General Internet

Seems Meta is having a modicum of success with their Twitter replacement which they've called "Threads". 10,000,000 users from the first day. Would be very odd for the main social media networks to be... Facebook, Facebook 2 (Instagram) Facebook 3 (Threads) All social media ruled by Zuckerberg 🤔 Not sure I like the way the Internet is heading.

In a fantastic example of yet further self-implosion by Twitter, Elon Musk has announced a "temporary" limit on the number of posts users can view per day. Unpaid users can now only view 600 posts per day, before being hit by rate limits. New unpaid users can now only view 300 posts per day. Paid users are able to view 6000 views per day. Ah well, at least he's sorted out doom scrolling 👍!

So, it's official. Reddit has now blocked apps such as Apollo, Boost etc. from using their APIs without copious expense. Thankfully it seems some of these apps are moving over to Lemmy! Including my personal favourite third-party Reddit app, Boost! You can now pre-register for Boost for Lemmy, which should hopefully bring the awesome Boost interface to Lemmy (including this instance). I highly recommend you check it out and pre-register if interested.

Looks like u/spez is in full damage control mode!

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/768790 > I've been working on a proxy that makes it possible for 3rd party Reddit apps to connect to Lemmy with minimal code changes. Ideally all that's needed is to swap out the url for that of the proxy. Naturally it's [open source.](https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy) > > I've got it to a point where basic browsing is possible and works with RedReader and libreddit, but I could use some help testing it with more apps and of course implementing more of the API. > > To test with an app, you need to modify it to connect to the proxy instead of Reddit, which I've done [here](https://github.com/derivator/libreddit) for libreddit, just for testing. The RedReader dev has already [expressed some interest](https://www.reddit.com/r/apihackathon/comments/13yvzg2/rapihackathon_lounge/jnb765j/) in making the API url configurable for the end user. > > If you're interested, come check out [!tafkars@feddit.de](https://feddit.de/c/tafkars) :) >