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  • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Relay appears to be attempting to reduce API calls and stay open.

    Edit: I just found this patch to use our own API key if Relay gets taken down.

      • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        There are three possibilities.

        1. The developer thinks maybe they can make this work. Maybe there’s a combination of a lower limit of API calls and an upper limit of what people are willing to pay for their app that will let them keep going.
        2. The developer’s lawyer recommended that to sue reddit for destroying their livelihood they would need to demonstrate that they had tries with the new system and it wasn’t feasible in order to make their case stronger
        3. The developer wants to take advantage of the third party landscape being just them now

        Personally I think the first one is the most likely. It seems naive and bound for failure. But its also the least conspiracy theory and doesn’t assume malice

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Doesn’t matter, paid will due shortly after people realize there’s no NSFW content. Not just porn, everything flagged NSFW won’t show up at all. Everything from AMA to TV show discussions will be impacted.

      • exscape@kbin.social
        0·
        2 years ago

        I’m pretty sure reddit said explicitly that everything marked NSFW will not be filtered out.

          • exscape@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            Yeah, that’s fair. And they also said earlier this year that they won’t change anything about the API in at least a few years.

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      There’s also a patch for Sync for reddit, apparently you can use your own API key and app name. I’ll give it a look once sync stops working tomorrow.

        • delmain@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          Well the official app uses a new internal (graphql iirc) API, so that would be nice but it wouldn’t really work as easily as that.