• Fizz@lemmy.nz
    13·
    2 hours 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.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    20·
    4 hours 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.

    • Kurroth@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

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

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    92·
    7 hours 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
      34·
      6 hours 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
      21·
      6 hours 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.

      • theangryseal@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 hours ago

        This is me on many topics. I am so uninformed over the last year.

        I love Lemmy, but I’m in a smaller bubble than I was before too. There are a lot less political opinions on here. People are outright hostile to anything that doesn’t fit in a narrow window, and though I mostly agree with what passes through that window, my idea of the world is off because of it. (Example, my wife uses Facebook. We both voted for Harris, but she was certain Trump would win. She was seeing what everyone was saying and I wasn’t. Imagine my surprise when she lost the election so terribly. My little bubble had me convinced he didn’t stand a chance.)

        I try occasionally to open Reddit. I know that Lemmy hates stock traders, but Reddit is where you get the best info on that. I’m a stay at home dad who contributes entirely by trading so I need to look at what people are researching from time to time.

        I just can’t stand the Reddit app. I can’t stand clicking on ads without realizing it because of how they blend it in.

        I can’t stand the kind of greed that led to the decision that killed third party apps.

        I miss it, but not bad enough to have a subpar experience on there. That, and I believe in a federated social media future. Tech companies are garbage.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    371·
    6 hours ago

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  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    9 hours 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
      9·
      5 hours 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
        4·
        3 hours 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.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 hours ago

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

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      5 hours 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.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      11·
      7 hours 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
          4·
          5 hours 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.

    • ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      10 hours 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.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.world
        35·
        10 hours ago

        Back in 2014 RIF was $2 one time purchase for a completely ad free experience. I knew that couldn’t last forever, but I enjoyed the 9 years I did have.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 hours ago

    Anyone remember The Button or r/place? That was peak reddit for me since it brought together the entire community. When they stopped doing stuff like that despite the community’s love for it is around when I started seeing the writing on the wall that they were ultimately there to make money and couldn’t waste engineering hours on “frivolous” community engagement.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      13·
      5 hours ago

      I have a hard time not personally blaming this on spez, tbh. After he lied about Apollo’s dev’s (I don’t remember which app) phone conversation then they showed up with the damn recording to prove it wrong.

      Like, for real, the conversation was something like

      • dev: Or you could just buy me out for $X ha
      • spez: Are you threatening us?
      • dev: What? No, it was just a joke, because you said it costs $X for my app to hit your server
      • spez: oh, okay, I understand you now, I’m sorry.

      Later…

      • spez: This dev threatened us.
  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    62·
    6 hours ago

    I think the true cutoff for me with Reddit was when they perma banned me for commenting that I should in fact be allowed to punch nazis (pretty sure it was a mass report thing going on)

    • actually@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I was temp banned from all Reddit when I messaged the mods in a subreddit to complain about a post.

      I think thousands of people did the same thing that day, it was a really obnoxious comment section that ticked off many ; but someone had connections and they issued everyone who complained a three day ban site wide.

  • nicomachus@programming.devEnglish
    301·
    10 hours ago

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