• ggppjj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      27 days 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·
        27 days 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.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      11·
      27 days 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·
          27 days 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.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      27 days 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.

      • dev_null@lemmy.ml
        3·
        27 days ago

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

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    92·
    27 days 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
      37·
      27 days 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
      22·
      27 days 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
        6·
        27 days 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.

  • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    27 days 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·
      27 days 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
        5·
        27 days 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.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    381·
    27 days ago

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  • nicomachus@programming.devEnglish
    301·
    27 days ago

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

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    21·
    27 days 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·
      27 days ago

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

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    14·
    27 days 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.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    27 days ago

    So, did Reddit lose a considerable amount of user base since then or not?

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
      402·
      27 days ago

      Not really. They’re sort of succeeding. They just became profitable, I think, for the first period ever.

      Got more users on Lemmy though, including me, so that’s a win in my book.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      27 days ago

      From a statistics standpoint, definitely not.

      As of Q4 of 2023, reddit claimed 36.4 million logged-in ‘daily active’ users. An increase from Q3 of 2023 with a count of 34.7 million. Not sure of the accuracy of user counts for lemmy, but good estimate is about 450,000 total users over it’s entire lifespan, if every single one of those was a reddit convert, we’d still be a minor blip. I don’t know if we have 2024 numbers that are comparable, but most stats indicate that reddit is likely still growing.

      Spez predicted what would happen in that protest with almost 100% accuracy and most mods involved didn’t follow through and backed down. Some are trying to build something new and that’s worth pursuing but we lost that fight.

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        27 days ago

        I do have to wonder how many of those millions of users are bots. Browsing /r/all, you can find plenty of weird pseudopornographic subreddits like /r/ReallyGorgeous, which are populated by literally thousands of bots upvoting and commenting on fake selfies posted by the most obviously stolen accounts. Report these accounts all you want, the admins don’t care.

      • Wahots@pawb.social
        7·
        27 days ago

        Lol, I blacked out my sub and then never returned. Not sure what happened to it, but reddit is so god awful I don’t even bother trying to check.

        • Forester@yiffit.net
          14·
          27 days ago

          Oh it’s really simple. You will have been removed as a moderator for defacing Reddit content. Reddit will then ban you. Aunt reinstate their authority and make sure that their user base has full access to their content . Remember next time to not be a pesky little shit . How dare you try to block spaz and his followers from accessing content that you created but they own . /S Ask me how I know

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      10·
      27 days ago

      Depends on what you mean by that. A small fraction left but it was sizable enough for Lemmy to become my home.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
      9·
      27 days ago

      No. Too many users were used to the trash official app because that’s how many of them came to find Reddit because of the app’s release.

      Can’t know what you’re missing if you never experienced it.

      But honestly that’s partly why Reddit was going down the tubes when all these Facebook folk started coming to “that new app Reddit” and treating it like Fb 2.0 so it was for the best for the rest of us to leave and find alternatives.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.world
    8·
    27 days 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·
      27 days 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.