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.
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.
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.
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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This comment just gave me a little bit of PTSD
2023? I was thinking 2013.
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.
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.
Thankfully, Boost is just as nice for Lemmy as it was for Reddit.
And eternity is just as nice as Infinity :)
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.
Yes! That was when it was so blatent to any die-hard users.
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. 💜
I miss RiF sometimes :[
Same… Sync is my life now
Jerboa is similar enough in my head. Though, if I could time travel and get the 2023 experience then I might see that I’m misremembering.
I was hoping RiF’s dev would make an app for Lemmy. They did make one for Tildes though called three cheers for Tildes. I believe their username is talklittle.
I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…
Yeah Voyager needs more polish. I have found Mlem to be more spiritual of the successor in terms of ui design.
Interesting. Just looked at Mlem for a minute and for some reason the Voyager UI agrees with me more.
The funny thing is Mlem offers higher contrast between different UI elements yet it is easier for me to differentiate between those elements in the lower contrast way that Voyager presents them.
RIP RiF.
I still have the app on my phone
Just in case
Me too. I click a reddit link, and the app opens to remind me
Right after S2 of Firefly
I never watched the last episode of season 1, I’m allowing myself the delusion that for me, it didn’t end
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.
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.
Big RIP. Used to go on that site quite a lot back when it still had good clients
Why has the reddit mascot got chips on its head now?
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!
It’s supposed to be a weird 3D voxel banana for some reason.
But why did they blend a very hi-poly reddit alien with a super corny looking voxel banana?? It neither fits nor looks good?
Because it’s provocative
It gets the people going.
Ball so hard!
They went back to skeuomorphic?
Ah it’s not a heavily oxygenated Mohawk from an 80s bad guy, I’m disappointed
apollo was so nice to use
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
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
oh wow, i had no idea! thanks for the info!
Good news! You can now sideload it
😭 Gone but not forgotten.
These days if I wanna check reddit on my phone I just navigate to old.reddit on my phone’s browser.
They’re starting to break functionality though. Sometimes old Reddit doesn’t load comments or work at all on specific subreddits.
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
Wow this is fucking cool! Thanks man!
You might appreciate Farside.link which catalogues all kinds of privacy-protecting front ends, and lets you bookmark a randomizer to automatically choose one for any service.
If you’re just lurking, RDX is a great alternative. An actual thick client and not a web app. I don’t know how the dev gets it to work but it’s great for when I just want to check my city’s sub.
I use Stealth for any niche groups over there that I still follow, and then if I really want to comment, I’ll login with old.reddit on my browser.
RIP I have an iPhone so I don’t get to use anything cool
So, did Reddit lose a considerable amount of user base since then or not?
Are you counting the 14 of us that came over to Lemmy and stayed considerable?
There are dozens of us!
There must be quite a few dozen of us!
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.
Yes, Reddit is way more mainstream now than ever. My grandparents talk about it.
It’s occasionally mentioned in movies, series and animation.
Ngl, i was expecting many more people to leave Reddit. The outrage was almost palpable. Big subreddits going private and all.
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.
I do have to wonder how many of those millions of users are bots. Browsing /r/all, you can find plenty of weird pseudopornographic subreddits like /r/ReallyGorgeous, which are populated by literally thousands of bots upvoting and commenting on fake selfies posted by the most obviously stolen accounts. Report these accounts all you want, the admins don’t care.
Lol, I blacked out my sub and then never returned. Not sure what happened to it, but reddit is so god awful I don’t even bother trying to check.
Oh it’s really simple. You will have been removed as a moderator for defacing Reddit content. Reddit will then ban you. Aunt reinstate their authority and make sure that their user base has full access to their content . Remember next time to not be a pesky little shit . How dare you try to block spaz and his followers from accessing content that you created but they own . /S Ask me how I know
Lemmy has 45.1 thousand logged-in daily active users.
Im one :)
Depends on what you mean by that. A small fraction left but it was sizable enough for Lemmy to become my home.
Wtf is on the things head?
A pixelated banana. It looks horrible.
I bet it was AI generated.
Spez is just another lame techbro following Elon Musk
Is it a c/bananaforscale banana? Because it’s not a good one
Nowadays I barely use Reddit, but sometimes you end up forced to use an app, so I use Infinity with a custom API key
That works until reddit.old is killed. That will be next thing to go
I’m still using boost. Both for lemmy and reddit.
Wow, just tried opening boost (for reddit) and it actually loaded
You have to have admin on a subreddit i believe. I just made my own and then it works.
