5mo ago

Ex Redditors of Lemmy what made you come on over? What happened at Reddit that you made the switch?

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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?
  
  Jerboa hits that minimalist sweet spot for me.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.

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