Reddit is shutting down RSS and public API access. Blame AI.
mashable.com
RSS has become a "common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse," according to Reddit.

I use RSS to follow comic artists who haven’t made the jump to the fediverse (or don’t otherwise have an RSS feed).
Invite your favorite creators to the fediverse! Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed all have RSS
Tumblr and Webtoon do too!

  • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
    12·
    4 hours ago

    Well, that’s upsetting.

    Edit: and the public API as well, I guess this might be the end of alternative frontends for Reddit (my only way to access Reddit these days)

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      honestly what it’s likely going to end up happening is that developers of the alternative front ends/apps are going to start masquerading as the official Reddit client and then claiming that they don’t have a Reddit account so therefore they haven’t violated any terms of service. We saw that a little bit when the API got locked down in the first place.

      And then leave it as a use at your own risk-style system. Much like how grayjay, tizen and the Revance Project works when you decide to log in your Google account.

      Yeah, it violates policy, however, it’s not on the application because they only provided the means of being able to do it its on the user to decide to actually use said means