The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark (www.theverge.com)

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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] beppi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] plum@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] EthanolParty@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

rip rif

[-] fernandorincon@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I'm here because baconreader died. Hi everyone!

[-] TGQP@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] kiddblur@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Man what a bummer. Just deleted my 13 year old account.

[-] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Got the message on BR about an hour ago.

[-] Johnnyari@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Same, definitely a bummer. The official reddit app is so awful. Lemmy it is...

[-] fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I had been a Baconreader Premium user for 10 years, kinda sad to see it go.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 3 points 1 year ago

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. ;) )

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] nogreens@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I noticed ReddPlanet was down today. Just checked it out of curiosity. Haven’t been on Reddit in a few weeks.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Slide for Lemmy already has an alpha version

[-] DrummyB@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I deleted my Reddit account.

Not going back.

But it’s sad…

[-] leosin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] closure1170@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sync is dead. Long live sync.

[-] SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Rip sync. You were the best.

Looking forward to the Lemmy version

[-] joelthelion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TheInternetCanBeNice@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] joelthelion@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] TheInternetCanBeNice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] joelthelion@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] TheInternetCanBeNice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] CaptainFlaherty@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck Reddit. Immediately deleted my account and came here

[-] TheVanimal@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I’m here from Apollo. A very sad day but I look forward to what this may become.

[-] pinwurm@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ribbits

[-] Jode@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago

My Relay app still seems to be working

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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