Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.
The app is named joey but the icon is of a koala??? 🤔
Although commonly known as a baby kangaroo, a joey is basically a baby marsupial. So that can include koala, opossum, wombat, etc.
TIL
And baby Monotremes (Echidna, Platypus) are called Puggles.
And then there’s eutherians (placental mammals)
Which have all sorts of names for their bubbies. Kits, kittens, cubs, pups, lambs, foals, kids, piglets… etc, etc.
I’ll bet Reddit would allow a 3rd party client that supported ONLY old phones / OSes that they themselves have decided to drop.
I would bet against that, not enough userbase to be worth them even concidering the exception.
They wouldn’t do it to retain the small audience. They would do it so they could safely deprecate even more old devices. It makes life easier on the app engineers when they can focus on fewer devices and OSes. Less testing. You can use more modern libraries without a bunch of “if” forks. Sometimes the oldest 2% of your users can represent 15% of your effort. But 2% of users is a lot to drop.
That’s where the 3rd party app would come in. It would quiet complaints and allow content contributors to be retained, without any maintenance. Basically it would de-risk some moves like only supporting phones from the last 4 years, and nothing older.
I’ll bet they wouldn’t.
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Connect and Liftoff are by far my favorites.
Thunder and wefwef are also pretty good. I really like the gesture controls on them though, so that may be biasing me a bit.
I couldn’t figure out how to make a top level comment in liftoff. It was very visually appealing though
Top level as in a new comment? There’s a floating button on the bottom right
Hm. Doesn’t show for me. Maybe I need to reinstall
I did reinstall it. It works perfect now and looks gorgeous and doesn’t run into many errors. I also noticed via Exodus that it asks for fewer permissions than any other lemmy app
Is this an app rec for tablets specifically, or just Lemmy apps in general?
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Thunder is amazing
Honestly Reddit doesn’t infuriate me anymore. I haven’t been on reddit for 2 weeks now and I no longer feel the urge to check that site. I expect I’ll still end up there occasionally when I search for stuff, but gone are the days when I spend an hour or two every night on reddit.
I still get a little heartbroken seeing the Apollo icon on my dock. 😭
I couldn’t bring myself to uninstall it completely so I just removed it from my Home Screen, it can live out its retirement in the app library
The only sub I go to now is my local city’s subreddit for a good stream of local news and happenings. That hasn’t migrated to Lemmy yet and I don’t want to moderate it so I’m not making it here lol
There’s still quite a few subreddits I miss. Plus the larger community. Some communities are here, but they’re dead with no users, and I don’t really have what to contribute.
I wanted to try listing all of them, but I realized there’s like 40 of them.
Mostly, I miss r/batteries, r/ElectroBOOM, r/linuxmint, r/ManjaroLinux, r/LinuxMasterrace, r/SpaceXMasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/computers, r/laptops, r/amateursatellites, r/whatisthisthing and r/RTLSDR which also had cool people like developer of noaa-apt and Ryzerth, the developer of SDR++, plus many more.
Edit: Oh, how could I forget dereksgc, another cool guy who puts out lots of useful info.I can leave the larger community, but I do miss a couple subreddits.
The good thing about the Reddit before the dark times of 3 weeks ago, was that it had a large enough user graph that there were enough people with niche interests to have an active community. Facebook also has this critical user graph.
The good thing about ActivityPub based communities is that there is the potential to have much larger federated user graphs than the individual closed business-based platforms.
It’ll come with time.
Yes that’s the only thing I would miss from Reddit. The wealth of knowledge that lives on their servers and the community until they more over here
Things will slowly grow if we all stick with Lemmy though. It’s really just a matter of time until it reaches a critical mass.
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Same for me. When RIF stopped working I went into Lemmy and haven’t went on Reddit since. The FOMO I thought I’d get isn’t there because I’m active and welcome here. I have people to connect with, and that’s what I really only wanted out of a social site like this.
Why would I go on bad lemmy?
That’s actually been my experience as well lol.
I did actually deliberately jump on reddit on desktop recently, just to check on a few things and see how the protests were going.
There wasn’t really anything informative on the front page that hadn’t already been posted here. The quality of posts actually seemed worse overall
The quality of the posts being worse makes sense, I’m guessing some of the Reddit power users moved here and they were generating the majority of quality OC on Reddit.
I also feel like it’s become more right wing. Or at least now that some people have left, the balance has shifted further to the right. I went on yesterday, and r/WhitePeopleTwitter, a fairly left wing sub, is now having a lot of Republicans. Really killed my desire to go back. It was something I know a lot of people predicted would happen, but still sad in a way to see.
Edit: Also the fact that the main niche subs I went to are dead. They used to be pretty active, but since they reopened, a lot of users were not happy. So now it’s a post every few days. I think one of the subs just got completely deleted. Sadly they’re not as active here.
I opened Reddit, saw no bean posts so I immediately closed it.
more like c/mildlyRelieved
They detected that you must be too poor to be worth supporting. It’s simple economics. They needed to be able to balance out the incredible infrastructure costs you were bound to incur.
You’re probably better off.
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I’m gonna miss Joey, spent a lot of time scrolling. I’m still using it for now until the API changes kick in, then I’m probably gone from Reddit for good after I sort through the saved content that I actually care about.
What is this redit you are talking about? I don’t know what that is.
never knew her
reddit the web, being ghosted by previous redditor
Maybe you can use an earlier version?
You dodged a bullet homie.
Did you think they cared about accessibility?
Probably for the best.
I may use Reddit through the browser on occasion while googling (but without logging in). My Reddit activity has dropped 99%. The 1% is lurking the World News thread to follow Ukraine war updates while logged out.
Exactly what I’m doing. That and the UkraineConflict subreddit. Have to use old subdomain to get in without logging in. I won’t comment anymore.
Well, the official Lemmy App also requires Android 8+. Again, no support for my not so old phone…
did you look if there is lineageOS or another custom ROM, who is based on a newer android?
Not so old? Android 8 was released 5 years ago
Might be old in modern times, but I dont want to have to buy a new phone every 5 years. Especially if it is still working very well…
Also OP made the point that the official Reddit App requires Android 8+, so it’s the same thing
Android 8 came out 6 years ago. And if your device is locked to Android 8 that means it probably shipped with 6 or 7 which means it’s a 7 or 8 year old phone at this point. I have trouble believing a 6-8 year old android phone is still working very well.
You are right, it is from 2017. Beside not being able to use Android 8+ I have no issues with it
Not to rag on you, but do consider security risks associated with using an unsupported OS. Take care.
Yes, but Lemmy block unofficial apps that may support your phone.
Is there an official app for Lemmy? Jerboa is popular, but I don’t think it’s official. Connect for Lemmy supports Android 4.4+.
I was speaking about Jerboa.
Don’t think that’s official. It was just one of the only ones about when people started migrating.
