Geddit is an open-source, Reddit client for Android without using their API. Many devs are working smart to bring us the content without API. Nitter is back, now Geddit.🍻
Fuck Reddit, and fuck u/spez.
That’s good to know, but Reddit is a passed station here.
Staying here, nise and cosy.
That’s cool and everything, but if it’s scraping the site they’ll block that shit straight away, they’ve already said as much and scraper blocking is relatively easy to do these days.
Good luck though.
i experimented the last 1-2 weeks with a similiar concept and coded my own client for reddit… and can say… yes…reddit extremly hard limits you. they even banned my ip when i open reddit in a browser on the same device. similiar app named “Stealth” gets your ip banned by making requests in a second…its just not a good way to bypass reddits thirdparty api shit.
https://github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app
appears to be an RSS feed reader built for Reddit, rather than just scraping the site. This’ll likely last quite a long time, I don’t see Reddit killing their rss functionality anytime soon.
Interesting, what does Reddit even use an RSS feed for? I’m trying to figure out why they’d even have that still going today and coming up empty.
RSS users tend to be valuable customers as once they’ve subscribed they rarely leave. Users tend to use aggregators that provide high density feeds covering large amounts of content. Once they’ve subscribed you, as a content producer, will likely remain in their field of view for years to come. Even if they only end up interacting with your content a couple times a month it contributes to your monthly user stats and keeps driving those ad revenues with near zero retention costs.
It’s also a very efficient way for making your content visible to search engines and crawlers. If you have an RSS feed it’s pretty much guaranteed that Google, Bing, et. al. are consuming it which can lead to more rapid inclusion of new content in search results.
Cool, thanks for explaining.
I doubt they’d be bothered too much by impacting the first part though, they’ve shown to be entirely willing to lose userbase in order to force their app, so retention probably doesn’t interest them there if people start using the RSS feed as a 3rd party app.
I think the crux of it would come more down to whether or not they want to deal with the potential SEO hit that could come from getting rid of it.
Should be interesting to watch how they handle it, at any rate.
On a personal note, I’m pretty much done with Reddit after how they’ve acted recently, but watching them running around in the road, trying to play with the busses is genuinely fascinating.
This is cool and all, but I think that people that are already here, are mostly not thinking about going back. But that’s just my opinion.
It’s your opinion. And it’s right.
Okay, I will only go use Reddit when i require information that will be available there and I can’t find it anywhere else.
Lemmy has been nice to me, I find this a better place.
Cool, I will never use it
But why though?
You like wallowing in cesspits of corporate greed and bots?
I like not being on Reddit. Why don’t people just let it go?
Because the cold bothers them. They can’t let go 😞
But for real, kbin/Lemmy fills the void Reddit used to fill for me. Some magazines need to grow or even get started, but I’m fine. And I don’t really understand how people get confused over the federation. After a day or two it was fine and I was at home.
But what would be the point? Reddit is dead, long live Lemmy.
I have full made the jump from Reddit to Lemmy and the Fediverse. However, Reddit still contains so much valuable information. This client will let you access past posts without having to log in or use the official app, and I’m glad to have it available.
i already tried a similiar client that does the same and reddit bans your ip after a short time. they HUGELY rate limit you for doing this. also i try to get away from reddit… reddit destroys itself currently more and more so fuck them. no thanks.
I looked at the Nitter app in F-Droid, says “the source code is no longer available, no updates possible”. Is the app good?
Fuck no
Neat!! Always good to see innovation and a project built to scratch an itch! Looking forward to seeing where it goes!
