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How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?

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[-] BuddhaBeettle@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Didn't even know what a 3rd party app was until the protests (never used reddit on my phone to limit the amount of time spent there, and was never very tech savvy).
Left because of other reasons, like a couple mods of communities I love packing up and leaving and the sheer principle of it all.

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[-] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

There's no way this poll is accurate. Just looking at the Play Store the official app has 100M+ downloads. The bext closest, rif, has 5M+. I think people underestimate how many casual users go straight to the official app and don't care about any of this is.

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[-] s_s@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

I used Sync up until last week.

Won't be back.

[-] kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

During my 13.5 years of Reddit, I've used at least these, in possibly this order

  • Alien Blue (RIP)
  • Bacon Reader
  • Reddit is Fun
  • Reddit Sync
  • Joey, for the last ~6 years

Don't browse Reddit anymore, apps or browser. If I do end up visiting via Google, I use old.reddit.com.

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I did. Now I don’t use Reddit at all. Apollo.

[-] flyinghorse@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Used Apollo before, now I don't use it.

[-] ViridianNott@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I used Apollo since it’s inception, and Alien Blue before that. Now I’ve deleted all Reddit apps and exclusively use kbin, for the last week or so.

[-] JohnnyMentero@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I use 3: RedReader, Stealth & Relay

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

I used Baconreader, Relay, and in 2014 got Sync pro and have used that ever since.

I stopped using reddit for the blackout and have been trying Jerboa and /kbin since then.

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[-] ozoned@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Did. Libreddit. Now Lemmy only. #FediFTW

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[-] Mak@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Whimseymimple@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've used Joey for years. (I've never used the official app.)

I'm not using anything right now and have deleted one of my accounts. I'll be deleting the other one in the next week.

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[-] NRVulture@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Apollo. So no more reddit for me when the app shuts down officially.

I wish Christian would made an Apollo-like app for the Fediverse.

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[-] xeedufk@terefere.eu 5 points 1 year ago

Still have Apollo installed to use it until the last day. Been using less and less thou in recent 1-2 weeks.

[-] Limeade@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I used RiF. Tried a few other apps over the years, but nothing beat the clean, uncluttered UI.

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[-] spunker88@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I used RIF for over a decade, it did everything I wanted so I never sought out an alternative.

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[-] _s10e@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

The only open question is, whether at least one of the popular apps will transition Lemmy. This should doable since the concept is so similar.

The world needs good Fediverse apps. If they include mastodon, we can say good bye to Musk's twitter as well.

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[-] CandidCamel@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Apollo all the way, sad to see it go

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[-] rs5th@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I was using Apollo before... well... you know, everything.

[-] infinitevalence@discuss.online 4 points 1 year ago

I used a 3rd party app for years until last week. The bridge is burned I'm not going back.

[-] renard_roux@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

10 years on Relay. I've stopped going now.

[-] gk99@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I used to use Boost, I stopped when they banned the community showing how to switch to kbin.

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[-] monkeysuncle@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I've used RedReader for many years. When the api changes were announced I was certain I would never use reddit before, as I usually browse it on the phone. I still want to migrate away from reddit fully, but since RedReader has an api exception it's going to be more difficult to break my addiction.

[-] Sim@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

RIF was Reddit for me.

[-] hipsterscum@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I preferred the /.compact version of Reddit. They disabled it a few months back and all the alternatives suck.

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[-] idk@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Apollo until last week. Deleted Reddit account.

[-] Mane25@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

If "currently" means before the debacle (because I don't use Reddit currently): no, I'm primarily a desktop user, I used old Reddit and RES and I don't really have much personal attachment to 3rd party apps (that doesn't mean I won't stand with those who do).

I think that the API issue is more of a symptom of something much more deeply wrong with Reddit, if it wasn't the API it would have been some other breaking point.

[-] LittleKerr@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

RIF, though I haven't visited Reddit in the last week. Call it me training for the 30th

[-] obosob@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

I recently bought RIF golden platinum just to give back to the dev, knowing that very soon the app will stop working. I'm hoping the dev could reuse his code and swap out the backend to make a lemmy client of the same caliber. It really is a good app.

I've been using Slide basically since I started using Reddit.

It was the only client that fits all my requirement (it being FOSS and in F-droid being the most important one), while having a non-cluttered UI and a good dark theme.

It has basically been a dead project for 2 years but I never had any reason to move away from it.

Well, now that's I'm quitting Reddit, it's a good way to move away from it.

[-] Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

I use the Apollo app and wait until the ship sinks…

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

reddit is not fun anymore

[-] LewsTherinTelescope@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago
[-] PolySeaOfTrees@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I started with RIf for ten first few years and then switched over to Sync. I loved the customization that Sync provides

[-] Minty@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Sync, but I already got rid of it and my Reddit stuff.

[-] narc0tic_bird@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I used Apollo. Now I'm only using it to check whether Christian Selig commented on anything, but nothing more than that.

I plan to nuke my last remaining Reddit account on June 30th.

[-] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Have used various third party apps in the past, won't name, they've never been too bad.

Usually neater and pay homage to the original style of Reddit as a long form text based forum,. From what I've seen, the official Reddit app and front page on desktop has evolved into a Facebook style newsfeed of images and short videos.

Not my jam

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

RIF right until I stopped using reddit.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

Depends on how "currently" is defined. If it means right now, then no. However, if it means until all this then yes. I used to use redreader before i nuked my accounts and content in protest and came to lemmy full time

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