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Big shoutout to The Verge for their continued coverage of the reddit situation.
When I heard about Apollo shutting down I toyed with the idea of using the Reddit app. Then I saw how spez handled the whole thing and realized I’m never going back.
So here I am taking the lemmy plunge. Wefwef is a godsend!
I hate the official Reddit app but I probably would have sucked it up and used it if they had handled this professionally.
Reddit can die the death its admins clearly so desperately want for it.
We will carry on without it
I tried out the official app yesterday. Uninstalled after 10 minutes. scrolling was terrible. It felt really laggy even after some changes. If RIF isn't available, I'm never going back. 10years 6months. Bye reddit
I will miss RIF.
I have a lot of niche communities that I interacted with daily. My hobbies, my profession, and other interests. Over the last 12 years.
It was a place where I went for news, discussion, and knowledge.
I'm sad, actually sad 😞
I hope I can find what I'm looking for on Lemmy. Maybe I can start and foster community. I fear the fragmented nature of the fediverse may prevent healthy growth, and keep communities broken apart and small. I don't yet know enough to trust the stability and longevity, what if the host for an instance decides this isn't fun anymore? What if they die? Do all the communities that depend on it also perish, and fragment to other instances?
I'll never use Reddit's shitty app. I used RiF for over 11 years, and I'll be damned if I'll be forced to do it their way. I hope it burns.
Same, but with Apollo for me. The way it all went down sucked. I worry more and more about the future each day.
I just had my 8th cakeday last week. I was using Baconreader and now it's gone I feel an irrational loss. Ah well.
Long time Apollo user and I’ve just uninstalled it after many years… Started using WefWef now and it’s really close in the interface but it still doesn’t have the all power features. The 3rd party ecosystem of Lemmy is now really strong and it’s amazing to see apps getting updates daily.
I am properly sad about this whole ordeal. I suggested, defended, and praised Reddit to my friends and acquaintances, but that Reddit is dead today.
Funny enough, this is my first post on Lemmy
Welcome, friend. It's a new day and we shall build a new community!
Build it better too. Without any fuckhead like spez
Apollo will always be Reddit for me. Sad to see it go this way 😢
Same. Apollo was Reddit as far as I’m concerned. Too much valuable information on Reddit for me to stop using it entirely, but I won’t be on there regularly like I was with Apollo. The official Reddit app just isn’t as refined as Apollo was.
Wefwef is an incredible clone of Apollo. Give it a try
Been using Boost for reddit, my most used android app. So happy that there will be version for lemmy. Fuck reddit and long live lemmy.
The Verge has been on this story from the beginning. Every time something new happens.
Yeah I bet there were some Apollo/RIF power users on the staff
Boost user here, excited for the Lemmy version!
I feel the same way. Christian did a tremendous job on developing and updating Apollo all while keeping the user experience in mind. I’m sad to see it go but I’m looking forward to wasting many years scrolling through the Fediverse.
I am properly sad about this whole ordeal. I suggested, defended, and praised Reddit to my friends and acquaintances, but that Reddit is dead today.
Funny enough, this is my first post on Lemmy
Sad day. I was using Sync for years, even before Reddit had their own crappy app. At least Sync will be coming to Lemmy soon, so it's not all bad.
Will there be a RIF for the fediverse?
Unfortunately no, the developer is making an app for Tildes instead, which is an invite-only forum.
Personally I quite like Jerboa, although it's buggy if your instance isn't on 0.18 (yours isn't), and I also quite like https://wefwef.app, which you can install as a PWA.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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