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Nowadays I barely use Reddit, but sometimes you end up forced to use an app, so I use Infinity with a custom API key
I still user reddit alot, but I use sync. Unfortunately there are still many useful subreddits in reddit that have never moved to Lemmy. For example Usenet subreddit or Fan sub Reddit for tv show and games, and let us not forget anime_titties.
That works until reddit.old is killed. That will be next thing to go
I’m still using boost. Both for lemmy and reddit.
Wow, just tried opening boost (for reddit) and it actually loaded
You have to have admin on a subreddit i believe. I just made my own and then it works.
For a lot of the OGs on Reddit it got worse after the whole AMA Victoria thing. That was really when Reddit went downhill. Before that Reddit was amazing with AMAs that kept you refreshing constantly to be live in the chat, and posts that were funny and discussion that felt a bit more meaningful.
what happened?
I’m pulling all of this from memory, so YMMV… Victoria was a paid person from Reddit who worked on the AMA subreddit only. Her job was to basically go around and get celebrities and other interesting people to do AMAs and then would help schedule them and coordinate the whole thing. In some cases even helping to type out answers. If I’m recalling correctly Reddit just got too corporate and decided to terminate her out of the blue. The community fought back, but nothing big ever changed or happened. After she went away AMA basically turned into a shitshow of no one actually doing anything. She was legitimately a powerful tool at Reddit but they just got rid of her.
Oh yeah, I remember that now.
Yes! That was when it was so blatent to any die-hard users.
We can look at a million things over the years and say this is when it went wrong. It’s all hindsight 20/20. The reality is that we’re here now, and, at least for me, I enjoy it here. 💜
Why has the reddit mascot got chips on its head now?
It’s supposed to be a weird 3D voxel banana for some reason.
Ah it’s not a heavily oxygenated Mohawk from an 80s bad guy, I’m disappointed
But why did they blend a very hi-poly reddit alien with a super corny looking voxel banana?? It neither fits nor looks good?
Because it’s provocative
No, it’s not
It gets the people going.
Ball so hard!
They went back to skeuomorphic?
He’s a wild and crazy guy!! Click on this wild and crazy guy for a coupon at McDonald’s! Post three reddit posts telling us how great your McDonald’s experience was for another chance to win! Woo hoo!
These days if I wanna check reddit on my phone I just navigate to old.reddit on my phone’s browser.
I use Stealth for any niche groups over there that I still follow, and then if I really want to comment, I’ll login with old.reddit on my browser.
RIP I have an iPhone so I don’t get to use anything cool
Think about that next time you choose a phone.
For iOS just use this safari extension and access it through the browser.
The experience itself is pretty good.
redlib is also a pretty good front end: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
safereddit.com is one i used from time to time. there’s a bunch of other instances, as well
Wow this is fucking cool! Thanks man!
If you’re just lurking, RDX is a great alternative. An actual thick client and not a web app. I don’t know how the dev gets it to work but it’s great for when I just want to check my city’s sub.
You might appreciate Farside.link which catalogues all kinds of privacy-protecting front ends, and lets you bookmark a randomizer to automatically choose one for any service.
I use SearxNG’s redirect functionality to redirect all reddit links in the search results to a Redlib instance. It won’t affect URL bar links but that’s okay, I don’t directly go to Reddit anymore.
They’re starting to break functionality though. Sometimes old Reddit doesn’t load comments or work at all on specific subreddits.
I miss RiF sometimes :[
Same… Sync is my life now
RIP RiF.
Big RIP. Used to go on that site quite a lot back when it still had good clients
The writing was on the wall when reddit restricted buying awards in anything but the official app. For some reason, I even have a vivid recollection of where I was in the world when that went down.
Back in 2014 RIF was $2 one time purchase for a completely ad free experience. I knew that couldn’t last forever, but I enjoyed the 9 years I did have.
On the toilet?
Close! I was supposed to be working at the time.
I still have the app on my phone
Just in case
Right after S2 of Firefly
I never watched the last episode of season 1, I’m allowing myself the delusion that for me, it didn’t end
Oh man, I’m jealous. I uninstalled the app, but I’m pretty sure you can look up workarounds to make the app still work if you have it on your phone.
ReVanced has a project for it. It’s janky, but it works. For now.
Me too. I click a reddit link, and the app opens to remind me
I’m lucky, Boost was my app of choice. Now I just use it for Lemmy instead.
Which is how I learned about Lemmy. I opened Boost one day and was like… Wait, something’s off. : )
I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…
Yeah Voyager needs more polish. I have found Mlem to be more spiritual of the successor in terms of ui design.
Interesting. Just looked at Mlem for a minute and for some reason the Voyager UI agrees with me more.
The funny thing is Mlem offers higher contrast between different UI elements yet it is easier for me to differentiate between those elements in the lower contrast way that Voyager presents them.
Jerboa is similar enough in my head. Though, if I could time travel and get the 2023 experience then I might see that I’m misremembering.
I was hoping RiF’s dev would make an app for Lemmy. They did make one for Tildes though called three cheers for Tildes. I believe their username is talklittle.
Jerboa was real bad back then. Like, bad enough that I shelled out cash money to purchase Sync for Lemmy, which was another different old reddit front-end that now pivoted to Lemmy.
Overall though I’m now actually a big fan of Sync. It’s a good app. Does all that it needs to and not much more.
apollo was so nice to use
😭 Gone but not forgotten.
F for Respect, shall it forever stay
To keep each other company.
I still have it in the number one spot on the first page of my folder. It lives there forever.
Good news! You can now sideload it
I got great news for you!
Apollo exists for the fediverse!
Just look up „voyager“ app for iOS!
I currently just use the webapp (no difference to the app). To „install“ the webapp (iOS) just go to the website and create a shortcut on homescreen.
I love it and probably wouldn’t use lemmy without it!
Edit: I’m not affiliated
Edit2: source code on GitHub
FWIW the native app of Voyager definitely has more features than the PWA. Probably most notably haptics… PWA is a good options for those that want it though
oh wow, i had no idea! thanks for the info!
It not official, just heavily inspired by.
I have to ask, what’s up with those quotation marks?
Voyager because its a name of a thing and install because the Webapp is not really installed, it’s just a bookmark in safari that’s opened without the toolbars etc
I meant the quotation mark characters themselves. Is it a regional thing that I’m not familiar with as a dumb American? It’s just that I usually see them written like “this” instead of „this“.
to play devil’s advocate, from reddit’s view those third party apps were just using server resources and making them no money. Although yeah they could’ve handled it better by implementing different policies
Except you could post and comment through that medium, increasing their traffic, content and engagement without costing them a cent in development. Then they waited ten years beyond necessary to realise an app was indeed a good idea and fucked every user and developer to get theirs out and in front of people.
That’s a good point, i didn’t consider the value of the content it creates
I haven’t looked at the front page of Reddit since the exodus. I have used it to deshittify Google search results but that’s it. I imagine it’s absolute garbage by now.
Same. Unfortunately I still need to visit smaller subreddits to get answers on niche topics, but that’s my only use for it now. In and out; 10 minute adventure. Not spending all day on the front page like I used to. Any more time than that on the website, and I’ll just end up getting into an argument with some Gen Alpha idiot who feels the need to butt in and say something ignorant. 10-15 years ago you’d only see that kind of behavior during summer break. Now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.
I hope that one day I can finally abandon that shithole for good.
Even the smaller subreddits on niche topics seem to be dying. I suppose the lost good will (and loss of third party mod tools, or course) caused many of the superusers to leave.
A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.
Their reputation and their front page are both in the trash. It’s not a fun website to be on anymore.
Holy fuck, you’re right. They are all adults ish now. U nailed it with the /r/summerreddit take
I went and looked last night out of curiosity, and found absolutely vile racism on r/Canada talking about immigration. It was just shy of "deport them all’ in the comments.
Was it racist or did you just not like their opinion
Do you understand how housing shortage with price gouging, wage suppression and deteriorating social services will result in people not like immigrations?
Sounds like the regime fucked up and people expressing their political opinion on the issue.
But nahh… Just call people racist 🤡
They were racist and all around bigots in that sub reddit years before the housing issues, seems like you are defending shitty people.
I rarely touched that shithole called the front page. Mainly in Redditplanet for Windows Mobile, since you can’t login there.
Never used any of that clients always used offical New Reddit web client even on mobile. I moved to Lemmy because it’s FOSS. That’s all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
2023? I was thinking 2013.
Makes me 'member these informative graphics on 4chan ~2008 that categorized users into oldfags, newfags and cancer. Anyone else 'member?
Ah yes the elderfags. What a time.
Eternal September just won’t stop.
I miss bacon reader =[
I miss bacon reader too … sobs
rif gang
I still have it on my phone n open it’s corpse all the time out of habit when looking for sync. I should uninstall it.
I have the client for animelab which hasn’t existed since they got absorbed into crunchyroll. Maybe I’m just holding a grudge but I think there’s value in remembering what they took from you.
Relay for Reddit will always be my favorite. It had a nice tablet mode and the “swipe to do everything” interface was nice.
I have yet to find a decent replacement for it. Voyager is alright but I swear that it was designed to maximize unintentional button presses. It’s so easy to accidentally go to the community or the user’s profile when I just wanted to click on the post. And I can’t even count the number of times I accidentally collapsed a comment when I was trying to edit or upvote it instead. This is why the swiping interface was so nice. Made it almost impossible to unintentionally do the wrong action.
I miss Relay so much, but unfortunately the developer decided to play by Reddit’s rules and start charging people to use the app. So it’s never coming to Lemmy.
Oh God yes, I feel you on the Miss-clicks
Oh let’s look at the comments, downvote, ohh shit I need to, collapse, fuuuuck, uncollapse, inadvertently scrolls up now that it expanded, Hunt down the exact right one, swipe to upvote, miss, back to zero, sigh, carefully swipe over to upvote, tap for comments, end up in user’s profile… It’s not really an app that you can surf until you’ve had your coffee.
Have you tried Thunder? I’ve been using it since I finally got around to moving over here (admittedly not very long) and I’ve found that Thunder gets a lot right. It’s open source, ad-free, cross-platform, and nice to use. It doesn’t have quite as much polish as Relay but the design language is similar enough that it doesn’t feel like a huge departure.
I tried it a year ago; felt very much like an unfinished project. Too many missing features. Has it improved a lot since then?
I’ve only been on lemmy for like a month, so I have no point of comparison here. It doesn’t feel janky to me, but then I’m not a power user. It works well for what I like to do, which is view posts and comment. Images display well, I haven’t noticed any problems with video. I haven’t tried embedding images in comments yet, let’s try it with a photograph of the richest man in Indiana:
Give Thunder a second shot, or don’t. I’m not your boss, I’m just some drunk guy on the Internet.
Reddit made it unusable on mobile again.
I use Firefox + unlock, but naturally it’s just slower and less convenient than rif.
I use reddit a lot less now. Practically don’t use it on mobile as I noticed.
I miss Apollo. It was just so good.
I still use it to follow the war in Ukraine, but that’s it. It can burn once the Russians are defeated.
Apart from going there through a search engine I’ve never used Reddit again since they killed the API.
I use reddit for special interests. There are some subreddits which are unmatched sources in terms of expertise. Be it a game I am currently obsessed by or serious job related discussions about the newest embedded tech…
It’s sooo hard to get away from games. You’ve either got Discord which is a shit show, or reddit which is an ad riddled shit show, but at least the comment and discussions are relatively structured.
Oldreddit + Oldlander extension is way more convenient on mobile browser.
Now: RedditIsFucked
Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it’s probably better that I don’t spend as much time online.
reddit was not great after like 2015. It just completely shit the bed in 2023
