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Daryl Sun@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish ·
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If Reddit's Paid API plans become reality, free third-party Reddit apps are doomed - gHacks Tech News

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If Reddit's Paid API plans become reality, free third-party Reddit apps are doomed - gHacks Tech News

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Reddit plans to charge for API access later this year, and this could mean the end of all free third-party Reddit apps and several paid apps.
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    Well, this could be Lemmy’s chance. But it will need to be easier for ex-Reddit users to sign up. I know that Lemmy instances have been brigaded, so I guess better moderation tools will need to be created before open registrations happen.

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      Hello from Reddit, the signup was easy enough for me at least

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        I signed up a few days before reddit made the announcement lol to just check lemmy out since I’ve been hearing about it for a while. I had no idea reddit would do this then. I just figured out how to connect to different instances and this is my first comment in a different instance from the one I signed up :D

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          From someone that just joined today, what is an instance?

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            It’s like servers just like the other used said. Each of them has their own guidelines and stuff from what I can tell. Nobody can make a sudden decision for all of the instances like reddit made about restricting their api I think but we can still interact with most instances.

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              Thank you! Excited to figure this all out haha.

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            It’s another word for (Lemmy) server.

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              Oh okay! Thanks!

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          @BlazingFlames6073
          Welcome!
          @Miicat_47

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            Thanks~

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            Thanks for the welcome!

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          Well then this is maybe the first reply from jet another instance - Welcome!

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            Thanks for the welcome

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          welcome!! Here is maybe the first reply from a different instance ;D

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        I agree, it wasn’t bad. Most tech folks won’t struggle. There are some rough edges that could be improved though.

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        Same, no issues so far

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      deleted by creator

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      Self-hosting Lemmy was pretty easy, and federation works well. Many little things can be improved but at least user-facing the big systems work. Moderation might be more difficult, as always with social media…

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