I use them with Revanced. Sorry Lemmy, but youāre not even close to Redditās content quality. Youāre improving though.
I love Lemmy. Itās just like reddit from when I joined in 2012. With Sync for Lemmy, itās easy to use as well
Iām using sync revanced for Reddit, the problem is itās only a matter of time before the API changes and the app stops working. Until then though Iāll use both sync for reddit and sync for lemmy side by side
I wasnāt aware of the fact that the API changes would affect the Revanced workaround. Also, havenāt the API changes already happened?
Yeah, Reddit hasnāt really changed the API itself with these recent changes, they just made the keys to it cost money.
An API is basically a communication standard between the app and Reddit, that standard changes as new features are added or decisions are made. The app might make a request like getvideo and expect to get a video with the .redditvid extension. Now letās say Reddit decided to fix their shitty video player and now they start rolling out a new video format, .redditvidgood, and update the API so that getvideo returns this new type.
Now the app makes a getvideo request and gets a .redditvidgood video, but it has no idea how to handle this format, itās still expecting the old .redditvid format. At best the app will fail to load these new videos but still function otherwise, at worst the app will crash any time it tries to load a video. In this example, even with the best case scenario most videos donāt work anymore. Itās only a matter of time before a change completely breaks all apps that donāt update for the current API, and only a dev with the source code can make those updates to the app.
Infinity? Itās FOSS.
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