We actually have the best case scenario here in lemmy! Those people that yelled at mods for protesting and generally don’t give a shit how awful spez is and how toxic reddit has become, don’t give a shit about the api changes so they will stay on reddit!
Meanwhile the rest of us, even if it’s a smaller number migrate here and foster a community of discussion, respect and not being a douchebag!
Even the apps that are popping up for lemmy, yes they are buggy, yes servers are slow, but not no-one really complaines because it’s a worthy growing process.
Also, and this is by far the most important thing, this decentralized structure is absolutely vital to saving the internet.
We’ve all gotten funneled into like 5 major corporate sites, and we’ve let little sites die because of it. I hope with this trend we can reverse this and switch more to a donation model.
I hope everyone on here realizes that eventually we’ll have to pay for lemmy and severs. We need to fund it, not for profit, but sustainability.
Fuck the ad model and fuck infinite growth for shareholders. Let’s just make something nice we all pitch in a few bucks for and enjoy.
To your point about how all the spez lovers stayed there, I just had a disagreement with someone here. We brought up our points like adults and I agreed I missed something in the original post and that they are right. I rarely if ever got to see that on Reddit in the last few years.
I don’t love spez, but I also wasn’t a fan of mods vandalizing existing subreddits (questionably at the request of their own community). Information the mods didn’t necessarily have any hand in creating being wiped from public access – not cool…
This has all just added Google to the list of places online that now suck a whole lot more than they even a few months ago.
It’s been about 5 years since I’ve really engaged at all with most of Reddit, the API drama and renewed push to populate the alternatives seems to have achieved exactly what you describe. I even think the small barrier to entry for registering an account in the Fediverse is filtering people.
Many of us have been longing for something like this to happen.
Those people that yelled at mods for protesting and generally don’t give a shit how awful spez is and how toxic reddit has become, don’t give a shit about the api changes so they will stay on reddit!
I uninstalled RIF and don't think I've looked at reddit since. I'd generally do most of my reddit browsing via RIF and longer posts I might pull up a browser on my PC to type on a keyboard.
But without the initial browsing on RIF, I've not felt the need to open it up at all on desktop.
I’m a mod for a city subreddit, so I’ve been checking up on it, but I have a feeling many of its users are going to end up here, and once that happens, I’m pretty sure I’ll be as done with Reddit as I am with Digg or Fark.
I checked the official app but it’s awful. So many adds that have no clear visual cues it’s an ad, so you start reading it and realize halfway it’s just an ad. It makes you so pissed you just don’t want to continue browsing.
It’s a very customizable keyboard. Which means that you can duplicate the layout you’re used to from most others, as long as you have the patience. Alas, you have to have the patience lol.
The Layton games - the DS games have been ported to Android and totally slap. As someone who never had a DS, I’m enjoying this era of the games coming to Android and being playable here.
Ice Raven - Firefox derivative that has Ublock Origin and other useful extensions such as bypass paywalls.
Boost for Reddit - Shutting down soon.
Gmail - Simple and works for me.
Geometric Weather - I check the weather daily, so this app is useful to me.
xManager (Spotify) - Mod to get rid of Spotify ads.
Neko - Tachiyomi fork for my manga
Tachiyomi J2K - Tachiyomi fork for my NSFW doujins
Discord - I use it for my anime, gaming, etc. communities.
Modded GCam - I use a custom rom on my phone, so I also have a modded gcam which significantly improves over the default camera app of my phone.
Apps that I don’t use daily, but I still find useful.
Obtanium - I really only check this app when it notifies me of a new update. Still useful since I don’t have to go to GitHub for each individual app I want to update.
F-Droid - Has open source apps.
Notion - Useful note-taking app. I use it once a while for school notes that I want to do digitally (I prefer doing notes by hand).
Poweramp - Offline music player. I use this when I am going on long road trips and need to put on airplane mode to save battery.
Interesting. I’ve never explored alternative app stores for Android, usually being happy with those I found through Google. Thanks for the heads up, I’m going to have to investigate :D
It’s going subscription based, it’s free right now while the dev figures out the pricing model. And it sounds like he had been given an extension from Reddit in order to figure this all out
Infinity is also functioning, despite throwing up a message saying that it will stop functioning on July 1, and that the developer is going to need more time to transition it to a subscription model, so who knows. I don't have a subscription, and I haven't modified it with a custom API key or anything.
It might be that Reddit decided that they would not cut off apps that said that they would transition to subscriptions after all.
Same with Boost, still working and wasn't supposed to after July 1st. There was to be no subscription for that app either, so it should have died for sure. So strange.
I wish they would copy the easy to use file system (so the phone appears as storage when plugged in via usb, rather than just DCIM) and so you can throw something onto the phone and any app can use it instead of the laborious annoying way you have to share the file with the app.
Also using outlook. I can say for certain there are some bugs with IMAP email accounts, but other than that it has been working well for me for years.
The only thing I don’t like about it (other than the IMAP bugs) is the notification sounds that are exactly the same as my work mail on PC. I get jittery whenever I hear those sounds.
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