• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    159·
    9 days ago

    It really broke my heart. I loved Reddit, I was on it on RiF one my phone when I didn’t use my computer. It was great for finding all sorts of new stuff and it was genuinely fun. I’d had a few accounts for like a decade or something, but when they killed the alternate programs I just left and never looked back.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
      79·
      9 days ago

      I miss RIF, but it’s for the better. Lemmy moves too slow for me to doomscroll it forever, so I’ve started putting my phone down more.

      I’ve started reading books again, even in public, when I’m waiting for someone or something. My mind is slowing down and getting more peaceful.

    • BakerBagel@midwest.social
      36·
      9 days ago

      Yeah, i didn’t realize how much i relied in Reddit to keep me informed on sports. I barely know what’s going in with my favorite teams, let alone the leagues anymore. But i couldn’t use anything other than RiF to browse Reddit, so i was done as soon as they axed the third party apps.

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40·
      9 days ago

      The writing was on the wall when reddit restricted buying awards in anything but the official app. For some reason, I even have a vivid recollection of where I was in the world when that went down.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      15·
      9 days ago

      I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          9 days ago

          Interesting. Just looked at Mlem for a minute and for some reason the Voyager UI agrees with me more.

          The funny thing is Mlem offers higher contrast between different UI elements yet it is easier for me to differentiate between those elements in the lower contrast way that Voyager presents them.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      Jerboa is similar enough in my head. Though, if I could time travel and get the 2023 experience then I might see that I’m misremembering.

      I was hoping RiF’s dev would make an app for Lemmy. They did make one for Tildes though called three cheers for Tildes. I believe their username is talklittle.

      • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        8 days ago

        Jerboa was real bad back then. Like, bad enough that I shelled out cash money to purchase Sync for Lemmy, which was another different old reddit front-end that now pivoted to Lemmy.

        Overall though I’m now actually a big fan of Sync. It’s a good app. Does all that it needs to and not much more.

    • dalekcaan@lemm.ee
      51·
      9 days ago

      I’m lucky, Boost was my app of choice. Now I just use it for Lemmy instead.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        4·
        9 days ago

        Which is how I learned about Lemmy. I opened Boost one day and was like… Wait, something’s off. : )

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    9 days ago

    For a lot of the OGs on Reddit it got worse after the whole AMA Victoria thing. That was really when Reddit went downhill. Before that Reddit was amazing with AMAs that kept you refreshing constantly to be live in the chat, and posts that were funny and discussion that felt a bit more meaningful.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      20·
      9 days ago

      We can look at a million things over the years and say this is when it went wrong. It’s all hindsight 20/20. The reality is that we’re here now, and, at least for me, I enjoy it here. 💜

      • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        9 days ago

        I’m pulling all of this from memory, so YMMV… Victoria was a paid person from Reddit who worked on the AMA subreddit only. Her job was to basically go around and get celebrities and other interesting people to do AMAs and then would help schedule them and coordinate the whole thing. In some cases even helping to type out answers. If I’m recalling correctly Reddit just got too corporate and decided to terminate her out of the blue. The community fought back, but nothing big ever changed or happened. After she went away AMA basically turned into a shitshow of no one actually doing anything. She was legitimately a powerful tool at Reddit but they just got rid of her.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    653·
    9 days ago

    hi every1 ive got new logo!!! *puts banana peel on head* my name is steve but u can call me t3h Sp3zZi of sn00!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!! thats why i want u to come here, 2 meet random ppl like me _… im 40½ years old (im not immature 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 rd elon musk x posts w/ a pic of my ex-wifie (im over it tho deal w/it) its our favorite thing!!! bcuz shes SOOOO random!!! hes random 2 of course but i want 2 meet more random ppl =) like they say the more the merrier!!! lol…neways i hope 2 find alot of rubes here so give me lots of monies!!!
    SNOOOOOOO!!!~ <— me bein random again _ hehe…toodles!!!

    love and waffles,

    *~t3h Sp3zZi of sn00~*

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        6·
        9 days ago

        The original meme has the person’s name as “katy”, and Boxxy’s real name is Catie, so whoever wrote the original might well have been parodying her.

        Edit: After a bit more research, there’s the tiniest sliver of a chance it might have been based on her pre-Boxxy online activity, because it pre-dates her use of the name, but it’s probably nothing to do with her.

          • palordrolap@fedia.io
            5·
            8 days ago

            So I checked a bit more and pre-Boxxy Catie and the copypasta both appeared online in 2006, so it’s probably not a parody of her specifically, just girls like the Boxxy character Catie created. Funny coincidence about the name though.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    57·
    9 days ago

    For me it’s not the app ecosystem. Reddit used to feel like it was a platform run by its community now its very company run and controlled.

    • humble peat digger@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      9 days ago

      Reddit made it unusable on mobile again.

      I use Firefox + unlock, but naturally it’s just slower and less convenient than rif.

      I use reddit a lot less now. Practically don’t use it on mobile as I noticed.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
      8·
      9 days ago

      Represent. I do miss it sometimes, but it’s probably better that I don’t spend as much time online.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 days ago

      Relay for Reddit will always be my favorite. It had a nice tablet mode and the “swipe to do everything” interface was nice.

      I have yet to find a decent replacement for it. Voyager is alright but I swear that it was designed to maximize unintentional button presses. It’s so easy to accidentally go to the community or the user’s profile when I just wanted to click on the post. And I can’t even count the number of times I accidentally collapsed a comment when I was trying to edit or upvote it instead. This is why the swiping interface was so nice. Made it almost impossible to unintentionally do the wrong action.

      I miss Relay so much, but unfortunately the developer decided to play by Reddit’s rules and start charging people to use the app. So it’s never coming to Lemmy.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Oh God yes, I feel you on the Miss-clicks

        Oh let’s look at the comments, downvote, ohh shit I need to, collapse, fuuuuck, uncollapse, inadvertently scrolls up now that it expanded, Hunt down the exact right one, swipe to upvote, miss, back to zero, sigh, carefully swipe over to upvote, tap for comments, end up in user’s profile… It’s not really an app that you can surf until you’ve had your coffee.

      • ebolapie@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        Have you tried Thunder? I’ve been using it since I finally got around to moving over here (admittedly not very long) and I’ve found that Thunder gets a lot right. It’s open source, ad-free, cross-platform, and nice to use. It doesn’t have quite as much polish as Relay but the design language is similar enough that it doesn’t feel like a huge departure.

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 days ago

          I tried it a year ago; felt very much like an unfinished project. Too many missing features. Has it improved a lot since then?

          • ebolapie@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 days ago

            I’ve only been on lemmy for like a week, so I have no point of comparison here. It doesn’t feel janky to me, but then I’m not a power user. It works well for what I like to do, which is view posts and comment. Images display well, I haven’t noticed any problems with video. I haven’t tried embedding images in comments yet, let’s try it with a photograph of the richest man in Indiana:

            the richest man in Indiana.

            Give Thunder a second shot, or don’t. I’m not your boss, I’m just some drunk guy on the Internet.

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 days ago

      I still have it on my phone n open it’s corpse all the time out of habit when looking for sync. I should uninstall it.

      • Baggie@lemmy.zip
        4·
        8 days ago

        I have the client for animelab which hasn’t existed since they got absorbed into crunchyroll. Maybe I’m just holding a grudge but I think there’s value in remembering what they took from you.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    36·
    9 days ago

    I pay the yearly subscription for Sync Pro, and I consider it a donation more than anything. I’ve gotten so many years out of that app, and the developer choosing to repurpose it to Lemmy made my transition here almost seamless from reddit.

    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      9 days ago

      Wait, Sync for Lemmy is a subscription and not a one time purchase? Boost’s dev did a similar transition but only standard one time purchase there.

      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
        7·
        9 days ago

        There’s a one time purchase to remove ads and a subscription for features like machine translation or importing/exporting your communities. It’s $17 yearly or $100 lifetime

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 days ago

      I’m the same, and had paid for it during the Reddit days of the app. I’m hesitant to pay a subscription this time around, though, since the creator has always left for months and come back with a flurry of updates - which is entirely up to them, but a turn-off for something I’ll pay for periodically.

      Sync is still my daily driver, and IMO few Lemmy clients come close.

    • Kurroth@lemmy.world
      210·
      9 days ago

      Hadn’t seen the variation of pasta before. Feels like the perfect X years later of the original

  • nicomachus@programming.devEnglish
    341·
    9 days ago

    These days if I wanna check reddit on my phone I just navigate to old.reddit on my phone’s browser.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    27·
    8 days ago

    I haven’t looked at the front page of Reddit since the exodus. I have used it to deshittify Google search results but that’s it. I imagine it’s absolute garbage by now.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      16·
      8 days ago

      Same. Unfortunately I still need to visit smaller subreddits to get answers on niche topics, but that’s my only use for it now. In and out; 10 minute adventure. Not spending all day on the front page like I used to. Any more time than that on the website, and I’ll just end up getting into an argument with some Gen Alpha idiot who feels the need to butt in and say something ignorant. 10-15 years ago you’d only see that kind of behavior during summer break. Now /r/SummerReddit is all of reddit.

      I hope that one day I can finally abandon that shithole for good.

      • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 days ago

        I went and looked last night out of curiosity, and found absolutely vile racism on r/Canada talking about immigration. It was just shy of "deport them all’ in the comments.

      • Hackworth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        8 days ago

        Even the smaller subreddits on niche topics seem to be dying. I suppose the lost good will (and loss of third party mod tools, or course) caused many of the superusers to leave.

        • vividspecter@lemm.ee
          5·
          8 days ago

          A number of the technical subreddits made their own forums on discourse, and the subreddits are either closed or in a zombie state.

    • LemUrun@pawb.social
      2·
      8 days ago

      I rarely touched that shithole called the front page. Mainly in Redditplanet for Windows Mobile, since you can’t login there.

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    26·
    9 days ago

    My gosh that Reddit app icon is horrible. It looks like a terrible meme NFT or something. …Which was probably the aesthetic they were going for, to be clear.