if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that’ll come in the morning if so)
Just got my push notification from Sync. “It’s been a hell of a ride.”
It actually hurt my soul a little to hit that uninstall button. Maybe I’ll try the Lemmy version when LJ makes it public. Don’t know. Kind of liking the alternatives purely because it feels like a fresh start without the reddit baggage.
Got the notification as well :(. Haven’t been on it since lemmy but it was still a sad feeling. I’ll definitely be trying out sync for lemmy when its released.
Bought the full version like 10 years ago because, funnily enough I didn’t want ads when browsing Reddit.
I’m loving the organized chaos over here better.
I was up-to-date on everything and knew 3rd party apps were shutting down, but it still felt like it wasn’t going to happen. One of those ‘oh surely they won’t let it get that far’ moments, but nope. Poof. All gone.
I’m struggling to do it too man ;_; I don’t want to let go… I want reddit to come to its senses. After all the shit we’ve been through in the past 4 years, this is like a swift kick right in the ribs while we were already curled up on the ground in agony.
I don’t know how to accept this “reality”…
I’m not uninstalling rif. It’s going to sit there until I get a new phone.
Same, after 10 years using SyncPro…
And LJ better hurry up because there is multiple apps now and seriously, Connect is pretty good and the guy updates it multiple times a day.
Jerboa is nice too but broken for all 0.17 instances…
Unsure if this is off-topic for this thread so feel free to delete if that’s the case.
/r/firefox now looks like this.
I can’t help but love when subreddits do this in response to the threat of removing mods if they stay private. I remember there were some that were posting “sexy” pics of John Oliver. iPhone was limited to posting “sexy” pics of Tim Cook. Working with what they have in order to continue their protests. I like it😁
It has malicious compliance written all over it 🙃
It forces Reddit’s hand even more IMO; if you start forcing a sub to stay on a certain topic by admin order (and not by mod’s / community “owner” choice), it really sets a weird tone for the community
If admins want to force certain subs to stay on certain topics, they can moderate them by their own f#ckin’ selves.
I for one love these new changes to the Firefox Reddit 🦊
oh, the teddit thing looks neat, like a perfect backhand slap. good enough to just see and not interacting. I didn’t know how much history on reddit until I run the power delete suite script, it just keeps going. 9 years sure has a lot of stuff on it. XD
Yep, Teddit works well for me because I don’t have a Reddit account. It’s quick and privacy respecting. I think I may have found it through the Privacy Redirect extension for Firefox.
Unfortunately teddit and libreddit rely on the API so many instances may break tomorrow
I think you’re probably correct.
Hahahahahaha hahahahahaha
/Wipes tear
RIF no longer showing content for me :( It’s over. 6 years of being my most used app on my phone
Same. It just says 429 for me. I can’t believe it’s really gone!
Same seeing 429 😢
Rest In Pieces reddit
429 never forget
4+2=6
69 confirmed.
Rest In Pieces reddit
Same here. I tried a few times past midnight but there it went. End of an era - gonna be one hell of a difficult habit to go cold turkey on. Hopefully Lemmy can fill the void…
I never would have guessed when I first installed RIF that some years later I would end up feeling sad as I uninstalled it.
No threads here. Tap to refresh.
Same here, went dark as I was scrolling. Guess that’s it for me on Reddit in any kind of meaningful way.
I just fired up Apollo for the first time in two weeks to see if things loaded, and it’s crashing instantly.
11 years here. One of the first apps I installed on my very first smartphone.
Same, it’s been such a big part of my life. Thought I would have more time with it today :'(
First post! I just want to drop a hint to anyone else coming from Apollo — I just installed wefwef.app and, despite the weird name, it is insanely close to an exact replica. I’m honestly surprised a PWA can work this well.
Also,
FUCK SPEZ
RISE LEMMYI’m using wefwef now, coming off of using Reddit Sync, and it’s delightfully intuitive. I’m super bummed about reddit imploding, but hey, at least we have a new place.
It’s like how every time there’s a group chat, it spontaneously spawns a new, smaller group chat “without the annoying people”.
Where does one find wefwef? A quick search didn’t give me anything obvious, and it’s not on the app store
Ah, right — try wefwef.app, and be sure to install to your Home Screen to get the full benefits of the PWA capabilities (check the settings tab, or if on iOS, tap the “share” icon in safari and select that option).
Updated my original comment with the link as well.
Its not a native app, basically an alternative web view, that you can add to your homescreen
Yes, using this right now and it’s helping me feel like I’m still on Reddit. :)
Wow no kidding, it is way better than jerboa. I’m not sure why people demand native apps for everything, this PWA is super smooth.
Connect is worth a try if you really want stand alone. I’m about to try out werwer on your recommendation
Ooh, thank you for fhe recommendation. I’m using connect now and it is a lot more stable than a lot of the other apps.
I can’t get it to load any comments :(
It seems to have this problem on and off. Couldn’t load any comments yesterday, but it seems fine today. I do wish that it wasn’t just a copy of Apollo because I keep expecting Apollo quality as I interact with it. Though it is remarkable for a webapp.
It seems to have this problem on and off. Couldn’t load any comments yesterday, but it seems fine today. I do wish that it wasn’t just a copy of Apollo because I keep expecting Apollo quality as I interact with it. Though it is remarkable for a webapp.
They just pushed an update that might fix that for you. According to the release notes —Fix API failure causing annoying redirect
Maybe that was causing your issue…I dkNevermind, it seems to be an issue connecting to lemmy.world. The 0.9.1 release notes address this.
I’ve already been removed as a mod. Oh no! Anyway…
More time to scroll through Lemmy now.
And now RiF is just memories. I hope Beehaw and the Fediverse grow and become something great
It was so very fun to use third-party apps for Reddit until the last day. Today will be the new dawn for kbin and Lemmy apps. Reddit before, now Threadiverse.
Welp, Sync Pro just went dark for me. Guess I’m done with Reddit.
Same, very sad, my most used app now gone. Guess now reddit will finally see how much damage they have done to the site. Bring on sync for lemmy!
“Rate limited” for you too?
If they really do shut off API access I’ll go into partial link aggregator withdrawal. My Lemmy instance still isn’t upgraded to the latest versions which are compatible with apps, so I don’t browse on my phone.
Try using the Progressive Web App (PWA) instead. I’m on iOS and haven’t found a good app for Lemmy yet but the PWA has helped me get used to Lemmy on my phone in place of Reddit. You just open the site in your phone’s native browser (Safari on iOS, probably Chrome on Android?) and choose “Save to Home Screen”. Now it looks like any other app and behaves like it too, even though it’s secretly just the web page.
Second the PWA, it’s pretty decent.
I think on Android you can do it with any browser that supports it (I do believe Firefox has the support too). On iOS Safari is the only browser anyway, the others are cosmetic and functional improvements, but have to use Webkit for the actual website displaying stuff
Just tossing this out there, I’m commenting from memmy (iOS) and it’s great. Still beta and incomplete but really nice UI and themes. New features being added literally daily. Feels much more native and usable than the web interface.
Works great with kbin.social
I’m on iOS and I just tried this but I don’t have a back button when I open lemmy that way.
Do you also have that issue? I’ll probably use it anyways but I’m pretty sure I’m on iOS 17 beta so I wanted to ask
There is no back button. You swipe left-to-right (from the left edge of the screen) to go back.
I just use a browser tab. Same as PWA but with refresh buttons etc.
Join the Memmy TestFlight. We’re getting updates pretty much every day.
Mine isn’t either. Lemmy and Thunder still work with it tho
The web interface is pretty good (while we wait for the issues with the latest version to get ironed out). I’m hoping for that arm64 docker image, myself. My instance I’m hosting on my RaspberryPi is incompatible with Jerboa.
Relay appears to be attempting to reduce API calls and stay open.
Edit: I just found this patch to use our own API key if Relay gets taken down.
Why bother honestly
There are three possibilities.
- The developer thinks maybe they can make this work. Maybe there’s a combination of a lower limit of API calls and an upper limit of what people are willing to pay for their app that will let them keep going.
- The developer’s lawyer recommended that to sue reddit for destroying their livelihood they would need to demonstrate that they had tries with the new system and it wasn’t feasible in order to make their case stronger
- The developer wants to take advantage of the third party landscape being just them now
Personally I think the first one is the most likely. It seems naive and bound for failure. But its also the least conspiracy theory and doesn’t assume malice
The developer’s lawyer recommended that to sue reddit for destroying their livelihood they would need to demonstrate that they had tries with the new system and it wasn’t feasible in order to make their case stronger
Not sure how you get a cause of action for someone else’s business decisions messing with your business, as a general rule. How would that work? I’m legitimately curious.
Oh man I just answered someone else asking about that as well. Basically my stance is that the people who think that are wrong, but that the argument would need to be grounded on the concept that Reddit’s actions were not in line with their agreements. I don’t think anyone would (or should) take this up as I think it’s a very weak argument and Reddit has more legal power than a third party developer possibly could.
As I said in my comment, I think that the most likely is just this developer thinks they can maybe make this work
Is Reddit as a business responsible for providing a livelihood for a third party developer? What would they be suing over? On what grounds?
It would not be on the grounds that Reddit is responsible for providing livelihood, but instead that Reddit failed to live up to their promises and agreements. Personally, I think that’s the least likely of the three as there’s almost no way a third party app developer has the lawyers to take on Reddit’s legal team, and it sounds like a really weak case. It’s jsut something I’ve seen people theorizing so I wanted to put it into the world. As I said, I think this is just as simple as the developer thinks they can make this work
I agree, I’m OK to let that website die. We really are ready for decentralization and we just need to deal with the growing pains. But it will happen eventually.
Doesn’t matter, paid will due shortly after people realize there’s no NSFW content. Not just porn, everything flagged NSFW won’t show up at all. Everything from AMA to TV show discussions will be impacted.
I’m pretty sure reddit said explicitly that everything marked NSFW will not be filtered out.
They also said they won’t force subs to reopen
Yeah, that’s fair. And they also said earlier this year that they won’t change anything about the API in at least a few years.
And they said they’d be introducing better mod tools and accessibility in their app.
Golly there’s a lot of things they said they’d do that aren’t actually manifest yet.
Which leads to the only conclusion, reddit admins lie
Spez has already said that doing this {when talking about Apollo} is “not allowed”, so likely this method will get blocked or your account will get banned. You’re here now so IMO it doesn’t matter
Why wouldn’t it be allowed? They don’t want to deal with billing a bunch of people?
Because the goal was to ban third party apps and they don’t want people trying to dodge it. u/spez seems to be personally offended by their existence and wants them gone.
Couldn’t have said it better myself
There’s also a patch for Sync for reddit, apparently you can use your own API key and app name. I’ll give it a look once sync stops working tomorrow.
Now we just need someone to find the api key used by the official app …
Well the official app uses a new internal (graphql iirc) API, so that would be nice but it wouldn’t really work as easily as that.
My friend mentioned Reddit is Fun is shut down now. Sad day 😔
429
I didn’t really follow the recent “drama” (for lack of a better term), but I’m glad it came about because it created a lot of buzz on hackernews about reddit alternatives which got me to check out the Fediverse (kbin/lemmy), and a few other alternatives. I really like the look and feel of Discuit, but it’s inevitable for it to become essentially another digg v4/reddit 2.0 clone because apart from a nice UI and the creator/owner not being a dick, it’s still a centralised forum that will limit or censor discussion at the whims of the owner in the end. I don’t want that.
@datawraith @alyaza agree about Discuit. I was speaking about it with people and came to same conclusion. “Like people trust companies, I see how more and more companies ditch people and more blatant at that. So all he brings up is, I am reddit 2.0. please come.” Not everyone have been burn from company decisions but with it trending so much lately and Shithead mention Lemon sucks as his good example, tells how little this rich guys circle is. So Disquit dev telling that people trust companies?
I’ve been using bacon reader for 9 years. I keep wanting to feel sad that it’s my last day on Reddit* but I really don’t. *I’ll probably check in sometimes at home as long as I can use old Reddit. But honestly my only time to read it has been during the day during downtime at work. I get home and have much better things to do then sit on Reddit.
Just a test.
Do you double tap to do a line break?
We’ll see if this worked
You can also add to spaces at the end of the line for ‘just a line break’
like
so
Same here, loved BaconReader, (not sire why it’s not mentioned that often)
got the message popup yesterday ;-(
But you are right, might be a good moment to detox a bitAlso old Baconreader user. Really hope it comes to Lemmy. But didn’t seem like it.
RIP Sync for reddit 😢 I hope Sync for Lemmy will be even better!!
- 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈 ( @MedicPigBabySaver@beehaw.org ) English22•11 months ago
Fuck Spez
