The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark

I agree... but this is probably the last big reddit thing for a while, so I think the reddit and lemmy stuff will die down from now

I'm posting often in foodporn and my little communities.

Same, definitely a bummer. The official reddit app is so awful. Lemmy it is...

I had been a Baconreader Premium user for 10 years, kinda sad to see it go.

Slide for Lemmy already has an alpha version

iirc infinity will stop working on 7/1 as well. possibly switching to a subscription model with price tbd

Currently you can type libreddit.hu/r/ in front of any subreddit and avoid Reddit directly, not sure what's happening to that domain with the changes.

From what i heard recently, infinity is going to be subscribtion based from now on.. so probably devs didnt stop app from working but are yet to implement subsciption

Right?! And then when being asked if they could maybe charge $10 million (or give people 6 months to figure things out), they just said no. I can't remember another company that blatantly cut off all partner relationships like that.

I think the reasoning is that Reddit didn't realize these *were *partner relationships. They thought these apps were just taking and not actually helping.

Reddit's metrics are ad sales. And I think the impact here is going to be slower, and take longer.

Twitter's fall has been faster because existing competitors like Facebook and Instagram can take some of their users, Mastadon takes another chunk, and Substack launched their Twitter clone Notes already. Not to mention Bluesky's expanding public beta. If you liked Twitter and want that experience somewhere else, you've got good options.

Reddit has no real competitor. There's stuff like Hacker News, but their community is small and extremely toxic. Nothing else comes close. Until there's a true Reddit competitor, their demise will be slow and could be easily turned around.

You and I are of course on Lemmy. But lets be real, Lemmy isn't a competitor to reddit. As I write this comment there are 3 users online in this community. And given how there's already a huge amount of in-fighting and defederating amoung different Lemmy instances, this will never really take off.

Regular people don't want to sign up for a service and only to have it suddenly become much less useful overnight because they failed some purity test they didn't even know they were taking.

Check out wefwef.app. It will feel familiar.

Memmy for iOS currently being reviewed by Apple, should hit the App Store in a day or two. You can download the Test Flight now if you don’t want to wait.

Inspired by Apollo - and works amazingly with Lemmy. I’m using now.

Some other apps are out there in beta and being approved now. Mlem, Liftoff… it’s a good time to switch.

A few apps that have a smaller amount of users have been granted a delay in which they can set up a subscription scheme.

We don't know yet what the subscription cost is going to be and whether the whole thing will be sustainable. It's not clear to me for example what will happen if the users/traffic for these apps eventually rises (which is bound to happen if they're the only ones left standing). Or why a deal couldn't be reached with the large apps too.

Not to mention the whole sour taste, a couple months ago if Reddit had come out and said "we're putting all 'power user' stuff behind a paywall, pay a sub directly to us to help us out" I would've seriously considered it. Now, not so much.