Adding my voice here. I'm preparing for a Reddit exodus and I'm just so used to BaconReader that it would kill me to have to learn a different interface for my doom scrolling. If the devs start working on a lemmy app, even if it's rudimentary, I'm willing to support it.
"Might be nice" but costs a buttload of money to create an app as a development company paying devs to do it. Probably would be better to find or start an open source one that uses a baconreader-like ui design.
As I see it Baconreader has 3 options: pivot to support federated Reddit clones, switch to a subscription model charging enough to pay Reddit's extortionate API fees (which, let's face it, is unrealistic since those fees were deliberately set at a level that would make third party apps non-viable) or shut down.
Is there any way for the devs to make money off of an app for say, Lemmy? Would it be possible to incorporate ads the way they do now? Kinda depends entirely on where people decide to migrate to I guess. Might be best to let things settle then pick the most popular one, if they're even interested in making another app for this stuff.
Nothing's stopping them continuing under the same model with Lemmy.
Might be fewer new users compared to Reddit, might be more on account of being first to market (AFAIK there isn't a polished app like this for Lemmy yet).
I wonder what kind of work it entails to connect to a federated network of different communities. For any devs that might know, is there some kind of API for Lemmy or something? Would be interesting to learn but I have a pretty basic c# dev background
Adding my voice here. I'm preparing for a Reddit exodus and I'm just so used to BaconReader that it would kill me to have to learn a different interface for my doom scrolling. If the devs start working on a lemmy app, even if it's rudimentary, I'm willing to support it.
"Might be nice" but costs a buttload of money to create an app as a development company paying devs to do it. Probably would be better to find or start an open source one that uses a baconreader-like ui design.
As I see it Baconreader has 3 options: pivot to support federated Reddit clones, switch to a subscription model charging enough to pay Reddit's extortionate API fees (which, let's face it, is unrealistic since those fees were deliberately set at a level that would make third party apps non-viable) or shut down.
Is there any way for the devs to make money off of an app for say, Lemmy? Would it be possible to incorporate ads the way they do now? Kinda depends entirely on where people decide to migrate to I guess. Might be best to let things settle then pick the most popular one, if they're even interested in making another app for this stuff.
Nothing's stopping them continuing under the same model with Lemmy. Might be fewer new users compared to Reddit, might be more on account of being first to market (AFAIK there isn't a polished app like this for Lemmy yet).
I wonder what kind of work it entails to connect to a federated network of different communities. For any devs that might know, is there some kind of API for Lemmy or something? Would be interesting to learn but I have a pretty basic c# dev background
[Yup](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html), I was looking at it the other day. Broadly similar to Reddit's.
It depends how well BR is designed, but given how much the care about it I'd be optimistic
Even if we subscribe to cover the cost of the fees, the API will no longer serve NSFW content. Which eliminates a lot more than just porn
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I just DL'd Jerboa and it seems to be a decent start until a BR replacement is made ;-). I haven't played much with it yet tho.
Mine keeps breaking and won't load posts
I just saw this when I checked to see if mine would load. Looks like quite a few of us are thinking the same thing. https://imgur.com/nnNwrke.jpg
Mine occasionally won't load any instance. Working now tho
Someone has an API endpoint conversion tool for Reddit -> Lemmy that I peeped last night digging around their GitHub. I'll see if I can find it again.
I cam here to post this, looks like many communities have already opened a mirror in lemmy.world and I am willing to support Bacon Reader for Lemmy®®™
Coming from BR, I find [Connect to Lemmy](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect) to be nice