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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.
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.
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.
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.
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”…
RIF no longer showing content for me :( It’s over. 6 years of being my most used app on my phone
Same. It just says 429 for me. I can’t believe it’s really gone!
Same seeing 429 😢
Rest In Pieces reddit
429 never forget
Same here. I tried a few times past midnight but there it went. End of an era - gonna be one hell of a difficult habit to go cold turkey on. Hopefully Lemmy can fill the void…
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I never would have guessed when I first installed RIF that some years later I would end up feeling sad as I uninstalled it.
Same here, went dark as I was scrolling. Guess that’s it for me on Reddit in any kind of meaningful way.
I just fired up Apollo for the first time in two weeks to see if things loaded, and it’s crashing instantly.
Same, it’s been such a big part of my life. Thought I would have more time with it today :'(
Unsure if this is off-topic for this thread so feel free to delete if that’s the case.
/r/firefox now looks like this.
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 🙃
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
If admins want to force certain subs to stay on certain topics, they can moderate them by their own f#ckin’ selves.
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
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.
Unfortunately teddit and libreddit rely on the API so many instances may break tomorrow
I think you’re probably correct.
I for one love these new changes to the Firefox Reddit 🦊
Hahahahahaha hahahahahaha
/Wipes tear
I’ve already been removed as a mod. Oh no! Anyway…
More time to scroll through Lemmy now.
Welp, Sync Pro just went dark for me. Guess I’m done with Reddit.
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.
My friend mentioned Reddit is Fun is shut down now. Sad day 😔
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.
If they really do shut off API access I’ll go into partial link aggregator withdrawal. My Lemmy instance still isn’t upgraded to the latest versions which are compatible with apps, so I don’t browse on my phone.
Try using the Progressive Web App (PWA) instead. I’m on iOS and haven’t found a good app for Lemmy yet but the PWA has helped me get used to Lemmy on my phone in place of Reddit. You just open the site in your phone’s native browser (Safari on iOS, probably Chrome on Android?) and choose “Save to Home Screen”. Now it looks like any other app and behaves like it too, even though it’s secretly just the web page.
Give wefwef a try. It’s a third party PWA app already looking very similar to Apollo.
hi, do you think you could walk me through how to download something like this or point me in the direction of a guide or something that could? i’ve been using lemmy just on browser but would be interested in something like this, i’ve just never installed anything like it before and don’t quite know what to do :) thanks!
Open https://wefwef.app in your mobile browser, open the share slid out menu or however that menu is called and click on “add to home screen”. That’s it.
Second the PWA, it’s pretty decent.
I think on Android you can do it with any browser that supports it (I do believe Firefox has the support too). On iOS Safari is the only browser anyway, the others are cosmetic and functional improvements, but have to use Webkit for the actual website displaying stuff
Just tossing this out there, I’m commenting from memmy (iOS) and it’s great. Still beta and incomplete but really nice UI and themes. New features being added literally daily. Feels much more native and usable than the web interface.
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 LEMMYWhere does one find wefwef? A quick search didn’t give me anything obvious, and it’s not on the app store
Ah, right — try wefwef.app, and be sure to install to your Home Screen (check the settings tab, or if on iOS, tap the “share” icon in safari and select that option)
Its not a native app, basically an alternative web view, that you can add to your homescreen
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.
Why bother honestly
There are three possibilities.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
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.
I’m pretty sure reddit said explicitly that everything marked NSFW will not be filtered out.
They also said they won’t force subs ro reopen
Yeah, that’s fair. And they also said earlier this year that they won’t change anything about the API in at least a few years.
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.
Now we just need someone to find the api key used by the official app …
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.
And now RiF is just memories. I hope Beehaw and the Fediverse grow and become something great
I’ve been using bacon reader for 9 years. I keep wanting to feel sad that it’s my last day on Reddit* but I really don’t. *I’ll probably check in sometimes at home as long as I can use old Reddit. But honestly my only time to read it has been during the day during downtime at work. I get home and have much better things to do then sit on Reddit.
Just a test.
Do you double tap to do a line break?
We’ll see if this worked
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.
This is exactly why kbin just isn’t a practical option yet. Should just stick to Lemmy at least for now.
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.
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.
There are problems that goes both ways, the number of subscribers, for example.
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
RIP Sync for reddit 😢 I hope Sync for Lemmy will be even better!!
