Reddit's core product was effectively completed about 12 years ago. Since then they've tried so many different things that their community doesn't give a shit about at best and abhors at worst. This most recent move is a pretty obvious attempt to kill third party clients and force adoption of their vastly inferior native app in order to drive ad revenue. Given that reddit owes literally all of its success to a revolt against digg's anti user policies, let's see how this plays out.
@jpkmensah Need a fediverse-compatible threaded discussion system. Need it bad.
@cstross@wandering.shop @jpkmensah@mas.to there is at least one reddit-alike thing https://join-lemmy.org/
@dakkar @jpkmensah I looked at their web page and oh dear cthulhu what *are* those technologies it runs on? Stuff I've never touched, in some cases never heard of, and obviously unlikely to run on my antiquated colo box, and I just don't have the spoons to adapt to this brave new world …
@cstross @dakkar @jpkmensah unless your antiquated colobox is a SPARCStation old enough to avoid being an LLVM-supported platform it should be able to host a backend.
@dpwiz @cstross @dakkar @jpkmensah posts like this remind me that working on a SPARCstation with a 10 year old version of sunOS is a "privilege" few have in this day and age