Ask HN: Pecedent for all Reddit 3rd party apps redirecting to a competitor? There are a few decent Reddit competitors out there. If all of the services impacted by the Reddit API changes switched to supporting a new singular alternative we might see enough traffic movement for something real to permanently result. |
AFKARS, is the name, if I recall the amusing acronym correctly.
To help search, the acronym was something like "API formerly known as..." And then ended with RS because .
If I find it again I'll post another new reply to you.
Not very sure about the ethics or technical feasibility of that.
It would probably take a fair amount of time to make new versions of these apps for a different service's API.
Also, I don't know about the legality/ethics of it, but it would be really cool to see Reddit Moderators work with someone to mirror reddit submissions to Lemmy. At the very least it would promote further discussion of who owns the content of reddit.com, as curated entirely by volunteer mods.