1y ago

Apps saying goodbye to Reddit and immediately becoming fediverse apps instead

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Its so nice being on a platform where the first 1000 comments on every post aren't just low effort jokes.
- I haven’t even considered this. Most users on Reddit are lurkers. It doesn’t take many of us to make new communities worth visiting
  
  Former lurker checking in, trying to take this new start on Lemmy as a way to participate more and hopefully contribute a bit, I wonder how many will do the same coming from reddit.
  
  Absolutely. Currently a lot of places here feel how Reddit used to be when I joined up. I quite like it.
- Your low-effort comment wasn't even funny.
  
  🤣🤣
- Coming to a comment thread to reply "this" feels so cheugy. When I think of the heydey of reddit, I think of 2011 in my dorm room doing the grow a college subreddit. And here we are twelve years later and the best experience you can get now is exactly that same experience.
  
  this.
  
  The fuck does cheugy mean?
  
  A month or two ago I got a bunch of downvotes for explaining why I didn't like a game. The people responding said it was because my comment was "too long." It was like six sentences. Why are these people on Reddit instead of Twitter?
- You forgot reposts for karma removed.
  
  I bet itll get worse with reddit becoming public and trying to juice money from reddit.
  
  Good thing about Lemmy is the lack of karma, so we'll be doing just normal removed I guess.
- Yeah lve been a lurker for over 10 years over there and I was sick of all the karma removed, the low quality posts and especially the pun threads that would bend my face with cringe. Hopefully we can get things right on the Lemmy-verse

Would love for the Apollo app developer Christian to get on board and join the Wefwef developers to make a native app.
- Found wefwef today and love it.
  I was kind of bummed when I realized it wasn’t a native app, but so far it’s been working great regardless.
  
  I’ve added it to my Home Screen and to be honest I can barely tell it’s not a native app. It’s shockingly well put together so far.
- Agreed. I only viewed reddit through apollo; if he can shift, I’ll absolutely stay with apollo over reddit.
  
  Wefwef is for you
- hell yeah. I want KIF or LIF
  
  FIF -- Fediverse Is Fun :D
- But, but Artemis is for Kbin (for now).
  
  Is that available yet?
- +1 to native app, it’s part of what made Apollo great
  What do you mean by “join the Wefef developers to make a native app”
  Are you saying you wish they would join forces and start or is Wefwef already on it?
  I like the look of wefwef a lot, coming from Apollo but I just don’t love web apps for things like this - so a native app from them would be awesome!
  
  With iOS 17, web apps will get more features to make them feel more native. It might be so close that it will be hard to tell the difference between a web-developed native app and a PWA. Wefwef is already really nice and it's mere days old. I can't wait to see where they take it.

Which apps are doing this by the way?
- Sync and Boost officially are.
  Infinity for Everything (Fediverse) is on GitHub.
  wefwef and Memmy are starting to feel like Apollo already.
  Connect seems to be inching closer to Relay with each update, and Jerboa gives off RiF vibes.
  People need to post about this on reddit more to perhaps encourage the other devs to do the same; might've actually worked for Boost cuz the dev didn't originally plan to port it to Lemmy it seems
  
  I'm using wefwef right now I'm honestly Impressed!
  
  Wefwef is absolutely nuts as a PWA, was looking forward to Sync for Lemmy but as a former heavy iOS user this is so cool!
  
  Super excited for Boost!
  
  Do you have a link to the infinity for everything repository? I can't seem to find it
  
  How's the infinity port on GitHub? I use infinity for reddit, would be nice to use the same here .
  
  Really excited about Infinity for Everything! I used Infinity for Reddit and it was hands-down my favorite app. Looks like the Everything version is still pretty early. Will be watching it closely.
  
  I would love to see them bring Sync and/or Boost to iOS with this, but I doubt it. But Wefwef and Memmy are great
- Boost is the one I'm looking forward to the most. Highly customizable and highly streamlined
  
  Boost is a legitimately perfect app for the format IMO. I'm so so so glad it's coming over
  
  I love Sync. Looking forward to seeing that one on Lemmy.
  
  Boost was the single app I used to browse Reddit on my phone for years! I can't wait for the new app to be ready
  
  Just added myself to the list to register when it's available. Boost was the only reason I was on Reddit.
- In addition to the others mentioned, someone is making an unofficial port of Slide.
  
  Hell yeah, it's the best reddit app hands down.
- Developer of RedReader also said they want to eventually support Lemmy and perhaps tildes and hacker news, even though RedReader got an exemption from the api fees for now. But as a "long-term vision", so probably not immediately.
- Sync, Boost are some of the apps I know
- this... this.. brings me memories... oh the reddit memories
  all of the deleted's

Please RIF, become a fediverse app!
- Sadly, it's going to become a Tildes app apparently.
  Don't despair though, you can get fairly close with the Connect app with a few settings changes already.
  
  Tbh, it's probably good for multiple devs to go different ways. We don't know which, if any, reddit replacement can take hold. I love rif and the developer behind it, I hope their journey goes well.
  
  I have never heard of tildes until now. Looked it up and man does that ui leave much to be desired. I'm glad I heard of Lemmy first.
  
  Tildes seems nice i just dont know anyone on it so i cant participate myself
  
  Yeah, currently using connect and reasonably happy with it

Sync has announced that they are developing for Lemmy and I am so down for it.
- Sync is a remarkably well made app, I was delighted to see that announcement
- Same. I can't wait.

I gotta admit that I'm a bit disappointed with the owner of Relay for Reddit as he decided to stay and turn it into a subscription model. He might have attached his cart to the wrong horse. That's what I want to believe anyway.
- It's probably hard to give up entirely on an app you've been working on for so long.
- Won't all nsfw content be invisible to third-party apps?
  So people aren't paying to keep reddit alive, they're paying to have some advertiser friendly, bot-ridden husk of reddit available outside the official app.
  Those outsized API fees don't even get you the original reddit experience, it's disgusting.
  I don't blame the dev, but I also don't understand his decision.
- Why not take money from those who want to give?

Baconreader, please become a fediverse app!
- Dude I discovered reddit because bacon reader. Hell I didn't even knew there was an official app. I NEED the tile scrolling,it's such a pain to have to go back and scroll to the next post instead of just slide from one to another. Maybe we can send him an email? I know he has like a weather app or something?
- I need this so badly, after over a decade of using baconreader on Reddit my muscle memory needs a similar interface.
- That would be amazing

I begged the boost dev to make a Lemmy app, I sent him several DMs and made a post about it
I like to think I contributed to his decision
- deleted by creator
- Can't wait for the boost app! I'm new to Lemmy and using desktop only until Boost is ready.
- BOOST IS MAKING A FEDI APP? HELL YEAH

Which apps are specifically turning into fediverse apps? Very curious.
- Sync and Boost officially are.
  Infinity for Everything (Fediverse) is on GitHub.
  wefwef and Memmy are starting to feel like Apollo already.
  Connect seems to be inching closer to Relay with each update, and Jerboa gives off RiF vibes.
  People need to post about this on reddit more to perhaps encourage the other devs to do the same; might've actually worked for Boost cuz the dev didn't originally plan to port it to Lemmy it seems
  
  Jerboa is crashing for me on start, which isn't a great sign. I just want Boost already!
  
  I am on connect now and the similarities with relay is why
- I've been test driving android apps for lemmy for hours now and it's been fun but I'd love to see one with a RIF UX. Any chance we can convince Andy to develop RIF for lemmy?
  
  I need a RiF Lemmy badly.
  
  Lif?
  
  He's doing one for Tildes apparently but I'd love to see one for Lemmy
- I know Boost is going to become a Lemmy app. You can even "preorder" it on the playstore and itll download on your device as soon as its released.
  
  Wait Boost is becoming a Lemmy app? You got any more info?
- Sync is, and I'd be surprised if we don't get a fedi fork of Infinity and the other open-source reddit apps at some point!

Are there any kbin apps for Android?
- Not yet, but they are on the way.
  In the meantime the kbin mobile site works well as a PWA, even better if you install these scripts:
  https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles/t/27201/kbin-enhancement-script-QOL-updates-for-the-kbin-UI
  https://kbin.social/m/kbinStyles/t/105421/Kbin-Usability-Pack-0-2-2-Now-with-settings
  Easy to do with Fennec
  
  PWA really works for me.
- No API access yet IIRC, but there is @ArtemisApp being worked on.
- Artemis in closed beta. Many apps are only developed for lemmy unfortunately
  
  The kbin api isn't finished. Once it is I bet it will get apps quickly.

An app is making the difference for me between Lemmy & Squabbles. Squabbles via an app is looking very much like Reddit, but Lemmy has the numbers, I believe.
- Also, and this is a little vain/stupid I guess, but I hate the name and icon of Squabbles. Makes it seems like it’s a platform to argue, not be a community.
  
  Hopefully it attracts all the arguers then...
  
  discord has left the chat
- Liftoff is great so far! Super excited for Sync to convert over to Lemmy
- There are so many lemmy apps now. You've tried wefwef.app?

I've used Stealth client andits's still working on reddit, crossing my fingers
- I guess it is stealthy..
- I would love a stealth lemmy client

Yeah some of the app devs are going to implement support for lemmy while also continuing to support reddit.
Looking at this from a business perspective, I think that would be the smartest move. When a business partner unilaterally jacks up the price, while it might feel satisfying to tell them to go fuck themselves, it's probably not the smartest move. The smart move is to continue doing business while making partnerships with others just in case the asshole partner jacks up the price again.
I think it might be a thing where these apps will use lemmy for the free version while offering reddit for a subscription. If this is the case, we'll see a gradual increase of users on lemmy with a gradual decline of users on reddit. Older people who stubbornly stick to reddit will pay the subscription, while younger people that can't afford a subscription to reddit (and have no attachment to it anyway) will use the free versions and use lemmy.

Are there any examples of this happening?
- There are; I can think of one specifically. Sync for Reddit is becoming Sync for Lemmy, it's under development.
  
  Also Boost for Lemmy.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy

So when do we get our own the narwhal bacons at midnight
- Some things should stay dead
  
  We have the no pooping for three days thing, which frankly is better
- I'm still pretty sure whoever came up with that was a troll and was trying to get that person that was posting from the airport to embarrass themself in public

Live to see it. :)

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