• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    163·
    1 month 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.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 month 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.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      37·
      1 month 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.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        18·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          10·
          1 month ago

          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.

        • ultranaut@lemmy.world
          5·
          1 month ago

          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.

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
            7·
            1 month ago

            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.

            • ultranaut@lemmy.world
              3·
              30 days ago

              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.

              • theangryseal@lemmy.world
                3·
                30 days ago

                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.

        • GNUTup@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          14 days ago

          I’ve only recently made the switch to Lemmy, and for what it’s worth, I’ve been using Apollo for Reddit the entire time. It’s fairly easy to set up if you check out r/sideloaded or r/apolloapp over on Reddit. Might make your money-job a bit less frustrating to work on :)

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      1 month 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.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      14·
      1 month ago

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

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          1 month 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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      1 month 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.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        30 days ago

        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.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        4·
        1 month ago

        Which is how I learned about Lemmy. I opened Boost one day and was like… Wait, something’s off. : )

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    1 month 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
      20·
      1 month ago

      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. 💜

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        1 month ago

        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.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    58·
    1 month ago

    For me it’s not the app ecosystem. Reddit used to feel like it was a platform run by its community now its very company run and controlled.

    • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      1 month ago

      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.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
      8·
      1 month ago

      Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it’s probably better that I don’t spend as much time online.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        30 days ago

        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.

      • ebolapie@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
          1·
          29 days ago

          I tried it a year ago; felt very much like an unfinished project. Too many missing features. Has it improved a lot since then?

          • ebolapie@lemmy.world
            2·
            28 days ago

            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:

            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.

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Baggie@lemmy.zip
        4·
        30 days ago

        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.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    36·
    1 month ago

    I pay the yearly subscription for Sync Pro, and I consider it a donation more than anything. I’ve gotten so many years out of that app, and the developer choosing to repurpose it to Lemmy made my transition here almost seamless from reddit.

    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      1 month ago

      Wait, Sync for Lemmy is a subscription and not a one time purchase? Boost’s dev did a similar transition but only standard one time purchase there.

      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
        7·
        1 month ago

        There’s a one time purchase to remove ads and a subscription for features like machine translation or importing/exporting your communities. It’s $17 yearly or $100 lifetime

    • Kurroth@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      Hadn’t seen the variation of pasta before. Feels like the perfect X years later of the original

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      I’m the same, and had paid for it during the Reddit days of the app. I’m hesitant to pay a subscription this time around, though, since the creator has always left for months and come back with a flurry of updates - which is entirely up to them, but a turn-off for something I’ll pay for periodically.

      Sync is still my daily driver, and IMO few Lemmy clients come close.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    27·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      18·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        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.

        • vividspecter@lemm.ee
          5·
          30 days ago

          A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 month ago

        Holy fuck, you’re right. They are all adults ish now. U nailed it with the /r/summerreddit take

      • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
        4·
        28 days ago

        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.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 month 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)

    • actually@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • Aeri@lemmy.world
        4·
        30 days ago

        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.