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
    26·
    1 year ago

    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
      6·
      1 year ago

      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
        6·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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”…

    • Pepper@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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·
      1 year ago

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

  • LittleBigDonDon@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      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”.

    • FiniteLooper@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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
        8·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • DaffyDuck@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

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

      • LittleBigDonDon@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        They just pushed an update that might fix that for you. According to the release notes —

        • Fix API failure causing annoying redirect

        Maybe that was causing your issue…I dk

        Nevermind, it seems to be an issue connecting to lemmy.world. The 0.9.1 release notes address this.

      • LittleBigDonDon@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Nooch@beehaw.orgEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

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

  • Cowbob45@beehaw.orgEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

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

    • mifuyne@beehaw.orgEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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
        9·
        1 year ago

        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
          7·
          1 year ago

          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
      3·
      1 year ago

      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
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Briongloid@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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·
        1 year ago

        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·
          1 year ago

          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·
          1 year ago

          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
        2·
        1 year ago

        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
      7·
      1 year ago

      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·
      1 year ago

      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·
      1 year ago

      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·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • ahriboy@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • MissTyata@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I feel the same way now that I did when I quit World of Warcraft, and started playing Final Fantasy XIV. My favourite app is gone, destroyed by greed.

    I’m hoping Lemmy can do for me what Final Fantasy did.

  • datawraith@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • anji@lemmy.anji.nl
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Isildun@beehaw.org
      9·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • anton@feddit.de
        4·
        1 year ago

        Give wefwef a try. It’s a third party PWA app already looking very similar to Apollo.

        • thumbtack@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          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!

            • Helvedeshunden@beehaw.orgEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              One thing to be aware of is that it should probably be done with the original system browser, so Safari on iOS and Chrome / Samsung Internet on Android. At least I didn’t seem to get the option to add to home screen from Firefox on Android, and I’m also not sure every iOS browser will have add to home screen in the share sheet.

                • Helvedeshunden@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  OK, thanks. Guess I must have overlooked it when I searched for it (because I started in Firefox). I still think it’s worth to be aware of in case people use some really specialized browsers with certain limitations.

          • madjo@geddit.socialEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Go to wefwef.app in your browser. Now open the options menu of your browser (the three dots, if on Android, the square with the arrow pointing up, if on iOS) and find the option to put a bookmark on your home screen (in iOS it’s called “add to home screen”)

            This will create a sandboxed version of wefwef.app, tap it and it should load like a normal app. (this is what Apple envisioned as apps way back when, before they realized that they could make money selling apps)

            When the page has loaded, in the bottom middle, tap on “lemmy.world”, and log in to your Lemmy instance.

            Enjoy.

            One thing to be aware of. If you have selected more than one language in your Lemmy profile, wefwef fails to post comments because you need to select which language you typed in, and you can’t select that (yet?) in wefwef.

      • Fenzik@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • JD Squared@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • tuhriel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same here, loved BaconReader, (not sire why it’s not mentioned that often)
      got the message popup yesterday ;-(
      But you are right, might be a good moment to detox a bit