Done with Reddit. Lemmy is the way
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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After BaconReader shut down, my reddit usage plummeted to near 0. Only used it the last few days to Google interview questions from my desktop.
I've used baconreader for well over a decade and stopped using the website almost entirely after the redesign (yes I do use old.reddit whenever I access the website. Probably just a coincidence/cell phone screens and batteries for big enough and that time). I just downloaded jerboa and it feels like a BR clone, I'm guessing they are built using the same libraries/frameworks.
Good for them, and I am one of them :3
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I couldn’t get use to Narwal and the official app wasn’t it. The ads weren’t as bad as the subreddits it kept recommending. It was too cluttered. Also I wasn’t aware how many things were Apollo only. Gif scrubbing seems like such a common sense thing.
Dumb question. I've been off reddit and here for about a month. Today 7-2 I opened my boost app and infinity app and noticed new posts. I thought all the api apps were shutting down 6-30?
Infinity's dev said the app would still be usable for sometimes until a new update pass it into a subscription plan.
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That’s what I dig. Deleted my reddit account and now am either on here onSquabbles. Fuck reddit
The official app sucks and so does the mobile site.
Been on reddit for nearly 8 years (baconreader only), tragic really but it's been pushed into a direction I don't want to be involved with. Did the same with Facebook and haven't been back.
It'll go the same way other platforms have done before. Acting like they are irreplaceable when they are anything but.
Looking forward to being here and contributing to a growing community, get a good felling about here!
Not long made the switch and so far I'm liking it. Subscribing to remote communities is more complicated than I think it needs to be but, meh, you only do it once. Fingers crossed it keeps growing, Reddit was fun for a good while but it's been heading downhill fast recently.
I have, for now at least. Reddit is a hard habbit to break, and maybe lemmy is just feeding that same habbit but it's an interesting time.
In a way, I feel more free now - had an 11 year old reddit account and used Alien blue, then Apollo. I got so stagnant in consuming media that I ended up not contributing since everything I would’ve said had already been posted. But seeing the smaller growing communities across Lemmy makes me excited to actually contribute
I’m certainly walking away for the most part, hopefully lemmy can become my daily scroller. That said though, I’ll definitely get on reddit again at some point. Its just too useful of a resource to never touch again. If I need some question answered and only reddit has it, I’m not gonna pass on it just to make a point that primarily hurts me. Other than that though, my primary reddit usage died with Apollo