Speaking of notifications, that menu used to be just for comment responses. Nowadays Reddit is using it to push me some “popular” posts I couldn’t care less about.
Same here. I had every notifications toggle switched off but direct messages and I still kept getting “recommended” posts. It’s basically malware at that point lol.
With the 3rd party apps I didn’t get exposed to any of this garbage, but now that I have to use the browser, I can’t avoid the tsunami of anti-user features. Quitting Reddit has never been easier.
Judging from the slowdowns and hiccups around here, yeah, I’d say that was “some”. And we’re not done yet either. Plenty of people in the world party on friday and saturday. Plenty of people in the US are camping or something on an extended weekend.
Everyone checks it eventually as the week rolls on though. Kinda fortunate for us, really. Spreads the influx out.
As soon as Apollo stopped working, i deleted it and moved Memmy to Apollo’s spot. I will miss it and enjoyed the developers work on it but I’m done with Reddit unless my troubleshooting work points me there.
Normally I would get my news from Reddit but I have Apple News and that works fine for now while Lemmy ramps up.
I knew it was getting bad nearly a year ago when they permanently banned my 12-year-old account for “threatening violence.” When I warned someone else that their rhetoric could be understood as such.
They and their friends went on a mass reporting spree and it took a month to get the ban overturned.
Narwahl decided to try the subscription model. It should cost around 4-7 €/month. Unfortunately, I don’t think Reddit is that valuable to me, so I’ll just stick with Lemmy instead.
Not being able to browse on mobile killed it for me. Most of my browsing was on mobile via Apollo. I refuse to get the official app after this stunt so now I’m just not using Reddit.
Luckily wefwef is making the transition easy and familiar.
Yup, that’s me. I’m still a little surprised at how easy (thanks Spez) it actually was for being such a heavy consumer of Reddit. Doing Christian wrong like that, as well as the many popular 3rd party apps and their loyal users, just didn’t sit right with me. Spez chose the nuclear option, instead of actually working with and potentially helping to grow the site along with 3rd party devs, so this is the resulting fallout. He asked for it, so he got it.
I stopped using reddit the second Apollo stopped working, and I don’t think I’ve truly missed it once since then, I’m optimistic things will get far better with time as more people join lemmy.
Well I just stopped going to reddit. The only way O used reddit was apollo.
I put lemmy icon on the aplllo place cos I kept unconsciously clicking it even though I knew it wont work.
I did the exact same. Apollo has been relegated to the graveyard on my phone. Gone but never forgotten. Wefwef is in the same location so I stop opening up discord by accident trying to click on Apollo.
Mod for a medium-sized city subreddit, here. I have absolutely no idea how I’m going to be able to keep modding for it, now that apps like Apollo and RIF are dead. It is functionally impossible to mod effectively with the official app (let alone the mobile site).
I’m not quite ready to just abandon the city community I spent so much time assisting - I mean, they’re my friends and neighbors, not just my subreddit subscribers. But if they move to Lenny en masse, I’ll join them, and say goodbye to Reddit permanently.
There’s already a Lemmy community for the city, and I’m watching it closely to see if it takes off. So far, the signs are good, but the Reddit community is still a lot more active.
Maybe that will change as uses realize we simply can’t effectively moderate it anymore.
I would love to start a community for my city here but I honestly can’t figure out how the syntax works to start one. Every time I try to create one I get an error.
When did you try? The devs are stamping out bugs as fast as they can. Maybe you ran into one (or several). If you hit the “Create Community” link at the top, you can build one.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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The official app sucks and so does the mobile site.
https://imgur.com/a/SqpkQUO
I got a Reddit notification for this post while browsing this post. Time to turn off notifications!
Speaking of notifications, that menu used to be just for comment responses. Nowadays Reddit is using it to push me some “popular” posts I couldn’t care less about.
Same here. I had every notifications toggle switched off but direct messages and I still kept getting “recommended” posts. It’s basically malware at that point lol.
With the 3rd party apps I didn’t get exposed to any of this garbage, but now that I have to use the browser, I can’t avoid the tsunami of anti-user features. Quitting Reddit has never been easier.
Yep, I’m one of them. RIP Apollo.
Me too, after ten plus years. Nice to be here (:
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Judging from the slowdowns and hiccups around here, yeah, I’d say that was “some”. And we’re not done yet either. Plenty of people in the world party on friday and saturday. Plenty of people in the US are camping or something on an extended weekend.
Everyone checks it eventually as the week rolls on though. Kinda fortunate for us, really. Spreads the influx out.
As soon as Apollo stopped working, i deleted it and moved Memmy to Apollo’s spot. I will miss it and enjoyed the developers work on it but I’m done with Reddit unless my troubleshooting work points me there.
Normally I would get my news from Reddit but I have Apple News and that works fine for now while Lemmy ramps up.
Yep, here I am! I refuse to use any of Reddit official shit.
I’m a part of that group. I see 24 people wish I’d kick rocks haha, I get it.
Look, I’m sure most of the refugees agree with me. If we don’t fit in we’ll leave.
So far I’m digging Lemmy. I wish it was more active, but if it’s gonna grow it will.
It broke my heart to leave Reddit after 15-16 years, but it’s not that same place any more any way.
So, hello fellow Apollo refugees.
I knew it was getting bad nearly a year ago when they permanently banned my 12-year-old account for “threatening violence.” When I warned someone else that their rhetoric could be understood as such.
They and their friends went on a mass reporting spree and it took a month to get the ban overturned.
I ran a crack on Apollo, so I’m still using it for now, but I will never use Reddit in a way that gives them ad revenue.
I’m a part of that group. I see 24 people wish I’d kick rocks haha, I get it.
Look, I’m sure most of the refugees agree with me. If we don’t fit in we’ll leave.
So far I’m digging Lemmy. I wish it was more active, but if it’s gonna grow it will.
It broke my heart to leave Reddit after 15-16 years, but it’s not that same place any more any way.
So, hello fellow Apollo refugees.
I used reddit is fun but it’s the same story. Literally 15 years using that website daily.
Pro Tip, list view has made this feel very much like RIF.
Same deal, we both got fucked by Reddit.
What sucks is I’m sure you’d have paid to stay on RIF and I know I would have paid to stay on Apollo.
What a bummer that dickshit spez couldn’t see past his own nose.
Narwahl decided to try the subscription model. It should cost around 4-7 €/month. Unfortunately, I don’t think Reddit is that valuable to me, so I’ll just stick with Lemmy instead.
Pro Tip, list view has made this feel very much like RIF.
Same here, since 2017. I cannot recommend wefwef enough if you’re not already on it.
Not being able to browse on mobile killed it for me. Most of my browsing was on mobile via Apollo. I refuse to get the official app after this stunt so now I’m just not using Reddit.
Luckily wefwef is making the transition easy and familiar.
I used Now for Reddit for years. Was a great app. Somehow it’s still working. Must not be big enough for Reddit to kill.
Same with Joey
Yup, that’s me. I’m still a little surprised at how easy (thanks Spez) it actually was for being such a heavy consumer of Reddit. Doing Christian wrong like that, as well as the many popular 3rd party apps and their loyal users, just didn’t sit right with me. Spez chose the nuclear option, instead of actually working with and potentially helping to grow the site along with 3rd party devs, so this is the resulting fallout. He asked for it, so he got it.
I stopped using reddit the second Apollo stopped working, and I don’t think I’ve truly missed it once since then, I’m optimistic things will get far better with time as more people join lemmy.
Well I just stopped going to reddit. The only way O used reddit was apollo. I put lemmy icon on the aplllo place cos I kept unconsciously clicking it even though I knew it wont work.
I did the exact same. Apollo has been relegated to the graveyard on my phone. Gone but never forgotten. Wefwef is in the same location so I stop opening up discord by accident trying to click on Apollo.
Mod for a medium-sized city subreddit, here. I have absolutely no idea how I’m going to be able to keep modding for it, now that apps like Apollo and RIF are dead. It is functionally impossible to mod effectively with the official app (let alone the mobile site).
I’m not quite ready to just abandon the city community I spent so much time assisting - I mean, they’re my friends and neighbors, not just my subreddit subscribers. But if they move to Lenny en masse, I’ll join them, and say goodbye to Reddit permanently.
Why not get ahead of the curve and start moderating/start a community here already?
The positivity and enthusiasm on lemmy is so refreshing and each community is growing quickly. It’s like the days of Reddit when it was young.
There’s already a Lemmy community for the city, and I’m watching it closely to see if it takes off. So far, the signs are good, but the Reddit community is still a lot more active.
Maybe that will change as uses realize we simply can’t effectively moderate it anymore.
I would love to start a community for my city here but I honestly can’t figure out how the syntax works to start one. Every time I try to create one I get an error.
When did you try? The devs are stamping out bugs as fast as they can. Maybe you ran into one (or several). If you hit the “Create Community” link at the top, you can build one.