It actually happened.
  • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I hope we get better content. I’m really tired of all the posts on the frontpage being meta. Like i had to scroll to find anything about the student loan news. I go to reddit and boom I get actual content still.

    … i want conversations about things that aren’t lemmy or reddit. … memes are cool but man most of the frontpage that isn’t meta is memes. … Fingers crossed it gets better soon.

  • nogreens@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Been a redditor since 2010, RiF user from about 2015 on, then Apollo user since 2020. There’s a few work related subs I’ll still visit occasionally on a web browser (using old.reddit of course) but other than that I’m officially done.

  • TGQP@vlemmy.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is so short sighted by the Reddit C suite. It makes literally no sense for them to kill these apps when every argument they made for killing them was in bad faith.

  • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I was still using Slide, I was hoping it was under the radar enough that it would squeak by but nope. Goodbye Reddit. I was user 4163 16 years ago, and now it’s time to get the fediverse up and going.

  • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve now been tricked twice into breaking my Reddit boycott just to check and see if Infinity still works or not, and it still does.

    Maybe Infinity just has enough fewer users than something like Apollo that Infinity hasn’t reached the request limit to where it’s been shut off yet.

    (I don’t actually mean I was tricked. ;) )

      • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I meant that I loaded up Infinity specifically to check and see if Infinity still worked or not. Not to access any particular Reddit content. But Infinity still worked for me after I first saw this thread.

    • bzbb@vlemmy.netEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      From what i heard recently, infinity is going to be subscribtion based from now on… so probably devs didnt stop app from working but are yet to implement subsciption

      • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Interesting. I’m not sure how that works with an Open Source app. Will the API key be in the source repo? Will there be a server that Infinity routes through that adds the API key to the request? Will future versions of Infinity be proprietary? I’ll probably look into it at some point.

  • SpooneyOdin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m here from using Joey for Reddit. I’m surprised it seems like it wasn’t as popular as the other third party apps. It was great for me

  • joelthelion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if this will have any effect on Reddit’s metrics? The blackout had almost no effect, and certainly no lasting effect. But this might.

    Not that I care, though. Lemmy is active enough nowadays, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to continue growing now.

    • TheInternetCanBeNice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Reddit’s metrics are ad sales. And I think the impact here is going to be slower, and take longer.

      Twitter’s fall has been faster because existing competitors like Facebook and Instagram can take some of their users, Mastadon takes another chunk, and Substack launched their Twitter clone Notes already. Not to mention Bluesky’s expanding public beta. If you liked Twitter and want that experience somewhere else, you’ve got good options.

      Reddit has no real competitor. There’s stuff like Hacker News, but their community is small and extremely toxic. Nothing else comes close. Until there’s a true Reddit competitor, their demise will be slow and could be easily turned around.

      You and I are of course on Lemmy. But lets be real, Lemmy isn’t a competitor to reddit. As I write this comment there are 3 users online in this community. And given how there’s already a huge amount of in-fighting and defederating amoung different Lemmy instances, this will never really take off.

      Regular people don’t want to sign up for a service and only to have it suddenly become much less useful overnight because they failed some purity test they didn’t even know they were taking.