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I miss RiF sometimes :[
Same… Sync is my life now
I still have the app on my phone
Just in case
Right after S2 of Firefly
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
I have to ask, what’s up with those quotation marks?
Voyager because its a name of a thing and install because the Webapp is not really installed, it’s just a bookmark in safari that’s opened without the toolbars etc
I meant the quotation mark characters themselves. Is it a regional thing that I’m not familiar with as a dumb American? It’s just that I usually see them written like “this” instead of „this“.
I never noticed… I use English and German keyboard, and my iOS devie does both of them like „this“. Maybe it’s a setting
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve only recently made the switch to Lemmy, and for what it’s worth, I’ve been using Apollo for Reddit the entire time. It’s fairly easy to set up if you check out r/sideloaded or r/apolloapp over on Reddit. Might make your money-job a bit less frustrating to work on :)
Heeeey! Thank you. I’ll look into that.
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.
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.
I went and looked last night out of curiosity, and found absolutely vile racism on r/Canada talking about immigration. It was just shy of "deport them all’ in the comments.
Was it racist or did you just not like their opinion
Do you understand how housing shortage with price gouging, wage suppression and deteriorating social services will result in people not like immigrations?
Sounds like the regime fucked up and people expressing their political opinion on the issue.
But nahh… Just call people racist 🤡
They were racist and all around bigots in that sub reddit years before the housing issues, seems like you are defending shitty people.
Even the smaller subreddits on niche topics seem to be dying. I suppose the lost good will (and loss of third party mod tools, or course) caused many of the superusers to leave.
Their reputation and their front page are both in the trash. It’s not a fun website to be on anymore.
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.
Never used any of that clients always used offical New Reddit web client even on mobile. I moved to Lemmy because it’s FOSS. That’s all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
reddit was not great after like 2015. It just completely shit the bed in 2023
What I used before leaving: copypasta
(A bot allowed to replace all comments with an edit to avoid being farmed by reddit or sold to AI)
I edited all my comments, then deleted all of my comments, then deleted my account and two-factor. Then Reddit restored my account and all it’s comments and I can’t remove them again cause no two-factor 🙃
Hence, the copy-pasta~
I did the same. They unedited all of my comments, lol.
rif gang
Now: RedditIsFucked
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?
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.
Most vocal users are a minority. Commenters already are what, 1% of users? 90-9-1
I don’t really understand why reddit pretty much succeeded in killing off all other forums. People love the format of reddit so much that even after killing off all the supporting apps it hasn’t really done much at all to cause people to go back to traditional forums. I’ve personally always found reddit far worse than a traditional forum because of the like system. This place has it as well, although I’m not sure how it compares to reddit’s in terms of algorithm.
Traditional forums did not have it. You just saw posts sequentially. There was also no character limit. This meant on traditional forums everyone’s position was not only presented equally but you could also go into as much detail as you wanted. If the topic is complex you could write basically an essay if you wanted, which in reddit you have to break up into multiple posts. Reddit’s like system also tends to facilitate echo chambers because popular opinions show up first while unpopular opinions show up last and can even be hidden, and it encourages people to misrepresent you and not act in good faith because they’re looking for an “own” to farm likes rather than a real discussion.
Sure, there might be sometimes when a person’s opinion is so out there and disingenuous you don’t even want to take it seriously and have a real discussion, but I’ve never once in my entire history of using reddit had a decent conversation with someone. Even things as benign as like /r/nintendo, I say I enjoyed a game and I got a bunch of people shitting on me calling me a bad person for liking a particular game. No matter how benign and non-serious the topic is, people always find ways to turn it into an attack to “own” you to farm upvotes.
This meant on traditional forums everyone’s position was not only presented equally
No, the earlier web forums based on phpbb or vbulletin or whatever prioritized the most recent posts. That means that plenty of good content was drowned out by fast moving threads, and threads were sorted by most recent activity, which would allow some threads to fall off quickly unless “bumped.”
It was inherently limited in scale. The votes made such a difference for the forums that implemented it (slashdot, hacker news, eventually reddit) that it could make the more popular stuff more visible, rather than the most recent stuff more visible. And whatever the local site culture was could prioritize the characteristics that were popular in that particular place. That’s why tech support almost entirely switched to reddit or similar places, because the helpfulness of a comment was generally what drove its popularity.
And the biggest problem with the older forums was that they didn’t allow for threading. Any particular comment can spawn its own discussion without taking the rest of the thread off on that tangent.
tbh forums are annoying af. Perhaps I’m too used to modern day intuitive UI but they all seem to assume you know your way around. Btw if you want that ‘community’ feeling join a discord server. They’re great! I’ve been particularly interested in a twitch streamer/YouTuber "dougdoug"s server for about a year but it gets a tad too fast sometimes haha
I’m still using boost. Both for lemmy and reddit.
Wow, just tried opening boost (for reddit) and it actually loaded
