The official reddit app is not even supported on my device.

That’s actually been my experience as well lol.

I did actually deliberately jump on reddit on desktop recently, just to check on a few things and see how the protests were going.

There wasn’t really anything informative on the front page that hadn’t already been posted here. The quality of posts actually seemed worse overall

I opened Reddit, saw no bean posts so I immediately closed it.

Things will slowly grow if we all stick with Lemmy though. It's really just a matter of time until it reaches a critical mass.

Yes that's the only thing I would miss from Reddit. The wealth of knowledge that lives on their servers and the community until they more over here

It’ll come with time.

I can leave the larger community, but I do miss a couple subreddits.

The good thing about the Reddit before the dark times of 3 weeks ago, was that it had a large enough user graph that there were enough people with niche interests to have an active community. Facebook also has this critical user graph.

The good thing about ActivityPub based communities is that there is the potential to have much larger federated user graphs than the individual closed business-based platforms.

I couldn’t bring myself to uninstall it completely so I just removed it from my Home Screen, it can live out its retirement in the app library

He should make a post about it!

Have a look around.

Be the change you want to see. There are probably other people looking for those coversations, but see low engagement and move on. The more you post the more attractive it makes the community for other people.

I have also found that even if there are fewer comments, other people tend to respond and have more discussions.

I do have alot of hope that well see the community continue to grow & hopefully more activity as people search out reddit alternatives.

it's only been like a week, people will come

The endless scrolling communities are the easiest to move. They're low hanging fruit. One of the other replies to you here nailed it... without a massive community of millions, the future of Lemmy rests on the more modestly sized community here willing to actually come out of their lurk and not just respond to posts, but to start posts on their own and actually drive the content.

I feel the same way about music production-related communities here. I just don't have much to ask and I suck pretty badly at it so I don't feel like I'm good enough to drive content/discussions lol

I initially had the same lament, but since we're early adopters of this tech, it really is on us to build the communities here. If you want to discuss something, just post a thread. Even if no one replies right away, as people start coming they will start engaging with posts that are already there.

Which fitness subreddits need growth? I have arrived.

The only real community I saw that migrated was r/piracy. Otherwise, I've experienced basically the same thing you have.

Even from 3 weeks ago, this place has grown hand over fist. Just give it a few more weeks and it'll be pretty much new Reddit.

It’s classic tribal or “sports team” mentality. Ex-redditors want to see reddit fail just as much as Lemmy succeed.

I can for sure see both sides of this one. I had ditched all other social media years ago, and baconreader was my one guilty pleasure.

If I had my phone in my hand, I was catching up with other old skaters like myself, reading about the latest trends in tech, or browsing the daily news.

The tag line of "Front page of the internet" was quite literally true for me. That was the portal through which I found content.

In the weeks leading up to the June 30th, I felt a strong sadness, what was I going to do with my screen time? I had created a very custom space using baconreader that neither the reddit app, or to be fair, Lemmy, could provide.

While I am really enjoying learning about Lemmy, and I feel the quality of the post and comments here are far better, it's going to take time to find and/or develop those niche communities again.

I do however agree, and the ex analogy is spot on, that the last thing I want is for this community to just be a removed fest about what once was.

Give people a bit of time to vent, it hasn't even been a week since a decades long experience came crashing to a halt through no fault of ours.

Ouch

Tbh you all need to get used to it for a while, every day new people join and they wanna talk about their migration, it's what's going on for them right now, you had your moment let them have theirs

Well, karma for all, then.

Deeper...

https://web.archive.org/web/20111018120500/http://digg.com/news/technology/ok_enough_is_enough_keep_the_digg_news_in_r_digg_i_haven_t_cared_i_don_t_care_and_i_won_t_care_and_many_share_my_sentiments

Facebook still does this to me. I log in via Web app now.

What a stupid anti-human shit, I hate it. All my devices from 10 years ago are still perfectly fine and operational, and I can't use them because of some people's laziness. They are used on 1% devices not because they are necessarily bad or broken but because it's impossible to use them now for arbitrary reasons.

What makes it even more ridiculous is that it was originally a perfectly functional 3rd party app that they bought out. AlienBlue worked on ipads. A decade ago.

More than a few years back - they've long since replaced dalvik with ART.

And there was much rejoicing.

TIL

Reddit didn't keep their deadline for the API implementation. I've still got Boost installed and it's still working, nsfw posts however went away yesterday. You can still get nsfw if you use revanced apparently but I'm just checking reddit now out of curiosity.

Boost never stopped working. Sync did, but you can get past it with revanced at least until they break it.

I had trouble with sync so I uninstalled and came to lemmy

It still possibly work if you use your own api client id (less than 100 calls/min should be free irrc) but it needs patch from revanced.

If you look in their respective sub reddits, you'll see reports that they do still work for some.

RIF also still works if you're not logged in

I couldn't figure out how to make a top level comment in liftoff. It was very visually appealing though

Thunder and wefwef are also pretty good. I really like the gesture controls on them though, so that may be biasing me a bit.

Android tab and mobiles

Where are you shopping? Samsung has several great tablets available in a wide range of prices. The S series has the S6 lite, a great tablet with stylus, for $350. There are cheaper tablets without the stylus for cheaper.

firefox can use some extensions on mobile. Worth a try?

Yes, exactly.

They wouldn’t do it to retain the small audience. They would do it so they could safely deprecate even more old devices. It makes life easier on the app engineers when they can focus on fewer devices and OSes. Less testing. You can use more modern libraries without a bunch of “if” forks. Sometimes the oldest 2% of your users can represent 15% of your effort. But 2% of users is a lot to drop.

That’s where the 3rd party app would come in. It would quiet complaints and allow content contributors to be retained, without any maintenance. Basically it would de-risk some moves like only supporting phones from the last 4 years, and nothing older.

I was speaking about Jerboa.

Might be old in modern times, but I dont want to have to buy a new phone every 5 years. Especially if it is still working very well...

Also OP made the point that the official Reddit App requires Android 8+, so it's the same thing