RIF will be shutting down on June 30, 2023, in response to Reddit Inc’s API changes and their hostile treatment of developers building on their platform.
Well, there’s two down.
About to get real spicy.
EDIT: Here’s the link to the official post via teddit if you dont wanna give Reddit more traffic.
Yup. I’ll be deleting my Reddit account at some point over the next couple of weeks. Without RiF I’ll not be using Reddit at all.
Do it quickly while the scripts to do it still allow you to overwrite your comments.
I don’t love the idea of everyone deleting their comments.
I know Reddit has gone shit. And we should not add more, but I don’t want all the knowledge and tech support fixes it be gone forever. That’s knowledge people can still use.
All your posts and comments will feed the future AI’s. That’s the end goal of reddit: selling their database to different AI’s. Don’t give it for free.
Pretty sure it’s already been scraped. Plus there is the way back machine. But I can’t even count the amount of times I have run in to an issue at work or at home and googled “Problem Reddit” or “item review Reddit” . That info has been invaluable.
Leave Reddit. No more new content. But it’s sad to see such a knowledge base just wiped. It’s hurting the normal people. Reddit has their data. AI has scraped it, or will scrape the history sites of it.
Where does one find these scripts?
It is a python script, you need the praw library. The client id’s are given in your profile after you create an app.
import praw reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id='yourid', client_secret='yoursecret', password='your password', user_agent='deletes my comments', username='your username') redditor = reddit.redditor("your username") for comment in redditor.comments.top(limit=10000): comment.edit("deleted") comment.delete()You can edit and delete everything in the same pass but I prefer to overwrite my comments first and give time for the cache machines to register my new garbage before deleting with another pass.
Here is a sanitizer script that uses nothing but javascript
https://github.com/ryanford/Reddit-History-Sanitizer/blob/master/RedditHistorySanitizer.js
Open a tab, login to your account and go to your account page aka reddit.com/u/usernamehere (you likely need old.reddit version of your account, its all I use). Install tampermonkey and the script into that… It will iterate through your comments, overwrite them, then delete and refresh the page as it goes.
Change the line here:
const age = 7to
const age = -1To delete all comments. You can adjust that number (in days) to how old you it to filter for comments.
I’m done with Reddit til this all blows over one way or the other… I really just need somewhere to park in my day time work hours to be not so isolated (work from home) and keep up on the news and whatnot. I think Reddit things people NEED THEM so bad that they’re willing to take whatever they’re given. I don’t NEED Reddit and am so super happy this is my new spot. Really liking it so far!
Truly a sad time, was using RIF for over a decade and it became reddit to me as I did 90% of my browsing mobile. Hopefully the future is bright on lemmy :D
We need these app developers to make a beautiful app for Lemmy!
Absolutely killer… I’ve been using RiF for nearly a decade now. Guess I’m officially only using Jerboa from now on.
I too am a RIF refugee. It is actually rather nice starting over with a fresh slate picking new groups to subscribe to.
RedditIsFun was my goto years back before switching over to iOS to use Apollo. Even though Apollo is a fantastic app I found RedditIsFun to be my preference. Both apps will be missed, and I hope both developers make something as equivalent because the official Reddit app is just corporate level sad.
I expect all the third party apps to go this way, these are just the first of them to go.
I personally use Infinity and expect that to go the way of the dodo too. While the dev has said they might keep the app around, people would have to provide their own developer API keys which shuts out the vast majority of people by default.
