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It will suck when they do that, but at least I’ll get whatever time I spend on Reddit back to funnel somewhere else.

As long as the API exists, so can your reddit consumption.

Is there a way to use this on desktop? I’m not sure I care enough about Reddit to worry too much.

Tbh I look forward to the day I can cut that time sink out. I just can’t peel myself away entirely.

If you want to read - sure. Here's an example.

https://api.reddit.com/r/programming

Stellar and Comet are popular clients for MacOS. They're both pretty nice, from what I remember.

Legere for Reddit has been recommended by my colleagues that use Windows but I can't vouch for it personally.

I just use some home cooked python scripts on desktop, but I think there is a gnus.el client somewhere too. On my phone, Red Reader is great. It's on F-droid.org.

But probably not.

I believe they are planning API changes though, with restrictions that make alternative sane apps like Apollo not or barely functional.

I’m giving up Reddit for lent, and would be somewhat pleasantly surprised if they did this while I’m gone. It would make just never, ever using it again much easier.

Maybe the cause and effect is reversed. We're seeing errors because the old reddit is deprecated.