if you want to post links or discuss Reddit over the next while, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy, thanks! (a more formal body may be forthcoming, but that’ll come in the morning if so)

  • comicallycluttered@beehaw.orgEnglish
    19·
    2 年前

    Just got my push notification from Sync. “It’s been a hell of a ride.”

    It actually hurt my soul a little to hit that uninstall button. Maybe I’ll try the Lemmy version when LJ makes it public. Don’t know. Kind of liking the alternatives purely because it feels like a fresh start without the reddit baggage.

    • Imactuallyanandroid@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      Got the notification as well :(. Haven’t been on it since lemmy but it was still a sad feeling. I’ll definitely be trying out sync for lemmy when its released.

      • at_an_angle@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        2 年前

        Bought the full version like 10 years ago because, funnily enough I didn’t want ads when browsing Reddit.

        I’m loving the organized chaos over here better.

    • Pepper@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      I was up-to-date on everything and knew 3rd party apps were shutting down, but it still felt like it wasn’t going to happen. One of those ‘oh surely they won’t let it get that far’ moments, but nope. Poof. All gone.

    • lukini@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      I’m not uninstalling rif. It’s going to sit there until I get a new phone.

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      I’m struggling to do it too man ;_; I don’t want to let go… I want reddit to come to its senses. After all the shit we’ve been through in the past 4 years, this is like a swift kick right in the ribs while we were already curled up on the ground in agony.

      I don’t know how to accept this “reality”…

  • LittleBigDonDon@lemm.eeEnglish
    17·
    2 年前

    First post! I just want to drop a hint to anyone else coming from Apollo — I just installed wefwef.app and, despite the weird name, it is insanely close to an exact replica. I’m honestly surprised a PWA can work this well.

    Also,
    FUCK SPEZ
    RISE LEMMY

    • FiniteLooper@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 年前

      Where does one find wefwef? A quick search didn’t give me anything obvious, and it’s not on the app store

      • LittleBigDonDon@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        2 年前

        Ah, right — try wefwef.app, and be sure to install to your Home Screen to get the full benefits of the PWA capabilities (check the settings tab, or if on iOS, tap the “share” icon in safari and select that option).

        Updated my original comment with the link as well.

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      I’m using wefwef now, coming off of using Reddit Sync, and it’s delightfully intuitive. I’m super bummed about reddit imploding, but hey, at least we have a new place.

      It’s like how every time there’s a group chat, it spontaneously spawns a new, smaller group chat “without the annoying people”.

    • DaffyDuck@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      Yes, using this right now and it’s helping me feel like I’m still on Reddit. :)

      • LittleBigDonDon@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        That is much more likely to be a problem with your server, not the PWA, simply because it is just a client-side web app. Are you on one of the large servers? I’m hearing they’re struggling to service the influx of users.

        Although, I suppose it could be exacerbated by the app potentially requesting more from your server than the basic lemmy frontend does. Like, it may not paginate comments and instead request all upfront.

  • Cowbob45@beehaw.orgEnglish
    13·
    2 年前

    And now RiF is just memories. I hope Beehaw and the Fediverse grow and become something great

  • Nooch@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 年前

    RIF no longer showing content for me :( It’s over. 6 years of being my most used app on my phone

  • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    2 年前

    Relay appears to be attempting to reduce API calls and stay open.

    Edit: I just found this patch to use our own API key if Relay gets taken down.

      • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        2 年前

        There are three possibilities.

        1. The developer thinks maybe they can make this work. Maybe there’s a combination of a lower limit of API calls and an upper limit of what people are willing to pay for their app that will let them keep going.
        2. The developer’s lawyer recommended that to sue reddit for destroying their livelihood they would need to demonstrate that they had tries with the new system and it wasn’t feasible in order to make their case stronger
        3. The developer wants to take advantage of the third party landscape being just them now

        Personally I think the first one is the most likely. It seems naive and bound for failure. But its also the least conspiracy theory and doesn’t assume malice

        • a_statistician@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          The developer’s lawyer recommended that to sue reddit for destroying their livelihood they would need to demonstrate that they had tries with the new system and it wasn’t feasible in order to make their case stronger

          Not sure how you get a cause of action for someone else’s business decisions messing with your business, as a general rule. How would that work? I’m legitimately curious.

        • Bldck@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          Is Reddit as a business responsible for providing a livelihood for a third party developer? What would they be suing over? On what grounds?

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 年前

        I agree, I’m OK to let that website die. We really are ready for decentralization and we just need to deal with the growing pains. But it will happen eventually.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      2 年前

      Doesn’t matter, paid will due shortly after people realize there’s no NSFW content. Not just porn, everything flagged NSFW won’t show up at all. Everything from AMA to TV show discussions will be impacted.

    • nostalgicgamerz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 年前

      Spez has already said that doing this {when talking about Apollo} is “not allowed”, so likely this method will get blocked or your account will get banned. You’re here now so IMO it doesn’t matter

    • AnonymousLlama@kbin.social
      0·
      2 年前

      There’s also a patch for Sync for reddit, apparently you can use your own API key and app name. I’ll give it a look once sync stops working tomorrow.

        • delmain@beehaw.org
          2·
          2 年前

          Well the official app uses a new internal (graphql iirc) API, so that would be nice but it wouldn’t really work as easily as that.

    • mifuyne@beehaw.orgEnglish
      10·
      2 年前

      I can’t help but love when subreddits do this in response to the threat of removing mods if they stay private. I remember there were some that were posting “sexy” pics of John Oliver. iPhone was limited to posting “sexy” pics of Tim Cook. Working with what they have in order to continue their protests. I like it😁

      It has malicious compliance written all over it 🙃

      • KNova@links.dartboard.socialEnglish
        7·
        2 年前

        It forces Reddit’s hand even more IMO; if you start forcing a sub to stay on a certain topic by admin order (and not by mod’s / community “owner” choice), it really sets a weird tone for the community

        • Chahk@beehaw.orgEnglish
          10·
          2 年前

          If admins want to force certain subs to stay on certain topics, they can moderate them by their own f#ckin’ selves.

    • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      2 年前

      oh, the teddit thing looks neat, like a perfect backhand slap. good enough to just see and not interacting. I didn’t know how much history on reddit until I run the power delete suite script, it just keeps going. 9 years sure has a lot of stuff on it. XD

      • Spudger@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        0·
        2 年前

        Yep, Teddit works well for me because I don’t have a Reddit account. It’s quick and privacy respecting. I think I may have found it through the Privacy Redirect extension for Firefox.

  • ahriboy@kbin.social
    7·
    2 年前

    It was so very fun to use third-party apps for Reddit until the last day. Today will be the new dawn for kbin and Lemmy apps. Reddit before, now Threadiverse.

  • datawraith@kbin.social
    6·
    2 年前

    I didn’t really follow the recent “drama” (for lack of a better term), but I’m glad it came about because it created a lot of buzz on hackernews about reddit alternatives which got me to check out the Fediverse (kbin/lemmy), and a few other alternatives. I really like the look and feel of Discuit, but it’s inevitable for it to become essentially another digg v4/reddit 2.0 clone because apart from a nice UI and the creator/owner not being a dick, it’s still a centralised forum that will limit or censor discussion at the whims of the owner in the end. I don’t want that.

  • Timmy@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 年前

    Open-source app Slide also stopped working today. Goodbye reddit, hello Lemmy. I’m still getting used to the UI of Connect, but I’m glad there’s something to fill the void. May Beehaw grow into something great!

  • Dusty@l.dustybeer.comEnglish
    4·
    2 年前

    I just wanted to say thank you for this, hopefully it helps to clean up the clutter from this community.

  • Niello@kbin.social
    3·
    2 年前

    I get having megathreads, but currently kbin doesn’t care whether a post on Lemmy is pinned, so megathreads make it harder here to follow news and discussions on the topic.

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 年前

        I’m not even confident that kbin.social is federating properly.

        It might not be their fault, but things don’t seem to match up.

        • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgMEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

          There seem to be a lot of problems surfacing with federation in general. Some actions seem to be taking a very long time to federate - if they ever do.

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 年前

      this is unfortunate but we kind of have to prioritize our users first and a lot of people are annoyed about all the reddit posts that clearly don’t need to be their own thread