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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.
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
I wanna believe that but on the other hand people won’t stop posting about Twitter either so I get a feeling we’ll keep seeing Reddit news until people are ACTUALLY over it
Well when you put it like that it makes me a bit worried too…
It’ll come. Early days of reddit I remember being annoyed at all digg posts.
I’m posting often in foodporn and my little communities.
I need to stop my Lurking habits and contribute. We need to all do our part to provide content
I created a bunch of communities. I’m trying to post on them but I need help. We need more contributors.
It’s a lot better once you start subbing to groups instead of just browsing the front page.
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!
the sorting algorithm is not that great, but thats okay with me. I find it a lot better to be more intentional about what content I get, rather than let Reddit decide for me what to see.
So what I do is two things:
- sort posts by “new”. This way I see a lot of variety of posts, and it is not biased by what other people like. Unfortunately it does remain biased towards more popular communities.
- Go directly to certain communities and view posts there. I can sort by both “new” and “hot” or whatever the other ones are.
I find this better than the default. It is not the same as reddit, but it is fine with me until they develop a better algorithm. But I would not want a doomer scroll algorithm either like Reddit.
Agree, but it’ll die down. The whole reason that 90% of the people are here is because of reddit so it’ll stay news for a bit.
The “hot” front page STILL has posts from days ago.
I give it 3 days before people cave and go back. People will always find a way to get their dopamine fix. If lemmy doesn’t have what they want, suffering through the shitty Reddit app will be a cakewalk compared to giving up the habit altogether
while Lemmy is modeled after Reddit in a lot of ways, the fediverse in general has a big opposition to unhealthy social media habits. dooomer scroll addictive algorithms that try to keep you hooked on the app as long as possible for max ad revenue will likely never happen.
Some people will not like that, and it is fine. I’d prefer if they go rather than influence the platform in negative ways.
You’re right but Lemmy is still new for a lot of people.
rip rif
Best app
Error: 429.
sniffle
goodbye old friend
Rip Apollo
deleted by creator
Used rif for years, I can’t believe it’s just gone.
I’m here because baconreader died. Hi everyone!
Welcome!
Same. Hello fellow Baconreader user!
Hi :)
Man what a bummer. Just deleted my 13 year old account.
Got the message on BR about an hour ago.
I had been a Baconreader Premium user for 10 years, kinda sad to see it go.
Same, definitely a bummer. The official reddit app is so awful. Lemmy it is…
Rip sync. You were the best.
Looking forward to the Lemmy version
Can’t wait for it either! hopefully just a few short weeks. In the meantime, Lift and Connect have been performing great.
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. ;) )
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.
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.
Edit: Ah, and I just realized I might have misunderstood you, not the other way around. Sorry about that.
From what i heard recently, infinity is going to be subscribtion based from now on… so probably devs didnt stop app from working but are yet to implement subsciption
Interesting. I’m not sure how that works with an Open Source app. Will the API key be in the source repo? Will there be a server that Infinity routes through that adds the API key to the request? Will future versions of Infinity be proprietary? I’ll probably look into it at some point.
Infinity probably managed to cut a deal with Reddit like the Narwhal dev did. Meaning that while they’re working on their new subscription-only price model, they still have access to the API for free.
To my knowledge, they’re the only two apps that will try to work with the new API policy.
iirc infinity will stop working on 7/1 as well. possibly switching to a subscription model with price tbd
RiF user here. RiP RiF
20 million a year? That’s wild, shame to see apps start to fall.
Right?! And then when being asked if they could maybe charge $10 million (or give people 6 months to figure things out), they just said no. I can’t remember another company that blatantly cut off all partner relationships like that.
I think the reasoning is that Reddit didn’t realize these *were *partner relationships. They thought these apps were just taking and not actually helping.
I can’t remember another company that blatantly cut off all partner relationships like that.
Twitter
lol. Good point
Reddit didn’t even just say no, but framed the $10m comment as Christian threatening Reddit 🔪
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.
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.
Slide for Lemmy already has an alpha version
No way, that’s awesome!
Making our own reddit, with blackjack and hookers
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.
Boost was my app, and I’m glad that it’s becoming a Lemmy app.
My Relay app still seems to be working
I used Relay pro for ages as well, I’m a bit disappointed that the app developer isn’t taking their app down but I don’t judge them for it. If they think they can keep the app working then more power to them but I would’ve loved to see a Lemmy / Kbin version of Relay. For now I’m mostly happy with Connect for Lemmy but it’s taking some getting used to.
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.
