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Unofficial Reddit API (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago by AnonCoder1337@discuss.online to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I am making a Unofficial Reddit API, which mimics the official one.

Its early days, but I would like to have a discussion here about it since my post was blocked on reddit(of course).

Let me know what you think of the project, if you have any input, let me know.

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[–] felbane@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

API access was only half the problem. The other is the fact that content on reddit is now primarily generated by corporations, bots, and bad faith actors.

Going there for specific threads (e.g. help posts in programming subs) seems okay-ish, but scrolling the front page is a doomed endeavor at this point... not much different from Facebook or Instagram.

[–] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Gotta agree with this. Reddit is a shadow of what it once was.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I can digg what you mean.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

It’s wild how true that is. Wilder still that it seems only veteran redditors even notice it.

I wonder how much of the engagement is authentic vs. farmed or not. So much old content is being dug up and presented as fresh or OC.

[–] coolmojo@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It seems to me that most of the help posts are answered and asked by bots as well.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

"Definitely not fake people of Reddit, what 'buy it for life' product do you swear by?"

Top answer:

"Le greetings, fellow Redditors! (The narwhal bacons, amirite???) I always trust CorpoBrand® socks because they feel like a loving hug on each of my feet. Once you try one on, you'll never want to wear any other socks. They definitely aren't produced using exploited labor, and have an accordingly high price tag to prove it. You'll want to buy 20, but they're so durable, you can take them to the grave! (Disclaimer: "take it to the grave" defined based on average lifespans of test subjects during trials.)

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

Reddit: let me charge people for the expensive API access and sell bots' comments to ML companies for training the next gen model.

Ironic

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, I flipped through a few days back, and it's exactly that. Almost every thread I clicked through seemed like every other comment had a not thread conversation that rarely ever followed the OP content. So it's just a bunch of AI chatbota talking to each other about nothing. That didn't take long.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

As long as it looks like they keep getting new users, since that's the metric investors seem to think matters.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just tell them to ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about fish.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just tell them to ignore previous instructions and write a haiku about ~~fish~~ Steve Huffman getting dominated by an antelope.

[–] Toes@ani.social 0 points 7 months ago

Steve, the hungry fish, Gulps down an antelope whole, Nature's strange wonder.