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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

meh, it's a bit shit if the original dev wants to make his own Lemmy app.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

The infinity dev literally said to fork it because he has no plans to support lemmy himself.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the original developer of Infinity is one of the few people who will try to follow Reddit's new API rules and charge a subscription fee to cover it. At least that was the case a few months ago. Not sure what's currently happening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yep, that's the reason why infinity still works. Seems like they gave the devs who want to continue some time to figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's been very quiet on that front

A lot of people (myself included) are using a modded version of Infinity that allows you to put in your own API key.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't even need to do that, still works without doing anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeh, little worried dev is gonna get a huge bill from Reddit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

He didn't and this is the whole point of open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

He said he would not