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[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 165 points 1 month ago

It really broke my heart. I loved Reddit, I was on it on RiF one my phone when I didn't use my computer. It was great for finding all sorts of new stuff and it was genuinely fun. I'd had a few accounts for like a decade or something, but when they killed the alternate programs I just left and never looked back.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 83 points 1 month ago

I miss RIF, but it's for the better. Lemmy moves too slow for me to doomscroll it forever, so I've started putting my phone down more.

I've started reading books again, even in public, when I'm waiting for someone or something. My mind is slowing down and getting more peaceful.

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[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 38 points 1 month ago

Yeah, i didn't realize how much i relied in Reddit to keep me informed on sports. I barely know what's going in with my favorite teams, let alone the leagues anymore. But i couldn't use anything other than RiF to browse Reddit, so i was done as soon as they axed the third party apps.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is me on many topics. I am so uninformed over the last year.

I love Lemmy, but I’m in a smaller bubble than I was before too. There are a lot less political opinions on here. People are outright hostile to anything that doesn’t fit in a narrow window, and though I mostly agree with what passes through that window, my idea of the world is off because of it. (Example, my wife uses Facebook. We both voted for Harris, but she was certain Trump would win. She was seeing what everyone was saying and I wasn’t. Imagine my surprise when she lost the election so terribly. My little bubble had me convinced he didn’t stand a chance.)

I try occasionally to open Reddit. I know that Lemmy hates stock traders, but Reddit is where you get the best info on that. I’m a stay at home dad who contributes entirely by trading so I need to look at what people are researching from time to time.

I just can’t stand the Reddit app. I can’t stand clicking on ads without realizing it because of how they blend it in.

I can’t stand the kind of greed that led to the decision that killed third party apps.

I miss it, but not bad enough to have a subpar experience on there. That, and I believe in a federated social media future. Tech companies are garbage.

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 138 points 1 month ago
[-] ggppjj@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The writing was on the wall when reddit restricted buying awards in anything but the official app. For some reason, I even have a vivid recollection of where I was in the world when that went down.

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

Back in 2014 RIF was $2 one time purchase for a completely ad free experience. I knew that couldn’t last forever, but I enjoyed the 9 years I did have.

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[-] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

I still have the app on my phone

Just in case

[-] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago
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[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago
[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago

I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it's not all bad. Still miss it though...

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[-] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 74 points 1 month ago
[-] sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I got great news for you!

Apollo exists for the fediverse!

Just look up „voyager“ app for iOS!

I currently just use the webapp (no difference to the app). To „install“ the webapp (iOS) just go to the website and create a shortcut on homescreen.

I love it and probably wouldn’t use lemmy without it!

Edit: I’m not affiliated

Edit2: source code on GitHub

Edit3: it should be available for Android too. Unintentionally made it seem like it’s iOS exclusive

[-] aeharding@vger.social 15 points 1 month ago

FWIW the native app of Voyager definitely has more features than the PWA. Probably most notably haptics… PWA is a good options for those that want it though

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[-] mean_bean279@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

For a lot of the OGs on Reddit it got worse after the whole AMA Victoria thing. That was really when Reddit went downhill. Before that Reddit was amazing with AMAs that kept you refreshing constantly to be live in the chat, and posts that were funny and discussion that felt a bit more meaningful.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Yes! That was when it was so blatent to any die-hard users.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We can look at a million things over the years and say this is when it went wrong. It's all hindsight 20/20. The reality is that we're here now, and, at least for me, I enjoy it here. 💜

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[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 62 points 1 month ago

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

This comment just gave me a little bit of PTSD

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 59 points 1 month ago

For me it's not the app ecosystem. Reddit used to feel like it was a platform run by its community now its very company run and controlled.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago

Thankfully, Boost is just as nice for Lemmy as it was for Reddit.

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[-] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago
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[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago

I pay the yearly subscription for Sync Pro, and I consider it a donation more than anything. I've gotten so many years out of that app, and the developer choosing to repurpose it to Lemmy made my transition here almost seamless from reddit.

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[-] nicomachus@programming.dev 33 points 1 month ago

These days if I wanna check reddit on my phone I just navigate to old.reddit on my phone's browser.

[-] R3D4CT3D@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago

redlib is also a pretty good front end: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

safereddit.com is one i used from time to time. there’s a bunch of other instances, as well

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[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

They’re starting to break functionality though. Sometimes old Reddit doesn’t load comments or work at all on specific subreddits.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

reddit was not great after like 2015. It just completely shit the bed in 2023

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Why has the reddit mascot got chips on its head now?

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago

He's a wild and crazy guy!! Click on this wild and crazy guy for a coupon at McDonald's! Post three reddit posts telling us how great your McDonald's experience was for another chance to win! Woo hoo!

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

It's supposed to be a weird 3D voxel banana for some reason.

[-] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

But why did they blend a very hi-poly reddit alien with a super corny looking voxel banana?? It neither fits nor looks good?

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

I haven't looked at the front page of Reddit since the exodus. I have used it to deshittify Google search results but that's it. I imagine it's absolute garbage by now.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Same. Unfortunately I still need to visit smaller subreddits to get answers on niche topics, but that's my only use for it now. In and out; 10 minute adventure. Not spending all day on the front page like I used to. Any more time than that on the website, and I'll just end up getting into an argument with some Gen Alpha idiot who feels the need to butt in and say something ignorant. 10-15 years ago you'd only see that kind of behavior during summer break. Now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.

I hope that one day I can finally abandon that shithole for good.

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

My gosh that Reddit app icon is horrible. It looks like a terrible meme NFT or something. ...Which was probably the aesthetic they were going for, to be clear.

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[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 month ago

Wtf is on the things head?

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

A pixelated banana. It looks horrible.

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[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

I think the true cutoff for me with Reddit was when they perma banned me for commenting that I should in fact be allowed to punch nazis (pretty sure it was a mass report thing going on)

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[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Why the fuck are they using a 3D voxel banana as a hat for Snoo?

And why does Snoo look AI generated?

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[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

So, did Reddit lose a considerable amount of user base since then or not?

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 50 points 1 month ago

Not really. They're sort of succeeding. They just became profitable, I think, for the first period ever.

Got more users on Lemmy though, including me, so that's a win in my book.

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Are you counting the 14 of us that came over to Lemmy and stayed considerable?

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

From a statistics standpoint, definitely not.

As of Q4 of 2023, reddit claimed 36.4 million logged-in 'daily active' users. An increase from Q3 of 2023 with a count of 34.7 million. Not sure of the accuracy of user counts for lemmy, but good estimate is about 450,000 total users over it's entire lifespan, if every single one of those was a reddit convert, we'd still be a minor blip. I don't know if we have 2024 numbers that are comparable, but most stats indicate that reddit is likely still growing.

Spez predicted what would happen in that protest with almost 100% accuracy and most mods involved didn't follow through and backed down. Some are trying to build something new and that's worth pursuing but we lost that fight.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

Lemmy has 45.1 thousand logged-in daily active users.

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Anyone remember The Button or r/place? That was peak reddit for me since it brought together the entire community. When they stopped doing stuff like that despite the community's love for it is around when I started seeing the writing on the wall that they were ultimately there to make money and couldn't waste engineering hours on "frivolous" community engagement.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago

I have a hard time not personally blaming this on spez, tbh. After he lied about Apollo's dev's (I don't remember which app) phone conversation then they showed up with the damn recording to prove it wrong.

Like, for real, the conversation was something like

  • dev: Or you could just buy me out for $X ha
  • spez: Are you threatening us?
  • dev: What? No, it was just a joke, because you said it costs $X for my app to hit your server
  • spez: oh, okay, I understand you now, I'm sorry.

Later...

  • spez: This dev threatened us.
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