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Former Slide user here 🙋
I think the true cutoff for me with Reddit was when they perma banned me for commenting that I should in fact be allowed to punch nazis (pretty sure it was a mass report thing going on)
I was temp banned from all Reddit when I messaged the mods in a subreddit to complain about a post.
I think thousands of people did the same thing that day, it was a really obnoxious comment section that ticked off many ; but someone had connections and they issued everyone who complained a three day ban site wide.
Reddit mods can be such shitstains about… Well, pick a topic! They don’t like what you did, banned, asking about your ban? Banned from communicating with them for a month.
Hey, same!
Banned for attacking the user base.
I miss bacon reader =[
I miss bacon reader too … sobs
I miss RiF sometimes :[
I still have the app on my phone
Just in case
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
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
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.
Same… Sync is my life now
RIP RiF.
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.
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’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. : )
Big RIP. Used to go on that site quite a lot back when it still had good clients
Nowadays I barely use Reddit, but sometimes you end up forced to use an app, so I use Infinity with a custom API key
That works until reddit.old is killed. That will be next thing to go
I still use 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.
Anyone remember The Button or r/place? That was peak reddit for me since it brought together the entire community. When they stopped doing stuff like that despite the community’s love for it is around when I started seeing the writing on the wall that they were ultimately there to make money and couldn’t waste engineering hours on “frivolous” community engagement.
I have a hard time not personally blaming this on spez, tbh. After he lied about Apollo’s dev’s (I don’t remember which app) phone conversation then they showed up with the damn recording to prove it wrong.
Like, for real, the conversation was something like
- dev: Or you could just buy me out for $X ha
- spez: Are you threatening us?
- dev: What? No, it was just a joke, because you said it costs $X for my app to hit your server
- spez: oh, okay, I understand you now, I’m sorry.
Later…
- spez: This dev threatened us.
It really broke my heart. I loved Reddit, I was on it on RiF one my phone when I didn’t use my computer. It was great for finding all sorts of new stuff and it was genuinely fun. I’d had a few accounts for like a decade or something, but when they killed the alternate programs I just left and never looked back.
I miss RIF, but it’s for the better. Lemmy moves too slow for me to doomscroll it forever, so I’ve started putting my phone down more.
I’ve started reading books again, even in public, when I’m waiting for someone or something. My mind is slowing down and getting more peaceful.
This is the way.
Yeah, i didn’t realize how much i relied in Reddit to keep me informed on sports. I barely know what’s going in with my favorite teams, let alone the leagues anymore. But i couldn’t use anything other than RiF to browse Reddit, so i was done as soon as they axed the third party apps.
This is me on many topics. I am so uninformed over the last year.
I love Lemmy, but I’m in a smaller bubble than I was before too. There are a lot less political opinions on here. People are outright hostile to anything that doesn’t fit in a narrow window, and though I mostly agree with what passes through that window, my idea of the world is off because of it. (Example, my wife uses Facebook. We both voted for Harris, but she was certain Trump would win. She was seeing what everyone was saying and I wasn’t. Imagine my surprise when she lost the election so terribly. My little bubble had me convinced he didn’t stand a chance.)
I try occasionally to open Reddit. I know that Lemmy hates stock traders, but Reddit is where you get the best info on that. I’m a stay at home dad who contributes entirely by trading so I need to look at what people are researching from time to time.
I just can’t stand the Reddit app. I can’t stand clicking on ads without realizing it because of how they blend it in.
I can’t stand the kind of greed that led to the decision that killed third party apps.
I miss it, but not bad enough to have a subpar experience on there. That, and I believe in a federated social media future. Tech companies are garbage.
If you’re trading stocks based off Reddit info you should really know WTF you are doing and have additional sources of info to back up any decisions you are making because you are playing a very dangerous game. Unless you’ve already been investing for years and have a sizeable portfolio I would encourage you to reconsider the path you are on and build up some capital and knowledge before attempting any kind of active trading.
I don’t waste money I don’t have. I don’t follow anyone blindly.
I’m disciplined. If I’m not where I want to be, I wait. I wouldn’t risk everything I have.
I appreciate your concern, but if I lost every penny I have invested right here, right now, it would only hurt my feelings. I’ve already pulled out 10x what I’ve invested and I don’t get sad over big misses. I could have scooped up 200 free dollars this morning, but I didn’t.
It’s small time. I’m poor, I have no debt, and I wouldn’t risk a penny more than I can handle. I never break my own rules, so I’m good.
Seriously. I appreciate you.
That’s good to hear, I hope you’re able to keep it up. I’m sure you’ve heard this before but just in case, if you haven’t you should really consider also running a long term buy and hold portfolio. Fund that Roth IRA every year if you can. It’s a whole lot easier than active trading so it really shouldn’t take up much time and when you’re an old person you will be glad you’ve got that pile stashed away.
I’ve already messed up at this point haha. I spent my whole life allowing myself to be exploited for a promise that never came. I mean, I guess it still could (not really, but in a sense I guess). I’ve been instructed to go get some cash when so and so dies, and though I’m sure it’s still there, new obstacles have entered the fold.
I don’t know. If I can make enough to live today and buy a few beers I’m good.
I’ve been an idiot all of my life.
I’m going to take your advice though. I promise. Gonna get on that tomorrow. I recently made enough to increase my investing amount by 60%, which would be amazing for someone with actual money haha. I’ll throw that extra 60% into an IRA.
I am so uninformed over the last year
Being uninformed is ok as long as you pair it with knowing you’re uninformed.
Our Stupid Monkey Branes aren’t designed to be filled with doom all day long, they’re designed to know a handful of people in our tribe. It’s not healthy the way we chase after trying to know everything about everything in order to satisfy ourselves that we’re informed.
You’re absolutely right. Thank you.
You can use rdx for reddit browsing without interacting.
My gosh that Reddit app icon is horrible. It looks like a terrible meme NFT or something. …Which was probably the aesthetic they were going for, to be clear.
ik reddit has nfts,which makes sense.
Why the fuck are they using a 3D voxel banana as a hat for Snoo?
And why does Snoo look AI generated?
reddit recap logo. and because for some reason they want to do the exact opposite of what every other company does with their logos. (I’m a lemmy and reddit dual user)
apollo was so nice to use
Good news! You can now sideload it
😭 Gone but not forgotten.
F for Respect, shall it forever stay
I still have it in the number one spot on the first page of my folder. It lives there forever.
To keep each other company.
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
Edit3: it should be available for Android too. Unintentionally made it seem like it’s iOS exclusive
oh wow, i had no idea! thanks for the info!
It not official, just heavily inspired by.
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
rif gang
Now: RedditIsFucked
Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it’s probably better that I don’t spend as much time online.
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.
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 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.
Apart from going there through a search engine I’ve never used Reddit again since they killed the API.
Oldreddit + Oldlander extension is way more convenient on mobile browser.
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.
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 week, 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.
I wish someone would patch sync for reddit
I know about sync for Lemmy, just wondering if anyone figured out how to reuse the old app
I’ve been using it since the purge just fine. Revanced. Just make sure to get the 2nd last sync version, as the latest one has a nag that you can’t disable.
Sync for Lemmy is amazing.
It’s been patched for ages. I’ve certainly been using it daily since around August or September of 2023 including all day today.
Revanced is your friend
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.
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.
Holy fuck, you’re right. They are all adults ish now. U nailed it with the /r/summerreddit take
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.
Their reputation and their front page are both in the trash. It’s not a fun website to be on anymore.
A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.
I rarely touched that shithole called the front page. Mainly in Redditplanet for Windows Mobile, since you can’t login there.
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. 💜
Reddit is now run by people ugly 🫏 faces. 🤣
what
The comment you are replying has “ass” censored with a 🫏.
This is the first time I am seeing ass being censored in such manner. The more I ponder why the commenter did it, the funnier it gets – regardless of their intention.
i thought the emoji was an insect, perhaps a mozzie (due to poor eye’s sight). knowing now its a donkey (also called an ‘ass’) i dont think its as funny.
