It's 100% clear that Reddit is trying to kill off third party apps completely so that they can facefuck you with ads and other garbage. The Apollo dev saw the writing on the wall. I can't blame other app devs for trying to squeeze a bit more livelihood out of this, but hopefully they've realized that they need to move on asap. In the end, it's a great reminder to not build your business on someone else's platform, even if they're "cool".
Manyverse might be good for that. It's P2P social networking that syncs whenever you've got internet.
The entire suite of simple mobile apps is also really good, the Notes app in particular seems useful.
Organic Maps or OsmAnd will let you download maps offline and navigate with just GPS.
Aard 2 will let you browse an entire dump of Wikipedia and Wiktionary.
This, but unironically
I'm bearish on Elementary. Their recent-ish drama where the founders split up doesn't seem good for long-term stability:
And yet countries, given free choice, came running to NATO. Curious 🤔
Trust is a broad term. If you're paranoid, find the package you care about here, and read every line:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs
If you're slightly less paranoid, check the git blame logs for anyone that's touched a package you care about. If you trust all of them, then you're good.
If you're less paranoid than that, assume that someone reasonable is in charge of that repo. You'll get warnings about insecure packages. I've had to Ok a few insecure packages in my configuration.nix, because I assume the packagers are reasonable people. I may yet find out I've made a mistake.
Broadly speaking, I think it's the same model as any other distro. Debian for example has volunteers that package stuff. You can go through the same process above and decide how paranoid you want to be for that as well.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Within a few minutes of watching it I knew it was going to be awesomely bad, and it lived up to my expectations
I've seen this used on other Fediverse posts:
I'll be honest, I have no idea. Sometimes, I get nagged that a package is insecure, and it seems reasonable like an old version of Electron, and then I just sigh and add it to my list of packages to ignore that warning on.
I wonder how hard it will be to just scrape the HTML to accomplish this. It'd be a bit of a cat-and-mouse game, but you'd probably get pretty far just using Google's user agent string. I kind of think Reddit wouldn't actually care about scraping vs API access, since all of Reddit's dumbfuckery seems to be coming from spez panicking due to investor pressure, and I'd bet investors don't have the faintest idea what "scraping" is.
The founders don't like each other on a personal level, and I haven't heard about any updates since then, so until there's new life breathed onto the project somehow, I'm assuming that it's on the back burner at best.
This would tie in nicely to existing library systems. As a plus, if your account ever gets stolen or if you're old and don't understand this whole technology thing, you can talk to a real person. Like the concept of web of trust.
You should check out !worldnews@lemmy.world. Lot fewer tankies being useful idiots there. The magic of the fediverse 🪄
Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a great time killer. There's a Lemmy community over at !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world