Third party Reddit apps just got canned.
Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let's do this! 🤝
Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.
Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.
No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.
I just switch a couple of days ago and I feel more willing to post and comment
My last day on Reddit I shared an excited post about a fun thing in a hobby sub of mine and I got such awful negative responses and people telling me I was attention seeking. It was really ugly. So that was pretty much when I decided to uninstall my Boost app and switch to Lemmy full time
I'm the same way!
What app are you using? So far I've tried Liftoff, but I'm looking for something closer to Relay
On Android, I've tried all of them that are out so far. Summit for Lemmy is pretty good but I'm liking Connect for Lemmy the best so far. I was a Joey for Reddit user.
I'm using Jerboa and have been testing Thunder since yesterday, not bad, but still a bit limited, we need to be patient and give the developers some time, there are already like 10 apps and a couple of forks of third party Reddit apps in active development.
I've tried most of the android apps available so far. Summit and Connect for Lemmy are my favorites so far. I was a Joey for Reddit user.
I hope dbrady considers creating a lemmy version of relay. I'd be happy to pay for another pro version.
The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.
It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.
Rif refugee reporting in
Tried the "official" app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min... RIP Rif
I've been trying it for concurrent to Rif and Sync. The differences are individually small, but taken as a whole the official app is just horrible. If it weren't for Rif and Sync, I don't think I would have become a Reddit user. I'm desperately hoping Lemmy reaches the critical mass and Sync for Lemmy becomes a thing.
The official app os total junk and utterly unusable.
RIP RIF.
Looking forward to building something new here.
Same here brother.
Rest in Power RiF. Time to figure out Lemmy
Reddit was fun, now it's Lemmy's turn
Yeah I’m trying to figure out Lemmy as well!
wefwef.app, Thunder, Connect, and Liftoff are already amazing btw. Boost for Lemmy and Sync for Lemmy are in the works.
Jerboa actually gives off RiF vibes for me, though it's definitely still its own thing.
On pc use this to make it look a bit more like old.reddit. I hope tweaks like this get combined into a single extension later like RES
I'm using Memmy (https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy) and even though it's still in testflight I'm socked with the vast amount of updates, you get pretty much one a day and features are building up very quickly. It gives me a similar experience as Apollo used to. RIP Apollo
Ah man, I was like this is not a very big deal but in a way I felt a little sad when it actually stopped working. They should rename the app to, reddit is not fun.
It's time to teach them we can actually build a free, open source and popular alternative to their dystopian monopoly!
The sad part is reddit actually used to be open-source. They've become what they wanted to destroy. Sad times.
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
Take it as a reminder that we should always be faithful and coherent to our ideals!
I didn't know that reddit was open source. How the times have changed
Much like Google's motto used to read; don't be evil.
As a former Apollo user, using wefwef for lemmy has made adoption so easy. 10/10, it's basically an Apollo clone in-browser and has been working great. https://wefwef.app/
Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Lemmy are very nice :)
there’s something comforting seeing other Apollo friends here. Good to have you here!
Reporting in!
Wow, wefwef really does make me feel at home as an Apollo refugee. They weren’t lying!
Hi my brother in Apollo, welcome!
Another Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Memmy (haven’t settled on one yet) both have me feeling a bit at home. I hope Christian does an Apollo for Lemmy, but if not, these are great options.
Same here. I tried Lemmy and while ago and wanted to switch, but was held back by lack of a good app like Apollo and just the lack of users. Hopefully this will be the start of a change. Either way, not going back to Reddit.
Let's go.
Reddit is dead to me anyways.
Yeah, but I do think a lot of clueless folks won't leave. Honestly, I wonder if reddit is undergoing a massive brain-drain right now. I rather hope so, because it would mean Lemmy is getting some high-grade folks.
This is pretty much why I'm here... It feels like the folks who left are going to be good company.
Sync refugee here, RIP Sync. I can't wait for Sync for Lemmy.
So say we all.
I was hoping for Relay, but the dev is sticking with Reddit and switching to a subscription model.
Yeah Relay was my preferred app and I'm super bummed it's staying with Reddit. I'm using Liftoff which has some issues but works well. I'm looking forward to the first 1.0 releases of various apps still.
Hopefully we can help create new communities on Lemmy. Nothing will truly replace Reddit but new groups will be created and over time they will become great.
everything will be replaced eventually in time but whether lemmy will replace reddit (in this case) is the question.
Lemmy us only superficially similar to Reddit. In fact it is much more, or so much less, depending on what you need in your social networking.
That level of control makes it more complicated for some people.
But… does Lemmy HAVE to replace reddit? Why not just… enjoy it and forget reddit even exists?
It’s been a very chill and peaceful switch, once I get used to the change I plan on helping any way I can to help the community grow. We can rebuild together 🖖
Digg refuge reporting in.
Think you may have gotten lost in a time warp for a bit there.
Likewise… I was hoping Reddit would never get DiggV4-ized, but I can’t say I didn’t expect it.
It started when they removed being able to see how many upvotes and downvotes people had. They started inflating and fuzzing numbers to promote corporate stuff. Then the influx of mobile users…
The popularity of this community might finally get me into pirating, lol. I subbed out of curiosity.
I like that this community is dedicated to the concept of piracy based on their principals. I'm not involved, but I appreciate it
I'm not involved either. I definitely would never do anything so abhorrent and inconsiderate of rights holders who purchased their copyrights fair and square.
Never.
Ever.
Can see clearly, this server is much slower than yesterday, like if thousands of users are switching here
I'm very glad my instance is small in comparison... Noticed lemmyworld and lemmyml were unresponsive for a while just after the apps started getting cut off
Beehaw has been riddled with crashes. Its a growing pain, but kind of a good thing
Fuck Reddit and the bootlickers all over the site now. Enjoy brown nosing spez as you scroll through ads on the shitty official app
wild how they complain about the complainers, without realizing that the complainers are the ones who make the site good. Without them it's going to be shitty. Reddit will be alive, but less great.
Left reddit and won't look back. I like it here more already. Great community. Everyone here just wants it to work so bad and is being very patient through growing pains. Love you guys and fuck reddit!
Just an FYI - some apps are still working as of this moment... But yeah, most of us know it's only a matter of time.
Honestly, the content seems higher quality here. Perhaps the cesspools of Reddit were hard to spot for those of us who lurked there for over a decade.
Quality over quantity. Cheers to a new horizon, everyone.
I'm keeping my reddit account alive for just a handful of subreddits because there aren't really equivalent communities here or elsewhere.
This is what I think needs to happen for the tipping point to occur.
It looks like people have done a good job building out the "Top 100" (minus all the duplicates across the various instances) but now it's time to build the next 1,000 subs that give people a place for the more nuanced said that once made Reddit great.
Same here.
There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can't see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.
But that's it.
I feel like the past 3 weeks I've moved to a new city. And I'm discovering new communities here.
I'm trying to start convos/posts in the type of subs I used to like, in the hopes it'll snowball. Also, upvoting people who have made similar efforts, to encourage them.
It's been a while since I haven't lurked, but back in the day (long before reddit) small forums absolutely had a handful of active people creating the reaction mass that draws other people in, and we'll have to replicate that here.
Same. There's a lot of subreddits that aren't here yet that I need and that there aren't many active forums for.
For example, I play a not uncommon instrument and I use the instrument's subreddit occasionally. It's a really good source for auditions, techniques, and resources. Unfortunately, there isn't a community here and most of the forums on that instrument are dead/closed. I could go on Facebook and join groups on there, but is that really better than Reddit
yeah there are a few things, I still have reddit for, such as gun based subs and some comic book circle jerk pages. Mainly the gun stuff.
Other than that I pretty much only use this site. I probably need to take advantage of the reddit thing to leave behind these kind of forums in general and break my addiction
Same here. r/worldbuilding, r/writing, and r/writing prompts hasn't had a sizable presence on lemmy yet...
I noticed that, too. reddit became so sad and depressing. Every cute animal had a granny comment "just like my pumpkin who i buried last week".
The comments were dads trying to be funny, and the porn was self-proclaimed milfs trying to make a quick buck on onlyfans. I tried the nsfw server here, and of course the sellers are already there, but maybe it will be better with more individual governance, and with fewer people overall.
Maybe being the front page or the Internet isn't so great after all for its users.
Hey! I’m a dad, and I consider myself marginally funny.
But I’m also a 10-year Reddit user, so I know what you mean. There’s a world of difference between old and modern Reddit. There was an actual “culture” that we were all a part of. I’d prefer a return to the “front page of internet culture” rather than keeping it alive as the “front page of popular media” it became.
I enjoy being able to make posts/comments/whatever and actually respond and get responses. And everyone actually interacts! It's great!
Except I guess accessibility apps but not sure if it's all or just one or two. Probably to get around fines.
Using the wefwef app is just like using Apollo, good clone
Upvoted via wefwef (or Apollo II as I named it)
IKR. The best part is we can use it in Android as well as a PWA ( progressive web app)
It works surprisingly well for a web app!
I just wish I could sort by top :,(
works for me
Works for me
Can't you?
What happens when you try to?
I remember reading about an issue a few weeks ago where the Lemmy server process that refreshes the "top" posts was struggling with the influx of new posts and would crash, resulting in some users' "top" feeds having really old posts. IIRC that has been fixed now though
Fuckspez
Careful man, he may edit your com….
Wait a second. We’re free!
I didn’t know who Huffman, spez or the fact there was a bid to IPO until Apollo’s announcement of closure occurred. Why? Because I didn’t subscribe the Reddit’s main subreddits, I was very niche.
Once I learned about all that, I vowed if they didn’t reverse their standing and treatment of Christian, I was leaving.
Once the last week of June came and Spez triple-downed on his terrible business decision, I began using tools to destroy all of my content including topics I made that were all ranking #1 in Google, that causes plenty of PMs years after creation.
I’ve since deleted all but one account that I’ll probably hold onto just in case they decide to block my access to information I need.
I’ve deleted Apollo, Reddit’s official app and logged out on all browsers across all platforms I use. I’m done and liking WefWef as a replacement.
Fyi the real member count is almost 20k; the sidebar only shows how many are subscribed to it from your instance.
It shows 360 from vlemmy.net for example.
I signed up through vlemmy, idk if that means anything significant though since I'm able to subscribe to whatever.
Doesn't mean much; vlemmy is a pretty normal general instance.
It's best to recommend vlemmy.net, lemm.ee, and reddthat.com to new users though imo to prevent strain on the bigger servers
dang I was wondering why the wefwef community only had 1 subscriber
Yeah I really hope they show the total shared user counts for comms on all instances; you currently have to do that through Lemmyverse.net, which is not user friendly at all.
It's already been opened as an issue on the github though, and I think this needs to be implemented asap
Well that's that I guess. No more Reddit on my phone.
I installed libreddit.hu as a PWA, which allows you to subscribe to subreddits and customise the theme, I expect it to stop working at some point but until then I can observe some of my old subs without directly using Reddit.
Especially without the ability to add content to their platform.
A few last minute loopholes were carved in according to comments in this post
Sounds like Narwhal had good mod tools
got my data takeout request from reddit just in time
ran powerdelete suite to delete everything
it took almost 3 weeks to process the data takeout request, that means it is computationally expensive, everyone should ask for it to send a signal
Same experience here. They needed 2 and a half week!
Yeah switched to lemmy yesterday and currently finding it ok. I’m usually just on phone so it’s a little weird, but I’m here for the community XD
I highly recommend https://wefwef.app/ You don't even have to download it, it looks almost exactly like Apollo. But there's a bunch of other apps that look like RIF, Sync, etc. to make the browsing more pleasant and usable/familiar.
Some other apps on iOS:
can confirm is Mlem is pretty good for the start of this whole thing
I miss RIF already
The ReVanced team have patched it, so you can continue using it for all your non NSFW needs.
https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
You'll need a fresh copy of the APK, they have a discord if you run into trouble.
Sync refugee reporting in!
did all of them stopped working already 😔 ?
The ReVanced team have made patchers available for a number of Reddit apps including Sync
thank you may your ratio be high and the copyright trolls after you be blind
those fucking MVPs i am gonna clone it right now
-don't shill it to "anyone" like some idiots did to a certain website not long ago
Wow that was quick, those devs are crazy 😲 🏆 cloning just in-case it gets taken down
Wouldn't be surprised if the ReVanced patches swapped out the API keys for Reddit's own, so Reddit's servers just think it's their own app. For now that approach may be viable, but Reddit will undoubtedly be working on checks to prevent this.
I'm just running into errors here, and the patching aborts itself. Not my first time using revanced either, so no idea what's happening.
Oh nice! I wish RiF was in there but at least this gets BaconReader working again for now.
Relay is still working. It's moving to a subscription model, but it's free in the interim.
Relay was my app, I was wondering why he wasn't as active in the last month as every other app. I already deleted Relay and switched to Connect but I'll be interested to see what price point he was allowed to continue at. Apollo was making money off Reddit using Apple's famed SaaS model, but relay only made money off selling the pro version of the app and ads on the free version. I'm wondering if Reddit was more accommodating to them because of that
Baconreader stopped working around 5 pm yesterday for me
I'm still using infinity.
Checked RIF just after midnight. Got a goodbye message and nothing else.
Bonus, looks like the reddit I joined
Hope it happens but most of the content posted here seems to be about people complaining about Reddit. So right now not to hopeful.
Reddit was the same when we migrated from digg. It will get better. :)
It's gotten less reddit heavy over the past couple weeks, and will probably get more reddit heavy for a bit, before eventually normalizing into the tone it always will be. People have just lost something they spent a lot of time on and they kinda need to talk it out
I don't remember it being as bad. But hopefully.
As a redugee I don't necessarily plan to spend much time bashing bc it's a done deal, but I anticipate a lot. Personally I'd rather help the community grow instead of making it the community to removed about another community.
Well, not all the users will jump to another boat at the same time. So you mostly hear complaints from new Lemmy users. It will pass after a few days.
I expected Reddit posts to last a week or so at this intensity because of the recency of 3rd party apps dying. Then we will see how much content is actually being outputted.
I'm dropping Reddit completely in a social aspect. I'll definitely be using it for the treasure trove of information it contains.
Reddit refugee here. Thanks to everyone helping others learn the fediverse. Lemmy seems like the last stand of the internet forum wild west that I grew up with. Gives me hope.
A ‘rebel alliance’ if you will?
I'm experiencing a bizarre glimpse of humanity in the Internet, before the bots have been written and move in, the experience of communicating with actual people without the influence of karma, business, or astroturf just yet.
They will come, but Lemmy sets the new terms of engagement.
RedditSync checking in. Looking forward to the LemmySync app in development.
The fall of reddit makes me smile
We, the users, the community are the lifeblood. It's people that had the good times, and people that made them.
Yeah, but I do think a lot of clueless folks won't leave. Honestly, I wonder if reddit is undergoing a massive brain-drain right now. I rather hope so, because it would mean Lemmy is getting some high-grade folks.
This is pretty much why I'm here... It feels like the folks who left are going to be good company.
Hello!
Don't have much to say, gonna miss Baconreader, but whatever, reddit had become stale anyway, gonna give lemmy and squabbles a go now
Powerdelete suite is actually editing all my Reddit history to pass a message while I’m trying wefwef and memmy (both available on iOS).
I like it so far, I might only keep a Reddit porn account but even that is filled with OF promotions.
Make requests for any subreddits you want to see on !requests@lemmit.online. That way, you can keep whichever subreddits you want without actually visiting Reddit.
Apparently a bunch of automods have shut down too, can’t confirm that but that would be hilarious
So their exemptions werr just a bunch of lies
Boost and Infinity working fine for me. Let's see, how long.
Shhhh don't let spez find us
Guys, Connect for Lemmy is really good on Android.
Former RIF user here; Connect is very comfy to use. Almost no learning curve save for learning how the fediverse works and even that's been made easy.
Not just refugee but participating this round instead of lerking
I'm with you on that. 12 years of lurking on reddit, feel like it's time for a fresh start