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We left reddit because it killed 3rd party apps that it needs to be functional.
I came here because the experience is already better without 3PA.
Also, this is my inaugural comment on kbin. Hello world!
There are no 3rd party apps yet. But nothing is stopping one from being made. I'm happy to use a web browser to use Kbin until a more rounded App comes along.
Um I don't really understand that thought. Is there an official Lemmy app? What do you think "third party app" means? Posted from Jerboa for Lemmy..
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Joke's on you I'm reading this on jerboa
You could argue that it's third party apps all the way down.
100% this. Don't like the UI on your current server? There's lots of federated options that all look and feel different and still give you access to the same content.
I’m accessing this through Mlem on iOS and I only use Mastodon on Ivory. 3P is pretty much the only way I access media these days.
What’s the homepage address for kbin that you put in to access on Mlem? Kbin.social doesn’t work for me :/
Not OP but you'll see that their user is actually @matzah@lemmy.blahaj.zone so they're a federated user plugging into kbin.social on a lemmy instance. Kbin doesn't work with Mlem. Kbin will need its own 3pa I believe.
There's Jerboa for Android, and I think there's one for iOS too. But people are working on others too I think
Jerboa's great. As a long time RIF user dating back to 2011 well before the official Reddit app existed, Jerboa feels similar enough to RIF that it's an easy transition. I'm hoping this place catches on with enough content to sustain my interest throughout the day.
The reasons we used third-party apps were to avoid ads, bots, big brother. I'm personally looking forward to the fediverse making an app though.
Fine, it just means things go back to the pre-mobile days when you did everything on your PC.
I'm not having a go or anything. I'm loving this whole transition period. I do miss my boost app though! Does jerboa connect to kbin? or just lemmy? I should go find that out for myself. brb. Also realise that others are most likely being worked on.
I read it and post from jebroa. At least latest alpha can do it.
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It's about locking down the API so that they can harvest user personal data with their own app. It's about the open hate from spez, hoffman, admins toward the community.
We didn't leave because we wouldn't have them any longer, we left because we saw it as unfair how third-party developers have been treated and how the content from users was exploited.
Either way, many people are already working on Kbin and Lemmy apps, some of which already exist.
I’d rather take my chances somewhere new than stay in an abusive relationship.
It is ironic, but the great thing about Kbin is that since it's not subject to Reddit's bullshit API policies, we could see some great third party apps for it in the near future. Meanwhile the way things are going on Reddit, people probably aren't going to have a choice but to use the official app come July 1st.
Kbin's got potential. Reddit... not so much.
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