I used Sync. Sync went to Lemmy. I moved to Lemmy.
Upvoting from my sync app.
Up vote this if you also did! ☝️
Downvoting from my sync app.
Why would people do this? Seems kind of mean. I thought we were having fun together…
Because you’re just fishing for upvotes
What? I’m telling everyone to up vote the other dude ffs.
Sadly people are just stupid and cynical, but I see it dude 😎
Sync downvote feature works great!
Why, bro?
It’s meaningless anyway. What karma are you gonna farm?
I’m telling everyone to up vote someone else, for fun. I try to be nice, you know, have some camaraderie, but everyone down votes me instead. Like, I thought we were different from Reddit, somehow. 😑 I don’t care about karma, I care about the actions themselves, and it disappoints me.
I mean in general upvotes or down votes are fairly meaningless on this platform.
Same, Sync was Reddit to me.
Absolutely. Every other interface was trash.
And the official app and web interface were a port-a-potty upturned into a flaming dumpster.
And the official app and web interface were a port-a-potty upturned into a flaming dumpster.
Could you believe that there are some poor souls that just went straight to Reddit using that garbage app and didn’t even make the effort to patch Sync?
The patching never worked consistently for me, and after I bit I realized that Reddit wasn’t a place I wanted to be anymore.
The patch works fantastically for me, but I agree on the last part.
Same. Except I moved before Sync on Lemmy was a thing so went with Jerboa. Then the prices for Sync came out (I had bought it for Reddit before and refused to have ads ever), and I just stayed with Jerboa.
I used Sync for Reddit. I still do (Vanced patch) but I used to too.
There are dozens of us!
Yup
Apollo… I miss Apollo. Voyager is nice but I still miss Apollo.
It’s at least possible to sideload Apollo and use your own API key for it.
Wait… what?
EXPLAINNNNN!!
https://github.com/Balackburn/Apollo
You’ll have to install AltStore (or Sideloady) on your computer + phone to resign the app each week (this can happen automatically if they’re on the same wifi network). You can make your own personal API key at https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ (It’s limited to 100 requests per 10 mins, which you wont run into browsing by yourself). Also as long as you moderate a subreddit (I think even if it’s just an empty one you make), NSFW content wont be blocked on the API.
Also while you’re sideloading, I’d highly recommend uYouPlus for a better youtube app
Thanks I’ll dig into this. I already have uYouPlus and Ignited (Delta emulated but better). But I may try to get Apollo instead of YouTube which I barely use.
Omg I’ve been looking for a better YouTube app for iOS thank you!! I have an Apple Developer account but I haven’t paid the yearly fee in a while so my powers are limited with it
The arichornlover/uYouEnhanced fork is better supported currently.
Thank you
Do you still miss Apollo? Considering how far Mlem and Voyager have come.
I’m actually using Arctic. To me, it has all the features I liked, including community grouping. But yes, I still mill Apollo, I miss the Reddit communities in a good app. I may also just be nostalgia.
I didn’t know they had that feature! Interesting!
They call it multi-community
Interestingly, Narwhal remained open ahead of Narwhal 2’s release without users having to pay anything. I asked Harrison in June how that was possible, but he said he couldn’t explain due to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with Reddit. I asked again for this story, and Harrison said he couldn’t provide full details but noted, “Reddit was willing to work with me so that I could transition the app to subscriptions in a reasonable timeframe, especially considering it’s not my full-time job.”
That is interesting given all the shit Spez gave Christian about just this issue with respect to Apollo.
Same with RIF and hell half the other apps. Dude straight up didn’t want to work with anyone.
I believe part of the difference between the two apps is Apollo had yearly subscriptions users which Reddit didn’t seem to want to accommodate for, so he would have been on the hook paying for those users. While Narwhal just had a ad unlock making it easier to move to version 2 with a subscription.
The Apollo dev also posted his dissent.
I still blame Reddit.
Too bad the article only mentions apps migrating to Lemmy as a single line in a huge article. Would have been nice to hear about the transition process.
Its like they went out of their way to not mention Sync, Boost, and the other apps that pivoted. One little sentence that I missed on first read through is all they get.
Used Boost, Boost ported to Lemmy (eventually).
Kinda lost a reason to use reddit after most of my subs got banned, shadow banned, or admin mod changed so they could ban content.
And no it wasn’t anything insane, it was stuff like r/dankvideos
I use Memmy and voyager on Lemmy after Apollo died.
I sneak back into Reddit using the rdx interface though. As much as I hate what they did, there is so much more user engagement on Reddit and what is a small niche community on Lemmy is bustling and thriving there
It’s still a 50/50 split
What is that rdx interface?
There is an app on iOS called Sink It for Reddit. It’s basically a Safari extension that makes Reddit.com suck less. But, you should avoid Reddit. Lemmy is our new home.
Sync moved to Lemmy, so I moved to Lemmy. Then I switched to Voyager.
Almost the same story here. Switched to Sync for Lemmy when it became available, left after a few months due being unhappy with it for a variety of reasons, then tried a bunch of clients (Boost, Eternity, Voyager), though I ended up choosing Boost in the end.
I use Lemmy now because of Sync but I really hate the normal web UI. It’s awful. I wish they would update it to make it more pleasing to the eye. I simply avoid Lemmy when on my PC.
I really like the default look of Lemmy, it’s refreshingly clean and functional unlike most social media sites these days. And it doesn’t have infinite scrolling which I hate.
On Lemmy.world you can use old.lemmy.world for a theme similar to old.reddit.com.
Which is also outdated and has been outdated, which is why they redesigned it. An actual, modern UI would do wonders for the platform.
Interesting, I actually kinda like Lemmy’s UI. Still imperfect though
Like wtf is this. How is Reddit adding an API cost an exercise for you to triple it?
Surprised to see no mention of RedReader?
This is the app that I used before I left Reddit and I heard they got exempt from the API charges. Is that still the case? Still seems to be on F-Droid.
What a waste of article by ASStechnica. Not a single mention of Apollo, you know the most popular Reddit client by far.
Wha? They talked to Apollo’s dev at the end?
Or do you mean a breakdown of the numbers and such?
FYI for those confused by parent comment or the comment I’m replying to: if you use the reader mode of the in- app browser, the article is cut off quite early and there’s no indication that there’s more to be read if you read it directly.
Being the most popular for an OS that only had two choices isn’t that big of a flex, tbf
Yeah they’ve gone way downhill the past few years. I was a paid subscriber for over a decade and finally canceled last year as the quality just wasn’t there anymore, even the one great comment sections kinda suck now too.
Reddit killed Joey - long after their stated cutoff date, how did they fuck that up? Anyway, now I have Lemmy+Eternity.
Ctrl+F “lemmy”, only 2 occurences, that’s sad.
And they’re both in the same sentence.
