Never thought I would get emotional about losing an app

Think of it as fortuitous timing. Reddit is the old internet. Lemmy is the new world. You are one of its early movers. Come fill this place.

Hehe, the actual "old internet" resembles the fediverse of today, it's what we thought the internet was supposed to be back then. Once corporations found the internet, we got the bullshit we have today.
- I'm still a little concerned what happens once instances start getting real traffic though.
- Too true.
  
  On the plus side, many spurned app-developers seem to be checking out Lemmy and kbin as well.
- History repeats itself. The fediverse is going to go downhill too once it gets big enough for corporations to notice it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
- JOIN MY WEBRING!
  
  Maybe the Fediverse's logo should be a little animated gif a of a construction worker.
"Old Internet" - I like it!
- The old internet was great. I had a lot of fun with the local bbs, irc, and telnet talkers. It was a simpler time.
Reddit is the old internet.

Ehhh.

I'd timeline it something like this:

Interaction was on non-Web-based systems, mostly distributed

This was mostly pre-2000s and tended to go into decline in the 1990s or 2000s as Web-based platforms focusing on ease of use picked up users. Many of these were distributed.

Usenet (decline as a discussion forum dating to maybe late 1990s, though lots of pirated information is still transferred via it)

IRC, peaking around 2003 according to WP

Email (peaked later, in 2009, according to WP. Obviously still pretty healthy compared to the above two.

Web 2.0

People tend to shift towards interacting with each other on large websites; these tend to later acquire mobile apps to cater to smartphone users.

Facebook

YouTube

Twitter

Reddit (though a fair number of third-party clients did exist)

If the Fediverse manages to pick up a lot of people, it's probably somewhat-closer to the first phase.
- IRC was great back then. The other day I jumped on Undernet because I was feeling nostalgic. It's still running but didn't have much activity. The fact that it still exists made me smile.
Old, Centralised Internet
I need like a crash course on how this all works. I was so used to subreddits and I'm finding myself lost. I'd love to be a pilot of gardening/brewing/MTG subreddit style thing here but again, I need a crash course
Unrelated, but love the username, even though I never finished the series.

15 years on reddit for me. Exclusively old.reddit.com and apollo for most of that. That site is dead to me now.

I just feel bad for the developer. Years spent developing an app for it to be worthless. That has got to be deflating.

Depends how you define 'worthless'. In the case of Apollo, it certainly wasn't financially worthless for him. And just to be clear, I have no issue with a quality app developer making money doing what they do.
- I mean, actual take-home-pay aside from running Apollo, I have no doubt that Christian will be head-hunted like all hell from so many tech companies. I bet his future is solid gold after this. =)

Me too. RIP two best apps. Reddit is dead to me.

Well the good news is that the RIF dev is working on an app for Tildes. So god-willing at least it will stick exist in some form.

tildes is invite only right now though.
- Does anyone have an invite?
- You can still do everything except upvote/down vote and if Tildes gets enough traction will move to non invite in the future
Hopefully Tildes stops the invite only thing.
- I understand it for them. They're a slower, more mature forum - they don't want to be Reddit. I've got an account there and I enjoy my time there, but I've been using Kbin instead of Reddit more often.
- It's probably just so they can build up a fanbase then open once they have enough high-quality users. I guess it's to stop an Eternal September situation.

For me, it was JoeyforReddit on Android. What an excellent app! I was able to read at length because I could select my own font, sizes and color. It made for very easy reading on my eyes.

I love being here but am hoping for apps for these new socials. I cannot do the sans serif fonts without eye pain. I think the reading flow isn't smooth. So improvements needed and will be well received.

Nice to see you all here.

I'm genuinely sad. Not to be dramatic, but there were times where Reddit saved my life. Seeing the number of comments and posts I had made while I was scrubbing my account hit me harder than I thought it would.

This was my sentiment two weeks ago, and I made an "is anyone else sad?" post.

It eventually devolved into a "ding ding, the witch is dead!" situation!
but there were times where Reddit saved my life.

Yep, if it weren't for their stopsmoking sub, I'd probably be dead today.

It's sad, but it seems to me you adapted to the fediverse, I see you on my frontpage every time I check it, great content, good job!

Thanks!

Artemis and Memmy are both Apollo inspired

Yep. Sucks.

@Girlparts I'm running PowerDelete Suite right now and it is very bittersweet for me. 12 years of heavy participation, poof, gone like dry leaves in the breeze.

I was always an old.reddit.com user on both desktop and Android so I didn't think the loss of the apps would make too much difference to me.

Yeesh was I wrong; you can already see the falloff in content over there now.

And I am really sick of seeing John Oliver pics.

Although reddit apps are dieing, many great apps for lemmy have popped up or are being worked on.

Today is officially gonna be the last day that I will argue with righties and centrists on r/conservative

I uninstalled RIF. For old time's sake I fell asleep last night browsing many year old threads on r/tolkienfans. Truly relaxing, ad, clutter free, just text, just reading. I hate the idea of a world without that.

I felt this, but as the end of the month drew nearer and I adjusted to the idea of losing Reddit more, it has actually felt like a really cathartic process for me. Using PowerDeleteSuite on my profile, creating a new one here, searching for new communities within it. I honestly think this change will be a net positive for me personally. Reddit was absolutely swamped in noise and low quality content, it had been for years. A communal shift into a new world, that holds different values at the forefront, and by default (smaller, federated communities) content quality should improve. It reminds me a little of the old message board days.

I'm just waiting on a kbin app that goes at least some way to being as good an experience as Apollo was, as I'm mostly a mobile user.

Vulcan is a Relay user, but Reddit shenanigans with Apollo and other 3PAs infuriates Vulcan so much that he jumped to kbin and other threadiverse platforms.

12 years for me as well, but from my point of view I'd say good riddance. Reddit has been gone to shit over the past ~5 years. I will miss Relay though.

I was about to make a post like this. Trying to explain this whole situation to someone this morning, and found myself feeling way more feelings than I expected to feel over losing an app.

But it's more than an app. For the last 7 years, it's where my nerds hang out. It's where I could get actual humans responding to weird questions.

It's also the place where I often got shouted down and told in many ways that I'm stupid.

I expected these two things to balance each other out, but no. I'm sad to lose Reddit, upset that the reason is greed, and a little apprehensive about relying on Kbin for all my forum contend from now on. It's been great here so far, but I'm only just getting started.

I was thinking about exactly this last night. I feel like the apps we used (12 years on Reddit, with RIF for as long as I remember) were Reddit. The apps and the way we customized them created our own little Reddit universe. I'm sad for all the devs that worked on their applications and put so much work into them also. But I've been off Reddit for a couple of weeks and I absolutely do not miss it.