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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by romp_2_door@lemmy.world to c/boostforlemmy@lemmy.world

The Boost for Reddit app still worked for a while after the big shutdown with workarounds, like creating a mod account or using revanced.

Not anymore, as of today, the Boost for Reddit app is completely 100% dead now.

Goodbye reddit forever, hello lemmy

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[-] rmayayo@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Edit: Working again

Reddit did some change in the API that breaks many apps. As far as I know they are aware of the issue and will fix it. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1d3spoc/error_getting_submitted_with_mobile_useragent/

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 104 points 2 years ago

I misread your title and thought you were saying that the Boost for Lemmy app was now dead. I'm glad I was mistaken.

[-] YaksDC@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago
[-] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I was like: "huh? But I'm using Boost right now!"

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 years ago

I like lemmy but reddit is still difficult to replace due to lack of content and active communities. But I ain't using the official app so I guess here we are.

[-] Kit 46 points 2 years ago

You get used to it. Sorting by New and challenging yourself to kick off conversations helps.

[-] deezbutts@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago

I'd also point out that less content has become a good thing for me.

Less endless doom scrolling, more contributing to discussions and touching grass.

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

The thing is I use reddit mostly for fun stuff. I took out a lot of the political stuff that was getting me down. There's not nearly as many niche cute cat subs or active hobbyist game subs on lemmy.

[-] jackalope@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I've been on lemmy like 2 years. I like it but I wouldn't say I've gotten used to it.

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[-] deathdoomed2@lemmings.world 27 points 2 years ago

I discovered Lemmy today thanks to Boost lol

[-] helios@social.ggbox.fr 4 points 2 years ago
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[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

Reddit been dead for awhile, homie. Welcome.

[-] martin77@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago

I bought Boost for Lemmy on day 1 and come once in a while but let's be honest people haven't migrated off Reddit (and likely never will ) so outside of a few very specific subs there is barely anything for me to read over here...

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

It's very tech focused over here, but that makes a lot of sense when you consider only tech aligned people can figure out how to get it all working as it is.

[-] Misk@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I kinda like the fact that it's only tech savvy people on here tbh. Kinda like it used to be back in the day, before everyone in the world and their cousin figured out how to get online.

Normaloids ruined the internet. It's nice to have a niche little corner of the web that they don't know about yet so they can't come and spoil it (yet) with all their endless pointless bickering and recycled political garbage reposting. Long live the 90s web 2.0 revival ๐Ÿ˜›

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[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

Welcome! Lemmy is a pretty fun place.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

We got authentic weirdos unlike them Reddit fake bot weirdos.

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

yeah.

weirdos like me!

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[-] TonyStew@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It appears they're now blacklisting user-agents with "android" in them, people are putting out revanced patches for different clients.

[-] iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

I wonder whether reddit will kill the free API access next.

[-] oh_my_lawdy@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago

There's an incoming patch from revanced that will fix a few of the reddit clients including boost. Check revanced manager for new patches in the next few hours and you can patch boost for reddit and get it working again.

https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/pull/3234

[-] x_cell@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 years ago

Very sad day indeed.

I was already using reddit less. I guess this is the final goodbye.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

The only 3rd party reddit app I know that is still free is RedReader. Might be others too.

Sucks they refuse to let up on the API ban but it's cool, we needed to get off reddit anyway.

My doom scrolling is way down over the past year.

[-] ericthemighty@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I feel like Lemmy is not very active though, unfortunately. Or maybe I'm on the wrong Lemmy and not subscribed to enough communities or whatever they call sublemmies.

[-] CapeData@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago
[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 9 points 2 years ago

Seems to be the real cause. I tried the official app for shits and giggles, can't even log in. So yeah they fucked up pretty hard.

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[-] SoWeDragonBallin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

I came to see if there was any chatter on this... I have a feed but no comments load. โ˜น๏ธ Are there any other options besides maybe (revanced) official reddit, if that's still a thing?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I believe a few apps got exceptions, but I don't remember which.

Redreader looks open source and it seems to be working. It's a lot more limited, which might be a good thing

[-] SoWeDragonBallin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Ah redreader I'll look into that, revanced keeps failing to patch the official reddit app for me. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

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[-] timexyz@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

I just installed Atom for reddit, it's pretty barebones but works for me

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[-] MentorKitten@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Known about lemmy for a while since the API protests, but finally took the chance to actually make an account due to this. I assume there will be a patch for this on revanced but meh

[-] overload@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

Ah, bugger. I guess that's it for reddit on mobile for me then.

[-] panja@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah my vanced sync stopped working as well... Not sure what to do

[-] lemmytry@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Same here was looking for info but couldn't find anything, it works if you log out so I'm guessing it's the revanced API thing that's finally broken.

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Y'know I tried using boost for lemmy since that's what I used for reddit, then I noticed how jam packed full of ads it is (just like reddit).

Jerboa has a lot of the same features and is completely ad free

[-] Schal330@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

After having used Boost for Reddit for so long I was happy to cough up a bit of money to get Boost for Lemmy to not have any ads. Jerboa was great for a free app, but for me the user experience felt free. I haven't used it since BfL came out so not sure if it's improved since then.

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[-] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Oh, i uninstalled BfR immediately when i heard what was happening over there. I'm glad there's BfL though! Dev seems just as active here as he was over there. This definitely scratches my itch for Reddit, though i wish more users were here in the places i like to browse :'( i need more motivation to get back into my hobbies, but i fear that all died alongside Reddit. sigh

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 points 2 years ago
[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago

Yup but it's so much less convenient to use

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[-] Woodcat64@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

It was working just two hours ago. Now, what am I going to do with all the free time?

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

So this was a screw up on reddit's end and also broke their official app for some people. They seem to have rolled that change back as of this morning. My revanced copy of baconreader works again

[-] alilbee@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I was wondering why the redlib frontends stopped working today. Oh well, probably for the best this way.

[-] DeltaZSK@lemdro.id 6 points 2 years ago
[-] baruchin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I can confirm. As of today I'm unable to load my front page or any of my subs.

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's back ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฅณ

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Actually Infinity is also dead for some reason so I guess I'm deleting reddit? Great

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Bacon reader as well, I haven't used it much since last year, but I found I could browse without being signed in.

Just checked it, and it's dead.

Fuck the pedophile u/spez

Oh well good riddance.

[-] mister_newbie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Works again this morning

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