API changes and spez being a cunt
I felt like Reddit had been in decline for a long time. Then there was the API change and the debacle with the third party apps and I realised it was run by someone with no respect for the users, whose first instinct when something doesn’t go according to plan is to lie and blame someone else. I didn’t like that much, so here I am.
Reddit’s site sucks so bad nowadays. You’re bombarded with the “use the app” shit, it only loads like five comments when you first open the page, and you can’t see NSFW stuff without logging in (despite it totally loading then pretending it didn’t).
Firefox + Old Reddit + Oldlander extension allows me to survive on that platform. I mostly cycle between Linux or computing related communities so I was unaffected by corrupt admins. My “engagement” is trying to answer questions and learning rather than discussing so I don’t boycott reddit.
I have used it a few times in the past year, but orders of magnitude less than before.
Look, I agree that the web interface sucks, but that’s kind of the point.
They want you to be so annoyed that you install the app instead.
No comment on whether the app also sucks. I’ve never installed it.
Look, I agree that the web interface sucks, but that’s kind of the point.
They want you to be so annoyed that you install the app instead.
🥃😮💨 Damn. Never looked at it like that.
Spez makesike USD 200m, reddit annual loss is like 180m
Someone please correct me
API changes, I use to use Infinity for Reddit and it was good. Then they killed it effectively.
So I moved to Eternity for Lemmy until support dropped. Now I’m on Voyager.
Good apps design keeps me using a platform and I like the slower pace of Lemmy. I still use reddit for time to time especially for smaller communities. But do my part here.
The day the API key for my 3rd party app expired. I still append most searches with Reddit though.
Reddit API thing. After they announced the changes I was gone. I still use reddit for
porncertain enriching activities but other than that - not really.I got banned lol. Not even a “Okay maybe I shouldn’t have said that” ban, near as I understand it I was just one of the last mod protest holdouts so they were like, “aite fuck this guy”
Content there is artificial. Getting banned for providing uncomfortable historical fact in the “wrong” sub, perma banned.
At some point, makes you wonder who is filtering these discussions.
R/canada and r/worldnews shared high ranking mods who are known white supremacists.
Yeah the mods are there to ensure that conversion does not get derailed.
I have seen same “prompt” reposted on the same sub, until they can get their desired discussion and prior posts removed when convo exhibits any critical thinking.
the june 2023 api protests
Reddit is (no longer) Fun.
Like others, the API change was the final straw. I used Reddit is Fun (RIF) for years, even paid for the full version, because both the official Reddit app and the mobile web interface were terrible. I was also using the old web interface with the Reddit Enhancement Suite, and that went on “maintenance mode”. Overall, Reddit just reached a point that the enshitification was getting to be too much for me to stomach. So, here I am.RIF clan, represent!
I haven’t tried them all, but I’ve been using Boost. What app are you using to recreate that RIF feel?
Connect for Lemmy on my Android phone has worked great! The interface is almost, but not quite, 1:1 with RIF.
It was pretty buggy at launch, but here we are about a year out, and I’m not sure if I remember the what/when the last bug I encountered was. That is to say, the devs for connect are on top of stuff with regular updates which is nice.
I tried connect first, but maybe that’s when it was buggy, because I switched to Boost. I guess there’s nothing wrong with Boost, but sometimes it gets weird interacting with embedded pics and unusual text.
I’ve found Thunder to be a great replacement with some modern, gesture and UX friendly enhancements. Raccoon for Lemmy is pure magic and I highly recommend it as well, but the UX and UI are more modern and has less of that RIF, old-school forum thread scroller vibe.
I started using Summit and it was good enough that I stuck with it.
I feel like Summit is one of the most underrated apps. It’s been solid all around and steadily improving since the start.
Jerboa hits that minimalist sweet spot for me.
I was bored, again
The third party switch. Plus I have found lemmy to be quite refreshing. On Reddit all I did was lurk. But now I actually comment and participate. Because it feels like I’m talking to real people.
Totally agree. Towards the end of my time on reddit I barely interacted at all. Here I feel much more motivated to participate too.
They banned me but I was still able to see the subreddits on Reddit is Fun. When that died I came here. Reddit is gross and other than search results I haven’t used it since.
I used reddit on a mobile browser. At some point they completely blocked that and made it app-only on mobile, and I started looking for an exit. When the API bullshit happened shortly after I found one and took it
When Reddit killed the use of its API for third party clients
They murdered Apollo.
Having also bailed because of Apollo, I kind of wish some of the iOS adjacent communities could get a decent toehold on Lemmy. 90% of the comments in those communities feel like they’re from people who are not subscribed, or never would.
Traffic from All hits Lemmy communities a lot faster and harder than Reddit communities, and that can make it hard for certain communities to get rooted on this platform
Yeah, that’s been my biggest complaint since coming over. People are way too hyper critical about what they think everyone should be doing/using/buying/consuming.
Yeah because the lower amount of content i basically only browse all. And typically don’t visit any communities.
And then called Christian a liar. Spez can smoke a fat one
Greedy pig boy
Yes. This was the end. Hello Lemmy on Voyager.
Voyager is absolutely one of the S-Tier Lemmy apps
Arctic > Voyager
since it’s not a web app, but an actual native iOS app written in Swift. Just like Apollo.Voyager does not collect any data.
Voyager da goat no cap
