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Personally I never used any 3rd party reddit clients because I avoid apps in general, and was really used to the old.reddit dating back to 2008 or so. However, I did give up on reddit finally based on the API issue, I had a successful API app based on another site years ago, and the way Splez acted was pretty much the same nonsense we were subjected to. We made something that the site members loved, and were able to eke out a decent living by developing and supporting it. We were always dealing with the site changing things, and the CEO had this attitude like we were interloper parasites making money from his property. We had the rug pulled out from under us multiple times with changes to the site, bugs, performance problems and unannounced feature cancellations. At the same time, their members told us our web app was the best, it enabled them to use the site and filled in huge gaps in the official offerings, and please don't ever change it. So, to see Reddit act that way to API developers was unacceptable. Plus, Lemmy/kbin is way better.
I tend to avoid apps in general too but I did use the Reddit third party apps for privacy on mobile.
I never logged in on RIF and used Firefox focus as my browser when clicking links (essentially private browsing session for each click) to avoid being tracked.
If I wanted to contribute I'd just copy the link and paste into normal Firefox mobile where I was logged in and upvote or comment.
I don't feel the need to take those kinds of steps on lemmy because as you say we're not interlopers and we're here to try to build a better place and honestly it's working really well.
Discussions are civil and thoughtful and even disagreements are learning experiences for the most part.