It is ironic, but the great thing about Kbin is that since it’s not subject to Reddit’s bullshit API policies, we could see some great third party apps for it in the near future. Meanwhile the way things are going on Reddit, people probably aren’t going to have a choice but to use the official app come July 1st.

Kbin’s got potential. Reddit… not so much.

It’s about locking down the API so that they can harvest user personal data with their own app. It’s about the open hate from spez, hoffman, admins toward the community.

Fine, it just means things go back to the pre-mobile days when you did everything on your PC.

We didn’t leave because we wouldn’t have them any longer, we left because we saw it as unfair how third-party developers have been treated and how the content from users was exploited.

Either way, many people are already working on Kbin and Lemmy apps, some of which already exist.

The reasons we used third-party apps were to avoid ads, bots, big brother. I’m personally looking forward to the fediverse making an app though.