Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t...
by madeofpalk on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:41PM
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This is kind of more or less what ActivityPub and/or 'Mastodon compatible API' is to be honest.
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t...
by wahnfrieden on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:40PM
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I’m building it with both web and native Mac/iOS, on top of mostly rss for static friendliness. White labeled web and Apple App Store native SwiftUI deployments. Offline friendly
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t...
by TkTech on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @07:44PM
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You just described the ActivityPub universe. There are quite a few servers that are minimal ux or api only, and there are a ton of clients that allow you to use multiple servers on whatever platform you want, with mobile, desktop, and web clients.
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t...
by rovr138 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:15PM
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> So I run 'example.com', but only serve (ex:) content via JSON. Allow competing implementations of the API on AWS, Cloudflare, self-hosted, etc.. Then let UIs like Apollo act like an aggregator and an OIDC provider for their users.
Reddit has something like this, but definitely not as intentional,
- https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.json
- https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.rss
- https://www.reddit.com/r/all/.xml
>The only thing Reddit has going for it IMO is the uniform UI across communities and they seem determined to make that a crappy experience from what I've seen.
Old reddit had stylesheets and they could be very interesting. I still prefer that over the current thing they built.
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t...
by fho on Thursday June 01, 2023 @04:29AM
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Did you just reinvent RSS feeds? :-)
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t...
by busymom0 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:39AM
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If I remember correctly, those end points are going away with the api changes.
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t...
by junon on Thursday June 01, 2023 @06:15AM
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Yes stylesheets were great fun :D https://old.reddit.com/r/ooer
So I run 'example.com', but only serve (ex:) content via JSON. Allow competing implementations of the API on AWS, Cloudflare, self-hosted, etc.. Then let UIs like Apollo act like an aggregator and an OIDC provider for their users.
The API side could moderate their own content and restrict access to UIs that play nice and the UIs could refuse to surface content from API sides that suck.
The only thing Reddit has going for it IMO is the uniform UI across communities and they seem determined to make that a crappy experience from what I've seen.