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How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?

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[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

There's no way this poll is accurate. Just looking at the Play Store the official app has 100M+ downloads. The bext closest, rif, has 5M+. I think people underestimate how many casual users go straight to the official app and don't care about any of this is.

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[-] BuddhaBeettle@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Didn't even know what a 3rd party app was until the protests (never used reddit on my phone to limit the amount of time spent there, and was never very tech savvy).
Left because of other reasons, like a couple mods of communities I love packing up and leaving and the sheer principle of it all.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Did you use reddit with reddit enhancement suite on desktop? I ask because I found reddit was such a terrible experience without being able to block off a bunch of stuff beyond what reddit offers you in their settings.

Felt like the longer people used reddit the more they ended up seeking out stuff like third party apps or extensions like RES as the feed started changing over the years of what got promoted.

I would have used reddit so much less without those or started avoiding it even if there hadn't been any api controversy.

[-] Mak@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago
[-] ViridianNott@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I used Apollo since it’s inception, and Alien Blue before that. Now I’ve deleted all Reddit apps and exclusively use kbin, for the last week or so.

[-] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I was using rif for years, I don't see myself ever downloading the reddit app partly because it sucks but now I have a bad taste in my mouth after all this. If they had of just improved their own app and left the third party ones alone I probably would have used it.

[-] narc0tic_bird@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I used Apollo. Now I'm only using it to check whether Christian Selig commented on anything, but nothing more than that.

I plan to nuke my last remaining Reddit account on June 30th.

[-] Whimseymimple@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've used Joey for years. (I've never used the official app.)

I'm not using anything right now and have deleted one of my accounts. I'll be deleting the other one in the next week.

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[-] CandidCamel@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Apollo all the way, sad to see it go

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[-] PolySeaOfTrees@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I started with RIf for ten first few years and then switched over to Sync. I loved the customization that Sync provides

[-] ironsoap@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

RIF user of many years. Pissed at Reddit. Although I see the financial motive for the API, the scumbag disingenuous moves have me believing it has jumped the social media shark and I had to move on.

Loved RIF, will miss the niches of Reddit, and this APIcalypse has opened my eyes to the deeper values of Reddit, but change is inevitable though.

[-] spunker88@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I used RIF for over a decade, it did everything I wanted so I never sought out an alternative.

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[-] sphere_au@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

RedReader, although not so much since Spez started his API stupidity. Personal preference, I like the basic, clean interface, which is also valued for accessibility. Jerboa's interface actually looks quite similar.

[-] xeedufk@terefere.eu 5 points 1 year ago

Still have Apollo installed to use it until the last day. Been using less and less thou in recent 1-2 weeks.

[-] JohnnyMentero@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I use 3: RedReader, Stealth & Relay

[-] Sim@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

RIF was Reddit for me.

[-] LewsTherinTelescope@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago
[-] funchords@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I was a RedditIsFun/RiF user when I was mobile but mostly I was a keyboard user on a laptop/desktop.

I was losing interest in Reddit over recent years due to the mobile user influx (terse posters, lots of memes and TXT-speak) but thanks to the last few weeks, I have lost nearly all of my interest in Reddit.

I'm really not a joiner or a protester -- I'm rather pragmatic about all of this stuff. But the fact is that Reddit Inc. has by its actions alienated the users most responsible for making Reddit a thing that I enjoyed. It is already to late to recover from that.

Reddit Inc. could do a 180-degree turn today and it won't matter much. In the rough-and-tumble of all of Reddit Inc.'s self-inflicted nonsense, the users they lost (the heart of Reddits culture and spirt) have discovered life beyond Reddit. It looks doable. A month ago, that was fairly unthinkable. Come back? To what? The main reason for Reddit being compelling to me won't return, leaving behind a rather less-interesting Reddit community. I doubt it will attract me.

To me, this just shortened Reddit's long tail. Reddit was already dying a slow death, but this nonsense has made it faster. My current usage is now a small fraction of what it used to me (I have 100 MB of comments and posts submitted over the past 15 years). My guess is that there will be little left of interest in much shorter time span.

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I did. Now I don’t use Reddit at all. Apollo.

[-] ozoned@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Did. Libreddit. Now Lemmy only. #FediFTW

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[-] konki@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I used Infinity until I deleted my Reddit account in connection with the protests. Now I don't use Reddit at all.

[-] StupidDunmer@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Same here. Infinity was my go-to.

[-] flyinghorse@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Used Apollo before, now I don't use it.

[-] _s10e@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

The only open question is, whether at least one of the popular apps will transition Lemmy. This should doable since the concept is so similar.

The world needs good Fediverse apps. If they include mastodon, we can say good bye to Musk's twitter as well.

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[-] obosob@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I recently bought RIF golden platinum just to give back to the dev, knowing that very soon the app will stop working. I'm hoping the dev could reuse his code and swap out the backend to make a lemmy client of the same caliber. It really is a good app.

[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

If "currently" means before the debacle (because I don't use Reddit currently): no, I'm primarily a desktop user, I used old Reddit and RES and I don't really have much personal attachment to 3rd party apps (that doesn't mean I won't stand with those who do).

I think that the API issue is more of a symptom of something much more deeply wrong with Reddit, if it wasn't the API it would have been some other breaking point.

[-] brad@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

RiF for at least 10 years.

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[-] Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I use the Apollo app and wait until the ship sinks…

[-] Frederic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I am/was using Sync Pro for 9+ years

[-] Lupolo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

RIF for as long as I remember. No more. Sad to see it go. Looking forward to watching this new fediverse community grow.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

Depends on how "currently" is defined. If it means right now, then no. However, if it means until all this then yes. I used to use redreader before i nuked my accounts and content in protest and came to lemmy full time

I've been using Slide basically since I started using Reddit.

It was the only client that fits all my requirement (it being FOSS and in F-droid being the most important one), while having a non-cluttered UI and a good dark theme.

It has basically been a dead project for 2 years but I never had any reason to move away from it.

Well, now that's I'm quitting Reddit, it's a good way to move away from it.

[-] monkeysuncle@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I've used RedReader for many years. When the api changes were announced I was certain I would never use reddit before, as I usually browse it on the phone. I still want to migrate away from reddit fully, but since RedReader has an api exception it's going to be more difficult to break my addiction.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

That poll isn't going to get good results because a lot of 3PA users have already left reddit

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[-] Hellebert@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me for about 10 more days or so apparently.

Then it'll just be Jerboa on my phone because I refuse to reinstall that piece of crap official Reddit app entirely. If a Google search takes me to Reddit for an answer I'll just use my browser until they eventually kill that too probably.

[-] eightys3v3n@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago
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[-] LegacyFlex@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I've exclusively used Relay for years until earlier this week. I've popped in a few times to see how things were going. According to my screen time usage app I've used Relay for under 10 minutes this week. Prior to that I was spending anywhere hour plus daily.

[-] Boterham@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I used Relay for years until I quit reddit a week ago.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

reddit is not fun anymore

[-] gk99@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I used to use Boost, I stopped when they banned the community showing how to switch to kbin.

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[-] hipsterscum@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I preferred the /.compact version of Reddit. They disabled it a few months back and all the alternatives suck.

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