Today’s the last day for most third-party Reddit apps before they shut down indefinitely. I’ve been on Apollo from its inception and alien blue before that. Countless F5s, comments, “war chests”, ups, and downs during that time.

These apps and r/Gunners are the reasons why I became a “Redditor” in the first place. I really hate what’s going on with the platform now, how greed is seemingly at the forefront of any decision. How the app is becoming less and less about the users and their contents but more and more about squeezing said users out of every quid (avatars, coins/gold, ads, etc).

I know it’s going to be hard to stop getting on Reddit since it’s become such an ingrained part of my daily routine (would literally just whip out my phone and refresh the sub every so often daily) but I’ve decided after today I’ll start to wean myself off it.

The plan going forward is to just check the sub on my PC/Laptop and at least try to use Lemmy as a mobile replacement. I know that’s going to be hard initially as the community here, whilst comfy and nice; is still only a tiny fraction of the sub hence an understandably lower level of activity comparatively. It’s silly season after all, aren’t we all anticipating the latest updates even if they’re just what we know but worded slightly differently, as infuriating as it may be?

I’m very happy to see that we’ve carved out a space for ourselves here, and how it isn’t just dead after like a week. Let’s try to make this place as active as we can! Post whatever you deem to be interest and we can all shit on/praise it in the comments together. On the sub I’ve always been a commenter but I’m trying to make an effort and post any tweets/updates from notable sources here to keep activity levels up. I’m very glad to see some familiar names becoming regulars already, which is nice! Makes this place feel more and more like a true r/Gunners alternative.

Anyway, guess I’m done here with my little ramble. It’s been a weird week… 🦀🦀🦀

Would y'all wanna do an FPL when the new season rolls around?

Took my 2011 Jetta in for service and I'm told it's $5k to fix it. I kinda figured the rear brakes needed replacing but there are so many issues with it and I'm kind of lost.

I'm probably going to end up selling the car and buying new, but I was hoping for another year or two out of it. Oh well.

Just have to make sure I don't impulse buy the first car put infront of me.

It's Emiliano Viviano!

Bought tickets to the West Ham match on Boxing Day. Which is also the same day we arrive in London, so that's going to be a lonnnngggg day.

@throbbingpens I wonder if the birdsite blocking people without accounts is going to drive people to reddit or lemmy for transfer updates: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

I don't soccer, but is that the guy who got an AR tattooed on his leg?

Is jerboa crashing for anyone? I updated two days ago, first it wasn't loading other communities and now it's just crashing.

Goddamnit america.

The Dems really need to pack the courts at this point tbh.

I just bought Returnal for PS5 and I’m excited to play it! I love roguelike games.