I’ve been using Reddit is fun on my phone using my account’s API key and it appears the ship has now finally sailed.
I would be curious to know if others are still able to access RIF/other third party clients, or not, so we can get some basic idea if this is a single account or them finally closing the last loophole.
It’s also completely valid to not care at all about Reddit because clearly this is an abusive company and for me personally, I can only see this being beneficial for my mental health.
You could make a burner reddit account, sign up for a developer key, fork the source from RIF, feed it the developer key and keep making free queries to the API with your dev key. Essentially in the final update for RIF the developer made the application just hoover up old.reddit.com and pass it into the reader.
With your Dev key bypassing the cost to browse old.reddit.com the application worked near flawlessly for about 3 years. As someone who setup this zombie app under “my own development and testing” I can confirm it is now dead.
Fun last things the RIF dev gave us before it went out was methods to near completely block data collection about us, I always got the most generic reddit page ever. No algorithm, just essentially /r/all unfiltered it was great.
RIP, guess I’m here more than before now.