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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.
I wish someone would patch sync for reddit
It’s been patched for ages. I’ve certainly been using it daily since around August or September of 2023 including all day today.
Revanced is your friend
I’ve been using it since the purge just fine. Revanced. Just make sure to get the 2nd last sync version, as the latest one has a nag that you can’t disable.
I know about sync for Lemmy, just wondering if anyone figured out how to reuse the old app
Sync for Lemmy is amazing.
I miss bacon reader =[
I miss bacon reader too … sobs
I miss RiF sometimes :[
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.
On the toilet?
Close! I was supposed to be working at the time.
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
RIP RiF.
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.
Jerboa was real bad back then. Like, bad enough that I shelled out cash money to purchase Sync for Lemmy, which was another different old reddit front-end that now pivoted to Lemmy.
Overall though I’m now actually a big fan of Sync. It’s a good app. Does all that it needs to and not much more.
I still have the app on my phone
Just in case
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
Oh man, I’m jealous. I uninstalled the app, but I’m pretty sure you can look up workarounds to make the app still work if you have it on your phone.
ReVanced has a project for it. It’s janky, but it works. For now.
Me too. I click a reddit link, and the app opens to remind me
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.
Same… Sync is my life now
I’m lucky, Boost was my app of choice. Now I just use it for Lemmy instead.
Which is how I learned about Lemmy. I opened Boost one day and was like… Wait, something’s off. : )
Its so shit even Elon won’t buy it.
Reddit is now run by people ugly 🫏 faces. 🤣
what
The comment you are replying has “ass” censored with a 🫏.
This is the first time I am seeing ass being censored in such manner. The more I ponder why the commenter did it, the funnier it gets – regardless of their intention.
i thought the emoji was an insect, perhaps a mozzie (due to poor eye’s sight). knowing now its a donkey (also called an ‘ass’) i dont think its as funny.
rif gang
Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it’s probably better that I don’t spend as much time online.
Reddit made it unusable on mobile again.
I use Firefox + unlock, but naturally it’s just slower and less convenient than rif.
I use reddit a lot less now. Practically don’t use it on mobile as I noticed.
Oldreddit + Oldlander extension is way more convenient on mobile browser.
I miss Apollo. It was just so good.
I still use it to follow the war in Ukraine, but that’s it. It can burn once the Russians are defeated.
Apart from going there through a search engine I’ve never used Reddit again since they killed the API.
I use reddit for special interests. There are some subreddits which are unmatched sources in terms of expertise. Be it a game I am currently obsessed by or serious job related discussions about the newest embedded tech…
It’s sooo hard to get away from games. You’ve either got Discord which is a shit show, or reddit which is an ad riddled shit show, but at least the comment and discussions are relatively structured.
Now: RedditIsFucked
I still have it on my phone n open it’s corpse all the time out of habit when looking for sync. I should uninstall it.
I have the client for animelab which hasn’t existed since they got absorbed into crunchyroll. Maybe I’m just holding a grudge but I think there’s value in remembering what they took from you.
Relay for Reddit will always be my favorite. It had a nice tablet mode and the “swipe to do everything” interface was nice.
I have yet to find a decent replacement for it. Voyager is alright but I swear that it was designed to maximize unintentional button presses. It’s so easy to accidentally go to the community or the user’s profile when I just wanted to click on the post. And I can’t even count the number of times I accidentally collapsed a comment when I was trying to edit or upvote it instead. This is why the swiping interface was so nice. Made it almost impossible to unintentionally do the wrong action.
I miss Relay so much, but unfortunately the developer decided to play by Reddit’s rules and start charging people to use the app. So it’s never coming to Lemmy.
Oh God yes, I feel you on the Miss-clicks
Oh let’s look at the comments, downvote, ohh shit I need to, collapse, fuuuuck, uncollapse, inadvertently scrolls up now that it expanded, Hunt down the exact right one, swipe to upvote, miss, back to zero, sigh, carefully swipe over to upvote, tap for comments, end up in user’s profile… It’s not really an app that you can surf until you’ve had your coffee.
Have you tried Thunder? I’ve been using it since I finally got around to moving over here (admittedly not very long) and I’ve found that Thunder gets a lot right. It’s open source, ad-free, cross-platform, and nice to use. It doesn’t have quite as much polish as Relay but the design language is similar enough that it doesn’t feel like a huge departure.
I tried it a year ago; felt very much like an unfinished project. Too many missing features. Has it improved a lot since then?
I’ve only been on lemmy for like a month, so I have no point of comparison here. It doesn’t feel janky to me, but then I’m not a power user. It works well for what I like to do, which is view posts and comment. Images display well, I haven’t noticed any problems with video. I haven’t tried embedding images in comments yet, let’s try it with a photograph of the richest man in Indiana:
Give Thunder a second shot, or don’t. I’m not your boss, I’m just some drunk guy on the Internet.
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)_/¯
apollo was so nice to use
😭 Gone but not forgotten.
F for Respect, shall it forever stay
To keep each other company.
I still have it in the number one spot on the first page of my folder. It lives there forever.
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
oh wow, i had no idea! thanks for the info!
It not official, just heavily inspired by.
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
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“.
Good news! You can now sideload it
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This comment just gave me a little bit of PTSD
Reminds me of Boxxy for some reason.
The original meme has the person’s name as “katy”, and Boxxy’s real name is Catie, so whoever wrote the original might well have been parodying her.
Maybe, but I’m pretty sure that copypasta was around long before boxxy.
So I checked a bit more and pre-Boxxy Catie and the copypasta both appeared online in 2006, so it’s probably not a parody of her specifically, just girls like the Boxxy character Catie created. Funny coincidence about the name though.
We are all forked !!
Thankfully, Boost is just as nice for Lemmy as it was for Reddit.
And eternity is just as nice as Infinity :)
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.
A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.
Their reputation and their front page are both in the trash. It’s not a fun website to be on anymore.
Holy fuck, you’re right. They are all adults ish now. U nailed it with the /r/summerreddit take
I rarely touched that shithole called the front page. Mainly in Redditplanet for Windows Mobile, since you can’t login there.
to play devil’s advocate, from reddit’s view those third party apps were just using server resources and making them no money. Although yeah they could’ve handled it better by implementing different policies
Except you could post and comment through that medium, increasing their traffic, content and engagement without costing them a cent in development. Then they waited ten years beyond necessary to realise an app was indeed a good idea and fucked every user and developer to get theirs out and in front of people.
That’s a good point, i didn’t consider the value of the content it creates
2023? I was thinking 2013.
Why the fuck are they using a 3D voxel banana as a hat for Snoo?
And why does Snoo look AI generated?
reddit recap logo. and because for some reason they want to do the exact opposite of what every other company does with their logos. (I’m a lemmy and reddit dual user)
