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Digitalcatcher 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇮🇩 @lemmy.world

2y ago

"Why im here" rule

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No respect for the OG. RIP RiF.
- I still have the app on my phone. After over a decade of use, I can't bear to uninstall. Seeing it's icon is like seeing a loved one's ashes in my living room.
  
  You can patch your own api key into it with revanced manager
  
  I first got that app in 2012, didn't realize it had been so long, jesus
  
  I bought rif premium after they announced the api change, used it for so long. Probably wont delete it for a long time.
  
  I will forever hold on to all my backups of the apk I've made through the years, maybe one day they will be usable again... :(
- RIP Alien Blue
- Alien Blue? Or they did it again?

Posted using Sync for Lemmy
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.syncapps.lemmy_sync
- It's so fucking good. I thought I missed Reddit. No, I missed Sync!
  
  Sync is GOAT. IMO using the app makes me somehow want to comment more than what I expected.
  
  I know, right. In my idle phone time I'm reading the same small pool of posts over and over on Lemmy instead of whatever's on Reddit because the app experience is just so much better.

"Adulthood is when you find your favorite bread has disappeared from the grocery store."
Nanami from Jujutsu Kaisen (poorly translated)
- As a German this scenario is both unrealistic and at the same time devastating
  
  Our village baker retired and there was no one to pick up the mantle. Now there is a block of flats where once was the bakery.
  And they even had bread from a wood fired oven every Thursday... sniff
- I just make my own, now.

Personally I never used any 3rd party reddit clients because I avoid apps in general, and was really used to the old.reddit dating back to 2008 or so. However, I did give up on reddit finally based on the API issue, I had a successful API app based on another site years ago, and the way Splez acted was pretty much the same nonsense we were subjected to. We made something that the site members loved, and were able to eke out a decent living by developing and supporting it. We were always dealing with the site changing things, and the CEO had this attitude like we were interloper parasites making money from his property. We had the rug pulled out from under us multiple times with changes to the site, bugs, performance problems and unannounced feature cancellations. At the same time, their members told us our web app was the best, it enabled them to use the site and filled in huge gaps in the official offerings, and please don't ever change it. So, to see Reddit act that way to API developers was unacceptable.
- What happened to your app? (Or the site?)

I use them with Revanced. Sorry Lemmy, but you're not even close to Reddit's content quality. You're improving though.
- I love Lemmy. It's just like reddit from when I joined in 2012. With Sync for Lemmy, it's easy to use as well
  
  Lemmy is a great platform considering how new it is, but the conversation is still majorly about being on Lemmy and how Reddit = bad, and the Fediverse. It's very fatiguing.
- I'm using sync revanced for Reddit, the problem is it's only a matter of time before the API changes and the app stops working. Until then though I'll use both sync for reddit and sync for lemmy side by side
  
  I wasn't aware of the fact that the API changes would affect the Revanced workaround. Also, haven't the API changes already happened?

Slide for Reddit
Dawn for Reddit
Infinity for Reddit
RedReader
Alien Blue
Reddit is Fun
- Slide for Lemmy is in development

Reddit banned my account for "Abusing the report button", and still won't unban it. I still miss reddit because Lemmy doesn't have enough interest specific forums.
I need to talk to someone about Mortal Kombat and Sonic!
- They banned me for saying child molesters deserved to die. Meanwhile there's all kinds of other threads with people saying the same shit about other way less bad demographics and nothing happens to them... Hmmmmmm.
  
  My abuse of the report button, by the way, was because I kept reporting people for being outright malicious towards religious users. And since one's belief system is protected class as far as discrimination goes, I thought I was doing the right thing. And when I tried to explain this, my appeal was ignored. I still miss it sometimes because there are a lot of groups that just haven't been established on this platform yet. Sure we have a gaming channel, but we don't have an in-depth discussion for Mortal Kombat or sonic the hedgehog. And with the new Mortal Kombat coming out in september, oh damn do I miss the old joint sometimes. Oh well, has Reddit gets worse and worse it'll eventually be left in the dust. It's not like I was banned for doing anything wrong. Just trying to uphold the terms of service when the website would not.
- Pro tip, use Tor and a different Email and you can create a new account without ban evasion detection kicking in. Make sure you copy the link for email verification and open it in Tor not in the normal browser.

SyncJesus is back from the dead, yo

#relayLives
- And for a reasonable subscription price! It's just a shame that we know it goes straight to reddit, so I'm not gonna do that.
  
  The only reasonable subscription price to use a website you provide content for is free.
  
  Is there a free tier? I just check in every other week, and I'm surprised I can still use Relay without a subscription.
- Isn't the price based on how much you interact with the site?
  Gonna be a no from me.

This message was typed on infinity for lemmy

Infinity isn't there, cuz it lives on on Lemmy.
- Infinity for Reddit actually still works.
  
  I know, but paid, so bad ig

Infinity for lemmy clocking in!
- god i love Infinity
  it's so lightweight but also feature packed, has such a user friendly interface and nice colours
  
  Yep and it's FOSS :-)
  Currently using a nice nord theme with it!

We’re still on this?

The dev of Boost for Reddit says he's working on a Lemmy version, but it is as of yet unreleased.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rubenmayayo.lemmy
- That's why I'm running Lemmy on Sync for Lemmy. Absolutely beautiful.

On the other hand we now have Lemmy 3rd party clients and hopefully publicly available Kbin clients soon

Infinity, noooooo!!!

Agreed but I'm almost glad that happened since I'm off Reddit
- I miss the local community Reddit has/had - meaning vibrant town/city subreddits. The one for my town here on Lemmy is just one dude (@ickplant you’re doing your best) but it just doesn’t have the critical mass.
  
  You're my boy @ickplant

As a former Boost for Reddit user, Ive already set up to automatically download their Lemmy app when it drops.
- In the meantime you should check out Sync- writing you from it now :)
  
  Already on it :) it's not bad!

Same , this 196 is pretty alright from what I've seen same general gay libleftist vibes and I'm here for it

You can still get those apps to work by injecting personal API key into the app.
- I know nothing about that, how do you go about doing it?
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/
  This guide worked for me.
  Kinda sad though, it's taken my time back away from here, and here is quite nice.

I don't want to be the one spoiling the party, but infinity for reddit still works.

I'm still quietly using a 3rd party app for my limited Reddit visits as I am a moderator for a sub with no content.
- I used to be in the same boat. I still occasionally checked the mid feeds for my subs every once in a while. Very quickly though, the amount of decent people making posts plummeted, and the amount of asshole trolls skyrocketed. And on top of that, the reddit mobile app is wet hot shit for moderating, so even that was obnoxious.
  They massacred my boys.
  
  You misunderstood, my sub is private and the only member is me. This enables some 3rd party apps to still work. I still use a 3rd party app to visit Reddit.

I write this from my Sync for Lemmy client. Hopefully soon Boost for Lemmy will be out too.

Infinity? It's FOSS.

🫗

Why I'm Here
Are we laying Oleander on that grave? 🤔
- Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/1ewuKGRVEQM
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

You’re a bit late on that

Relay for Reddit is still active and implementing a tiered subscription soon. Not entirely sure I'll keep it but the lowest tier is only $2/month.

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