I’m here from Apollo. A very sad day but I look forward to what this may become.
Check out wefwef.app. It will feel familiar.
Can not stress this enough. It’s helping a lot with the move
Holy shit. That’s so cool. Thanks for sharing! Definitely gonna become my main way to browse Lenny for the moment
Wefwef +1. Same UI, feel right at home.
You van even export your Apollo data, and it will help you find similar communities to the subs you were following
Would it work for boost for reddit? Or is ot only apollo?
Sync user here. I guess I’m done with my reddit addiction starting today.
the fun part is that it just turns into a lemmy addiction :)
Hah lemmy get in on that good stuff
Liftoff for Lemmy feels similar so far while we wait for the Sync port.
Same. Sad day
Me too, it died mid browse for me, it was something else - right after I sent spez a FU DM too from Apollo.
there are already several different app options for lemmy in different states of development;
jerboa, memmy, mlem, wefwef, thunder, and several others i cant think of off top. Definitely try them all out cus there are differences for sure. My personal favorite right now is memmy followed by wefwef thunder and mlem.
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.
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https://lemmy.ml/c/memmy
https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmyThey’re definitely working on an Android version, I just don’t know if a beta is up or not.
I’m finding Memmy a great way to use Lemmy. It’s come on so much from just a few weeks ago and I believe it’s being submitted to the App Store right about now.
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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
When I first joined during the Reddit protests, it was all meta talk. Then as of last week it was really starting to fill with actual content, but now with the API shutting down I expect it will be a lot of meta talk again for a bit.
Agree, but it’ll die down. The whole reason that 90% of the people are here is because of reddit so it’ll stay news for a bit.
I’m posting often in foodporn and my little communities.
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!
The “hot” front page STILL has posts from days ago.
I give it 3 days before people cave and go back. People will always find a way to get their dopamine fix. If lemmy doesn’t have what they want, suffering through the shitty Reddit app will be a cakewalk compared to giving up the habit altogether
For now, use Top>Today.
For now, use Top>Today.
For now, use Top>Today.
rip rif
Rif was my app. I shall miss it, but Lemmy makes it better.
But fuck reddit and spez. For profit sucks.
❤
Best app
RIP Apollo
Was very sad to have to hit the delete button on Apollo, but now Memmy is in its place.
I’ll be keeping Apollo around purely for nostalgia, it’ll always have its place in app heaven on my phone.
Right next to Alien Blue.
Alien Blue </3
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. ;) )
Infinity is going to move forward with a premium account system, they basically just funnel money into Reddit for no good reason.
Access to the free Infinity should go away soon.
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.
Infinity is free until they get the subscription stuff sorted out
I think infinity may be one of the few planning to move forward with a subscription model in the next few months. Reddit is making an exception on the timeframe for 2 or 3 apps that said they would implement the ridiculously priced subscription model where they’ll mostly just line Reddit and Apple’s pockets.
I’m here from Apollo…
Damn. What a loss.
Check out https://wefwef.app/ Lemmy web app Apollo clone; it’s fantastic. Install it as a PWA and enjoy.
I hope it provides you some relief from the tragedy
What a shame. What a rotten way to die.
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 🔪
Man what a bummer. Just deleted my 13 year old account.
I just went and posted on Reddit one last time; from Alien Blue. Said goodbye to Apollo devs.
It’s kinda weird to have just stopped posting somewhere where my account was 12 years old. Oh well, on to new things I guess!
16 years and I feel you.
From Alien Blue!?
Yup I still have it on my phone! I should see if it still works today but I really just kinda want to be done with Reddit.
I wonder if it’s the same API key as the official app lol; the official app is Alien Blue, they just turned it into a mutant
EDIT:still works lol!
What the heck how is that it still works lol
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.
I’m actually sad about this, Apollo Is the only app I’ve really used every day since I got an iPhone.
Rest in peace.
A sad, sad day. Here is to greener pastures with the fedeverse!
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.
Reddit’s metrics are ad sales. And I think the impact here is going to be slower, and take longer.
Twitter’s fall has been faster because existing competitors like Facebook and Instagram can take some of their users, Mastadon takes another chunk, and Substack launched their Twitter clone Notes already. Not to mention Bluesky’s expanding public beta. If you liked Twitter and want that experience somewhere else, you’ve got good options.
Reddit has no real competitor. There’s stuff like Hacker News, but their community is small and extremely toxic. Nothing else comes close. Until there’s a true Reddit competitor, their demise will be slow and could be easily turned around.
You and I are of course on Lemmy. But lets be real, Lemmy isn’t a competitor to reddit. As I write this comment there are 3 users online in this community. And given how there’s already a huge amount of in-fighting and defederating amoung different Lemmy instances, this will never really take off.
Regular people don’t want to sign up for a service and only to have it suddenly become much less useful overnight because they failed some purity test they didn’t even know they were taking.
I’m mainly talking about metrics with more immediate impact, such as new posts and comments: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
I know this won’t impact Reddit’s business line immediately, but it will eventually, and I’d be surprised if they weren’t paying attention.
Re: competition, I agree Lemmy isn’t going to absorb all of Reddit right away. But it might make a dent. Also, some Redditors might abandon Reddit in favor of other social networks, or even give up on this activity altogether.
There’s stuff like Hacker News, but their community is small and extremely toxic.
WTF? HN is one of the best communities. What exactly is “toxic” about it?
WTF? HN is one of the best communities. What exactly is “toxic” about it?
Their years long harrasment campaign against one of the main developers on OpenGL because she’s trans, and the project lead for AsahiLinux because he stood up for her come to mind. I’m interested in graphics stacks (because I’m bad at it myself) and you basically can’t discuss OpenGL there because they hate Alyssa Rosenzweig for existing.
There’s a reason why lots of people block them entirely and that HN doesn’t respect those blocks basically tells you all you need to know.
Re: competition, I agree Lemmy isn’t going to absorb all of Reddit right away. But it might make a dent.
This won’t happen. As soon as any one instance of Lemmy grows other instances will just defederate it (like so many Mastodon instances wanted to do with mastodon.social) and kill whatever growth there is.
I don’t mind that Lemmy will remain small. It’s fine by me, but anyone expecting Reddit to ever notice Lemmy is kidding themselves.
Their years long harrasment campaign against one of the main developers on OpenGL because she’s trans, and the project lead for AsahiLinux because he stood up for her come to mind
I think you’re confusing a few users with the community as a whole. I’ve read a lot of Asahi linux threads and only saw positive comments. I’m also very surprised to see accusations against Dang. He seems to be a very nice and balanced individual. Would you have any links to these attacks on HN that were not moderated?
There’s a saying here in Germany that roughly goes “If you’re at a dinner with 1 Nazi and 9 people who say nothing, that’s a dinner with 10 Nazis”. That’s how it is with HN. They can’t hide behind “just some commenters” when they’ve got years long harrasment campaigns and then update HN’s code in order to get arround Hector’s attempts to stem the tide.
The comments are all gone now. But as Hector points out, it takes weeks or months for the moderators to actually do anything. In my opinion they don’t get credit for removing these comments once the threads are stale.
And then when people try to limit HN traffic to their site and stop the harrasment campaign, Dang updates HN to order to circumvent it.
The Asahi team got a massive amount of harassment from HN, it took HN weeks to remove any comments, months to remove them all, but they were very keen on getting around Hector’s HN block.
I’m here because baconreader died. Hi everyone!
