An open letter to reddit third party developers, migrant and lost users

The API changes has taken effect. The third party apps we love and will miss are now dead. Twitter burns, Reddit is crumbling, Facebook fizzles, Tumblr fades to obscurity and the metaverse failing before it even takes off. The internet we grew to love and live in has suffered a great blow. And while we lament, we grieve and we wish it weren’t so, the inevitable is here. We must face the cards we are dealt with.

But reddit and these social media is not the end. The community is on the move. Off to greener, freer pastures. Off to places where the grip of corporate greed could not touch. There, people from all walks of life try to build something, to begin anew and make homes for themselves.

My voice may be drowned out among many. I may be but one anonymous user on the internet, but it is my hope that my sentiment is shared by many- that I am not alone in wishing, hoping to spread this plea and appeal.

As we migrate away from reddit, I and hopefully many others will join the call, the humble request for developers both old and new to consider building apps and contributing their talents to the fediverse.

Help me, help us, the community, as we trudge through the hill of infancy once more. As the day or two after reddit rolls, we hope to strengthen your resolve as we humbly ask your consideration in developing apps, or contributing to the community by sharing your expertise in UI, code, tech and more.

All this in the hope of building better alternatives, better homes, and a better internet not just for ourselves but our children and their children.

Corny? Yes. But it is my hope to rouse your creative spirit once more. Build the apps you want, teach those who are willing if you want, create the content that you want or provide your inputs in the development of the fediverse as a whole- anything, just so that we might, through a collective united community effort create something greater than what we have, here and now.