goodbye Joey for reddit : reddit

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't say I'm surprised. Spez just wants to spin a narrative.

I really can't take any of his complaints seriously now that they sunsetted one of the few things people were actually willing to pay them for.

ETA: I know he's always been a liar, but the fact that he took the awards away just removed any shred of credibility he may have had left.

[-] buffalo@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

Can’t wait to watch a 1.5 hour “downfall of Reddit” YouTube drama Video 2-3 years from now.

[-] Udonezo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

why wait?

[-] min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 1 year ago

RemindMe! 2-3 years

[-] WeRememberTheFreeman@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunate and sad. I'm glad fediverse is a thing and getting traction now. It was hard for me to think how one can compete with the giants of the internet and it was evident that smaller organisations don't stand a chance but thousands of people and small orgs hosting manageable instances that talk to each other is an amazing idea. I hope the fediverse becomes the mainstream way of experiencing the internet.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was wondering how they were still up. Not surprised they were shut down unceremoniously.

[-] McBinary@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The same will happen with Relay for Reddit soon too. DBrady is still holding open the app, paying the costs for it, so that he can release a subscription model. I love Relay, but I (and I imagine others) won't pay a subscription for a stripped down version where majority of the $$$ goes to Reddit and not the developer... If he had an option to pay him directly I would consider it though.

[-] sanataseva@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm still using Relay because on its best day Kbin/lemmy still doesn't have the content, but, when it stops working completely, I'm done with reddit.

[-] Thitherwards@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Honestly, less content is better, in my case. 30 minutes and I'm done with all the memes and ready to go on with my life. It's nice to live without hours of pointless doom scrolling for a change.

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

This is the exact the same as me - only still peruse Reddit because Relay is still kicking on, although I am 80 / 20 Lemmy to Reddit these days so I won't miss anything when Relay is completely dead.

[-] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

It's a matter of absolute control, it's not about the money that could be earned with a reasonable deal (which would be the smart play), it's about displacing all third parties to annex control. Initially Spez tried to put a spin on it to make it look less hostile, but honestly it's one of the most abusive things I've seen from a corporation, one for the history books. Now he's doubling down by removing major Reddit features. It's insane. What's even more odd is Musk and Spez seem to be destructively operating in parallel. Honestly if you told me this would happen a year ago I would have thought impossible. Crazy times.

[-] keeb420@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

What I don't get is that if they were honest up front most of us would've accepted it. It's the being abusive part that got me to leave. All they had to do was put out a pr spin and use some fluffy language to thank the 3rd party devs but acknowledge reddit is changing amd they couldn't even do that.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They weren't making ad money off us anyway so they figured we didn't matter.

[+] donut4ever@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

Is /r/PICS still putting up a good fight?

[-] jeems@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Well, they made an offer to John Oliver to become a mod.

[-] atocci@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Why does Infinity still work?

[-] djpepperoni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think I saw on the sub that reddit was letting the app operate without fees until the new update. I thought reddit stopped doing that when I couldn't log on a few days ago but it seems that things are still going.

I honestly don't know what reddit's mo is

[-] letraset@feddit.dk 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

RIP Joey. It was a great app, and a great dev. I hope the dev goes on to build another banger.

[-] rasikww@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I hope the dev makes something similar for lemmy..

[-] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It really was such a great Reddit client. My brother swore by Apollo, but I was on android and couldn’t say enough good things about Joey. When I switch back to iOS, I got on Apollo and saw what he meant. But in my heart, I still think Joey was better. But they were both definitely cream of the crop

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Sign up to find out

[-] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Yup, that's mainly why I'm here. Joey made reddit tolerable, so without it I go elsewhere. Hell, I even fired up irssi today for the first time in at least a decade

[-] KarhennettuTurtana@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, me too. No Joey, no Reddit.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome! Enjoy your stay :)

[-] Elegast@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Damn, used that app for so many years. By far my favorite.

[-] Cyyy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

still works fine if you use a older version of the app and are a moderator of a subreddit. apparently reddit didn't killed the api key yet or the app somehow still works without api key.