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Comment by dom96 | Hacker News Reader

I am still somewhat shocked that they went through with this.

I built a Reddit API[1] alternative as a form of protest, they responded by blocking my personal Reddit account. Very sad what Reddit has become.

1 - https://api.reddiw.com

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Like a lot of news today, it’s simultaneously shocking and not surprising. It’s tough to keep a positive attitude. Every week it seem like things that, against the odds turned out to be good, are being deliberately torn down so that a few rich people can get slightly richer. Greed is killing everything nice, and nobody has both the power and willingness to stop it.

More and more I find myself on the side that greed and those who egregiously practice it, need to be excised from humanity with extreme prejudice. Greed should be a short-lived terminal illness.

Will you release the code for this?

I think so. Though it’s not nearly as sophisticated as you might think.

Are you interested in hosting an instance of it?

Having an equivalent of Nitter and Invidious would be amazing! I would love to host an instance of this API, you should publish your code!

Apps like RedReader will be impossible to modify and use in a libre manner without a replacement API implementation like this.

> Having an equivalent of Nitter and Invidious would be amazing!

Something like https://teddit.net/ ?

Have you tried https://libreddit.de ? It can also be self-hosted

What will they do if many people do. Make the site inaccessible without signing in?

Even LinkedIn has not gone quite this far, usually the first page is viewable without logging in.

They banned your personal account?!

Do you have the ability to edit or access your old comments? Is it a shadowban, read-only, or a full block?

They “permanently suspended” it. It appears I have read-only access to my comments/subreddits but cannot comment/upvote/access my subreddits moderator tools.

It's a completely different approach, but maybe you can do web view shenanigans to create an API bridge on devices.

Why work around it? If they want to kill their service, I'd rather watch it happen with a smile than desperately try to save them.

Because reddit is a social phenomenon, not a technological one.

It's both and the technological element is laughably easy to recreate. The social element takes time but Reddit never had any meaningful control over that anyway.

Reddit will be able detect that easily.

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