Hello everyone! Been an SDF member for many years. I’m an open source contributor and software engineer who’s recently decided to cut ties with Reddit. It saddens me in a way because I’ve been a member there under a number of different names since the early days; I joined pretty soon after the demise of Digg. Unfortunately, the site has been in slow decline for some time now and the recent changes have pushed me to my breaking point. As a contributor to open source software, some of which may be impacted by the announced API changes, I can’t continue to use the service in good conscience and have moved my presence over to the SDF Lemmy instance. In addition, I’ve moved my open source contributions away from alternative Reddit clients and am now focusing my spare time on improving Neon Modem.

I look forward to watching this community grow and interest and adoption in federated and open social platforms continue to expand as more commercial platforms drive people away.

  • Frater Mus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I’ve moved my open source contributions away from alternative Reddit clients and am now focusing my spare time on improving Neon Modem.

    Looks interesting. I would very much like a text interface for Lemmy.

    • Elw@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks! Yeah, I was previously working on reviving tuir for reddit but with the API changes I’ve decided that the platform is beginning the process of becoming actively hostile towards third party apps and I’m not interested in developing for a platform like that. Neon Modem isn’t exactly what I would have built for this (The interface feels a bit heavy for my tastes) but it works and I always prefer to try and improve existing projects before starting over from scratch where possible since building something like we had with tuir from the ground up, especially on a platform that will likely see rapid API changes since it’s so new, would be a lot of work.

  • Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I just installed NMO everywhere to try it out! :D Really cool app! Thanks for the great work!!!

  • crimsonRE@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I am also starting to dabble in the various aspects of the Fediverse, having an interesting time. “Neon Modem Overdrive”! Somewhere, William Gibson is smiling…