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[-] EthanolParty 18 points 1 year ago
[-] GlitterBandRebel@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Used rif for years, I can't believe it's just gone.

[-] Roberto@toast.ooo 2 points 1 year ago
[-] espais@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Error: 429.

sniffle

goodbye old friend

[-] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Guster@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago
[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] beppi@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm posting often in foodporn and my little communities.

[-] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

I need to stop my Lurking habits and contribute. We need to all do our part to provide content

[-] plum@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] dom@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It'll come. Early days of reddit I remember being annoyed at all digg posts.

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[-] kiddblur@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Man what a bummer. Just deleted my 13 year old account.

[-] fernandorincon@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

I'm here because baconreader died. Hi everyone!

[-] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Got the message on BR about an hour ago.

[-] fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I had been a Baconreader Premium user for 10 years, kinda sad to see it go.

[-] Johnnyari@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Same, definitely a bummer. The official reddit app is so awful. Lemmy it is...

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 4 points 1 year ago

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. ;) )

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] bzbb@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TGQP@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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

20 million a year? That’s wild, shame to see apps start to fall.

[-] MikeHfuhruhurr@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] DarkDarkHouse 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit didn’t even just say no, but framed the $10m comment as Christian threatening Reddit 🔪

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Slide for Lemmy already has an alpha version

[-] leosin@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I noticed ReddPlanet was down today. Just checked it out of curiosity. Haven’t been on Reddit in a few weeks.

[-] nogreens@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been a redditor since 2010, RiF user from about 2015 on, then Apollo user since 2020. There’s a few work related subs I’ll still visit occasionally on a web browser (using old.reddit of course) but other than that I’m officially done.

[-] DrummyB@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I deleted my Reddit account.

Not going back.

But it’s sad…

[-] CaptainFlaherty@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck Reddit. Immediately deleted my account and came here

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

IDGAF all lemmy all day

[-] alliswell33 1 points 1 year ago

Rip Sync 🫡

[-] Jode@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

My Relay app still seems to be working

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] hayander@lemmyngton.au 1 points 1 year ago

Sad moment in time

[-] closure1170@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sync is dead. Long live sync.

[-] SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm here from using Joey for Reddit. I'm surprised it seems like it wasn't as popular as the other third party apps. It was great for me

[-] lolreconlol@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow and we get more content..

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Rip sync. You were the best.

Looking forward to the Lemmy version

[-] joelthelion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if this will have any effect on Reddit's metrics? The blackout had almost no effect, and certainly no lasting effect. But this might.

Not that I care, though. Lemmy is active enough nowadays, and I'm pretty sure it's going to continue growing now.

Reddit's metrics are ad sales. And I think the impact here is going to be slower, and take longer.

Twitter's fall has been faster because existing competitors like Facebook and Instagram can take some of their users, Mastadon takes another chunk, and Substack launched their Twitter clone Notes already. Not to mention Bluesky's expanding public beta. If you liked Twitter and want that experience somewhere else, you've got good options.

Reddit has no real competitor. There's stuff like Hacker News, but their community is small and extremely toxic. Nothing else comes close. Until there's a true Reddit competitor, their demise will be slow and could be easily turned around.

You and I are of course on Lemmy. But lets be real, Lemmy isn't a competitor to reddit. As I write this comment there are 3 users online in this community. And given how there's already a huge amount of in-fighting and defederating amoung different Lemmy instances, this will never really take off.

Regular people don't want to sign up for a service and only to have it suddenly become much less useful overnight because they failed some purity test they didn't even know they were taking.

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