This is actually hilarious. They are so incompetent that they can't even be competently bad at their job!
Sidenote: I also love the pettiness of Internet culture sometimes, creating sites to crawl reddit and Twitter but strip out ads. I don't know if these existed before this whole debacle, but I like to imagine they were created out of sheer spite and not privacy concerns or whatever legitimate reason was probably the real motivation.
From what I've seen others post. It'll only work for a certain amount of "interactions" and then it'll stop. It's as if the app has a certain amount of "old" API requests saved up for you. Once you run out though you'll get errors.
Boost also didn't stop working. People speculate that the API changes aren't in effect yet. Don't celebrate to early. I'm pretty sure they will go through with it.
I'm glad Lj took the Sync for R***** apps off the app store. The only way I would use R***** is through Sync, and I Do Not want to use R***** any more. He's coming out with a Sync for Lemmy so keep your eyes out. You can sign up for a mailing list to be notified when it does release.
What I've been hearing is that Infinite is planning to switch to a paid model and has basically negotiated an extension while they make the code changes necessary to start using the paid API model. But that extension will run out at some point and then to continue using Infinity, you'll have to start paying.
Joey for reddit is also working still. Not sure what's going on, the dev hasn't broken his silence for weeks now so maybe some negotiations going on? Who knows.