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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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I hope we get better content. I'm really tired of all the posts on the frontpage being meta. Like i had to scroll to find anything about the student loan news. I go to reddit and boom I get actual content still.
.. i want conversations about things that aren't lemmy or reddit. .. memes are cool but man most of the frontpage that isn't meta is memes. .. Fingers crossed it gets better soon.
I agree... but this is probably the last big reddit thing for a while, so I think the reddit and lemmy stuff will die down from now
I'm posting often in foodporn and my little communities.
I need to stop my Lurking habits and contribute. We need to all do our part to provide content
I created a bunch of communities. I'm trying to post on them but I need help. We need more contributors.
It'll come. Early days of reddit I remember being annoyed at all digg posts.
I joined Lemmy during the blackout. Obviously it was crazy for a few days, but the last week and a half has been news, memes, and real conversations. Really enjoying it here so far!
It’s a lot better once you start subbing to groups instead of just browsing the front page.
Man what a bummer. Just deleted my 13 year old account.
I'm here because baconreader died. Hi everyone!
Got the message on BR about an hour ago.
Same, definitely a bummer. The official reddit app is so awful. Lemmy it is...
I had been a Baconreader Premium user for 10 years, kinda sad to see it go.
I've now been tricked twice into breaking my Reddit boycott just to check and see if Infinity still works or not, and it still does.
Maybe Infinity just has enough fewer users than something like Apollo that Infinity hasn't reached the request limit to where it's been shut off yet.
(I don't actually mean I was tricked. ;) )
Currently you can type libreddit.hu/r/ in front of any subreddit and avoid Reddit directly, not sure what's happening to that domain with the changes.
I meant that I loaded up Infinity specifically to check and see if Infinity still worked or not. Not to access any particular Reddit content. But Infinity still worked for me after I first saw this thread.
Edit: Ah, and I just realized I might have misunderstood you, not the other way around. Sorry about that.
From what i heard recently, infinity is going to be subscribtion based from now on.. so probably devs didnt stop app from working but are yet to implement subsciption
Interesting. I'm not sure how that works with an Open Source app. Will the API key be in the source repo? Will there be a server that Infinity routes through that adds the API key to the request? Will future versions of Infinity be proprietary? I'll probably look into it at some point.
This is so short sighted by the Reddit C suite. It makes literally no sense for them to kill these apps when every argument they made for killing them was in bad faith.
I was still using Slide, I was hoping it was under the radar enough that it would squeak by but nope. Goodbye Reddit. I was user 4163 16 years ago, and now it's time to get the fediverse up and going.
I noticed ReddPlanet was down today. Just checked it out of curiosity. Haven’t been on Reddit in a few weeks.
20 million a year? That’s wild, shame to see apps start to fall.
Right?! And then when being asked if they could maybe charge $10 million (or give people 6 months to figure things out), they just said no. I can't remember another company that blatantly cut off all partner relationships like that.
I think the reasoning is that Reddit didn't realize these *were *partner relationships. They thought these apps were just taking and not actually helping.
Reddit didn’t even just say no, but framed the $10m comment as Christian threatening Reddit 🔪
Been a redditor since 2010, RiF user from about 2015 on, then Apollo user since 2020. There’s a few work related subs I’ll still visit occasionally on a web browser (using old.reddit of course) but other than that I’m officially done.
I deleted my Reddit account.
Not going back.
But it’s sad…
My Relay app still seems to be working
A few apps that have a smaller amount of users have been granted a delay in which they can set up a subscription scheme.
We don't know yet what the subscription cost is going to be and whether the whole thing will be sustainable. It's not clear to me for example what will happen if the users/traffic for these apps eventually rises (which is bound to happen if they're the only ones left standing). Or why a deal couldn't be reached with the large apps too.
Not to mention the whole sour taste, a couple months ago if Reddit had come out and said "we're putting all 'power user' stuff behind a paywall, pay a sub directly to us to help us out" I would've seriously considered it. Now, not so much.
IDGAF all lemmy all day
Sad moment in time
Sync is dead. Long live sync.
Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow and we get more content..
Rip sync. You were the best.
Looking forward to the Lemmy version
Can't wait for it either! hopefully just a few short weeks. In the meantime, Lift and Connect have been performing great.
I wonder if this will have any effect on Reddit's metrics? The blackout had almost no effect, and certainly no lasting effect. But this might.
Not that I care, though. Lemmy is active enough nowadays, and I'm pretty sure it's going to continue growing now.
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I’m here from Apollo. A very sad day but I look forward to what this may become.
Memmy for iOS currently being reviewed by Apple, should hit the App Store in a day or two. You can download the Test Flight now if you don’t want to wait.
Inspired by Apollo - and works amazingly with Lemmy. I’m using now.
Some other apps are out there in beta and being approved now. Mlem, Liftoff… it’s a good time to switch.
Ribbits
https://lemmy.ml/c/memmy
https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy
They're definitely working on an Android version, I just don't know if a beta is up or not.
Fuck Reddit. Immediately deleted my account and came here
I'm here from using Joey for Reddit. I'm surprised it seems like it wasn't as popular as the other third party apps. It was great for me
Making our own reddit, with blackjack and hookers
Boost is currently up, but they announced they'd be shutting down by tomorrow anyways. At least Lemmy / Kbin seem to be decent replacements so far. Here's hoping they continue to fill with lots of new interesting discussions and then I'll be done with Reddit for good.
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