposed to all the fundamental human rights. See here:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/1405wnk/comment/jmv36z5/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/143o5xd/reconsidering_my_support_for_lemmy/
• https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is
• https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

If not Lemmy, then what? See my recommendations here:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/APIcalypse/comments/1429xt2/viable_reddit_replacements/

My friend is studying UI/UX designing and for a project, he chose to redesign reddits UI. Is it possible to use the API for this personal project? If so, can someone help us through this?

Reddit is removing the ability to opt-out of ad personalization based on one's Reddit activity, except in select countries. You may be able to benefit from the exception clause by configuring your country setting appropriately. (This post will be updated with country settings that work for this purpose if and when we get this information.)

To partially mitigate the above, Reddit is introducing settings to exclude certain categories of ads, such as Alcohol, Dating, Gambling, etc.

See details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/

See:

• https://github.com/KhoalaS/Infinity-For-Reddit/issues/5
• https://github.com/KhoalaS/Infinity-For-Reddit/issues/8
• https://reddit.com/r/Infinity_For_Reddit/comments/15pl138/lol_they_got_me_was_using_khoalas_version_of

Official announcement:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/153vw8z/better_late_than_never/

Reddit's /r/place activity is a collaborative art project wherein any Reddit user can place one pixel on a shared white digital canvas every five minutes, ultimately forming a large crowdsourced piece of art.

While users can work alone, it's difficult to get anything substantial done that way. Groups have coordinated in previous /r/place activities to create images promoting various brands or causes. Similar coordination is also expected this time.

Some groups coordinating on protest-themed designs are listed below.

• Some users are coordinating at /r/PlaceAPI.
• The Black Company is coordinating at https://discord.gg/8EqXhUd2qZ.
• The Swarm is coordinating at /r/theswarm and https://discord.gg/theswarm-place.

Edit: The /r/place activity has started. Read the full announcement here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/154qutf/rplace_is_back_again/

Note that the /r/place canvas is only accessible via the official Reddit mobile apps (iOS and Android) and the new Reddit view on web browsers.

It appears that they are using more than one message template, possibly to apply to subreddits under different conditions, or possibly to help track message leaks.

Either way, the messages all say more or less the same thing. Mods are told to stop protesting by designating their subreddits as NSFW and posting NSFW content. They are threatened with demodding and account suspension if they don't comply.

Here's one example message:

This is a final warning for inaccurately labeling your community NSFW which is a
violation of the Mod Code of Conduct rule 2. Your subreddit has not historically been considered NSFW nor would they under our current policies.

Please immediately correct the NSFW labeling on your subreddit. Failure to do so will result in action being taken on your moderator team by the end of this week. This means moderators involved in this activity will be removed from this mod team. Moderators may also be subject to additional actions, e.g., losing the ability to join mod teams in the future.

Lastly, if you suddenly begin to post, or approve content that features sexually explicit content to your community in order to justify the NSFW label, we will immediately remove and permanently suspend moderators who have participated in this action.

More specifically, it is a middleware intended to wrap the APIs of various link-sharing services so that clients coded or forked to be Everything-compatible can access all such services.

In plain terms, Everything will allow you to use just one client to access many Reddit workalikes.

Currently, two open-source Reddit clients (Infinity and Dawn) have been forked, and APIs for three services (Lemmy, Tildes, and Nostr) have been wrapped.

This is a visionary project worth watching, supporting, and contributing to.

• Primary developer: /u/efraimbart
• Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/everything_gripe/
• GitHub: https://github.com/everything-gripe

I cannot find a reliable answer anywhere. But will RSS feeds continue to exist? Because beyond third-party apps that need authenticated content, it would still be possible to continue to post public SFW content without problems by relying on those. Quite easily, indeed, third-party APIs could be created that rely on RSS feeds.

Or will they too soon be shutdown also? Is there any word on this?