Sad news. I use Boost which I love. But won't be using Reddit anymore once 3rd party apps are cut off.
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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Same. There was a post on the boost subreddit indicating this place, so I expect there will be an influx (eg, me).
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beehaw admins prepare for another wave of users probably lol
Might be worth pointing people towards https://sh.itjust.works/ as they don't have too much users yet and the admin claims to have a lot of compute at their disposal.
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I've been recommending that people come here!
Lol I have just joined because of that announcement. Hopefully we get more users on here
welcome to your new home!
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The comments from FlyingLaserTurtle in particular were just AWFUL. Just straight up gaslighting.
Signed up to Lemmy today, but held off to see if the Reddit situation was going to get any better. Seems like it won't, so one big hearty fuck you to them.
I'll try and contribute as much as I can to this community.
Hoping Lemmy is able to re-create the feeling and community of early reddit. The reddit we're all refugees from felt vastly different ten years ago. All of the venture capital funding has ruined something that used to be a replacement for fragmented forum communities. Maybe a mass exodus to federated Lemmy instances can help re-create that early feeling.
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this is very sad, such a great app.
The initial breaking of this story is what drove me to explore some Reddit alternatives, but this is worse than I realized. It's a bummer to see the enshittification principle on full display.
If you're here and you have the technical skills, please consider running your own instance. Beehaw and lemmy.ml are getting slammed.
As an addition, this list can be interesting for potential new joiners looking for a smaller instance to register https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
Are there any hosting providers for Lemmy yet, like Masto.host and Spacebear offer for other federated software?
There's at least one mad scramble going on to create one. Probably several.
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Are there docs or docker containers out there already for this? Anyone with an unraid server could be offloaded to their own instances if it gets published in their community apps store (it just needs a config file to make it work on there IIRC).
There's actually an Ansible playbook for it, that will deploy Docker containers. It's pretty easy. Edit some configs, run the playbook and boom!
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Here from the dev himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/?sort=confidence
Shows already that the blackout protest will change nothing.
Still needs to happen though. Many subs are going dark for good as well, the more that do that the better.
Yeah, I'm on the Tropical Weather discord and they announced they're going dark, likely for good.
Gonna have to bring some popcorn for this.
Really sucks for the dev, as he does seems to be (or had been) really invested in what he was working on.
FYI, a lemmy iOS app, Mlem, is in active development, and we hope to be at 1.0 by July 1. It's heavily inspired by Apollo, but, obviously, with changes for lemmy.
Stay tuned and subscribe to c/mlemapp for updates!
Edit: I want to note that, since one of the biggest sticking points with 3rd-party apps has been both accessibility for the blind and deaf and mod tools, they're both on our minds as we design the interface. Getting both right will, of course, take time, but we want everyone to know that we fully intend to make our app usable for everyone.
there is also Jerboa on Android for folks who are on Boost, which is also going to inevitably disappear lol
While I appreciate the effort that can go into building a good app... Jerboa sucks. Going from something like RiF to Jerboa is like having some teeth pulled... and being aware of all the little gaps where your teeth used to be.
I hope this changes in the future, in the meantime, I'm planning to write my own, in the middle of everything else I'm doing.
Ye Jerboa could be better, but like with Mastodon I expect some improvements to arrive quickly and for new apps to appear as well in the near future. Such is open source development lol
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Been using it for a few days, and it's very nice. Not feature complete, obviously, but what's there is great.
Glad you like it-- there will probably be many changes as soon as it gets updated (we're still figuring out what works and what doesn't). But, and everyone should be aware of this: v1.0's goal is "be functional and stable". Features will get added as we go (hopefully quickly). Apps like Apollo, RIF, etc, are mature, having been developed over years of work and user feedback. And while we can stand on the shoulders of giants like Christian Selig with regard to our direction and goals, we're just getting started.
That said, we're here to serve the community as we are also part of it, so we are doing all we can to build a great app!
Good luck on that, and thank you for your work (saying this as an Android user, but every platform deserves a nice Lemmy client!)
I have the Mlem app but I'm have problems logging in, during login it says I I'm logged into beehaw.org but then says can't connect to beehaw.org. Am I doing something wrong?
it may have to do with the popular lemmy instances being slammed right now. Until very recently, they weren't handling a lot of heavy traffic-- after Christian Selig's initial announcement about the Reddit API changes,, there was a massive spike in traffic from Reddexiters, and, now, again within the last hour since his latest post. Instance admins are expanding their capacity, but can only do so much, being independent volunteers running servers on their own.
Give it time. the servers are a bit bogged down right now.
I just tried it again and it's now working. Can't wait to test it out!
Good to hear. I'm kinda hoping the Apollo source will become public once it closes. Anything that gets us close to that kind of experience would be great.
I'm the UX designer on the app, so the idea is to get close in terms of usability and style while making the app "our own". So, the app will, ideally, feel a lot like Apollo, but without outright copying it.
We want to take the best of Apollo (minus some things we don't like about it), and make something that's inclusive of how lemmy works and operates.
Can we expect these improvements to come to Jerboa as well?
I'm not involved in that project, but it's an open community project. I'm sure you can go to them and voice your wishes.
Thanks for the already great work. It’s a bit barebones right now but easy to use. Excited to see what will be coming to the app!
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So it begins...
I mean. That announcement might’ve convinced me to delete my account over there and dive in completely to Beehaw.
It might’ve done that 😉
i also might have used a github app to delete all of my posts and comments across all of my accounts. i might have done that before reading the post. however, after reading the Apollo author's post, there's no way i might go back to reddit. that is some manipulative shady af bs.
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