How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?

  • funchords@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I was a RedditIsFun/RiF user when I was mobile but mostly I was a keyboard user on a laptop/desktop.

    I was losing interest in Reddit over recent years due to the mobile user influx (terse posters, lots of memes and TXT-speak) but thanks to the last few weeks, I have lost nearly all of my interest in Reddit.

    I’m really not a joiner or a protester – I’m rather pragmatic about all of this stuff. But the fact is that Reddit Inc. has by its actions alienated the users most responsible for making Reddit a thing that I enjoyed. It is already to late to recover from that.

    Reddit Inc. could do a 180-degree turn today and it won’t matter much. In the rough-and-tumble of all of Reddit Inc.'s self-inflicted nonsense, the users they lost (the heart of Reddits culture and spirt) have discovered life beyond Reddit. It looks doable. A month ago, that was fairly unthinkable. Come back? To what? The main reason for Reddit being compelling to me won’t return, leaving behind a rather less-interesting Reddit community. I doubt it will attract me.

    To me, this just shortened Reddit’s long tail. Reddit was already dying a slow death, but this nonsense has made it faster. My current usage is now a small fraction of what it used to me (I have 100 MB of comments and posts submitted over the past 15 years). My guess is that there will be little left of interest in much shorter time span.

  • obosob@feddit.uk
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    2 years ago

    I recently bought RIF golden platinum just to give back to the dev, knowing that very soon the app will stop working. I’m hoping the dev could reuse his code and swap out the backend to make a lemmy client of the same caliber. It really is a good app.

  • _s10e@feddit.de
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    2 years ago

    The only open question is, whether at least one of the popular apps will transition Lemmy. This should doable since the concept is so similar.

    The world needs good Fediverse apps. If they include mastodon, we can say good bye to Musk’s twitter as well.

  • bunkbed@feddit.uk
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    2 years ago

    Never was a heavy user. I was using infinity, uninstalled before api change was announced actually.

  • BobQuasit@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Yes, Infinity. Actually I used the official Reddit app until all of this hit the news. Then I deleted that app and switched to Infinity. When infinity goes, I’ll delete it and I’m done with Reddit except on an alt account on my desktop. And that will just be for correspondence.