• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 hours ago

    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.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      7·
      51 minutes ago

      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.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      2·
      35 minutes ago

      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.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    1·
    33 minutes ago

    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)

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 hour ago

    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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      13 minutes ago

      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.
  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    4 hours ago

    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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      11 minutes ago

      We can look at a million things over the years and say this is when it went wrong. It’s all hi Dwight 20/20. The reality is that we’re here now, and, at least for me, I enjoy it here. 💜

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      10 minutes ago

      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.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…

      • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        1·
        35 minutes ago

        Yeah Voyager needs more polish. I have found Mlem to be more spiritual of the successor in terms of ui design.

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          11 minutes ago

          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.

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      5 hours ago

      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.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.world
        28·
        5 hours ago

        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.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    5 hours ago

    So, did Reddit lose a considerable amount of user base since then or not?

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
      34·
      4 hours ago

      Not really. They’re sort of succeeding. They just became profitable, I think, for the first period ever.

      Got more users on Lemmy though, including me, so that’s a win in my book.

        • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 minutes ago

          It’s occasionally mentioned in movies, series and animation.

          Ngl, i was expecting many more people to leave Reddit. The outrage was almost palpable. Big subreddits going private and all.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      4 hours ago

      From a statistics standpoint, definitely not.

      As of Q4 of 2023, reddit claimed 36.4 million logged-in ‘daily active’ users. An increase from Q3 of 2023 with a count of 34.7 million. Not sure of the accuracy of user counts for lemmy, but good estimate is about 450,000 total users over it’s entire lifespan, if every single one of those was a reddit convert, we’d still be a minor blip. I don’t know if we have 2024 numbers that are comparable, but most stats indicate that reddit is likely still growing.

      Spez predicted what would happen in that protest with almost 100% accuracy and most mods involved didn’t follow through and backed down. Some are trying to build something new and that’s worth pursuing but we lost that fight.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 hour ago

        I do have to wonder how many of those millions of users are bots. Browsing /r/all, you can find plenty of weird pseudopornographic subreddits like /r/ReallyGorgeous, which are populated by literally thousands of bots upvoting and commenting on fake selfies posted by the most obviously stolen accounts. Report these accounts all you want, the admins don’t care.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      5 hours ago

      Depends on what you mean by that. A small fraction left but it was sizable enough for Lemmy to become my home.

    • NutinButNetEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      No. Too many users were used to the trash official app because that’s how many of them came to find Reddit because of the app’s release.

      Can’t know what you’re missing if you never experienced it.

      But honestly that’s partly why Reddit was going down the tubes when all these Facebook folk started coming to “that new app Reddit” and treating it like Fb 2.0 so it was for the best for the rest of us to leave and find alternatives.