Apps saying goodbye to Reddit and immediately becoming fediverse apps instead : 196

[-] stillline@lemm.ee 265 points 1 year ago

Its so nice being on a platform where the first 1000 comments on every post aren't just low effort jokes.

[-] talik@feddit.de 96 points 1 year ago

I haven’t even considered this. Most users on Reddit are lurkers. It doesn’t take many of us to make new communities worth visiting

[-] Raildrake@vlemmy.net 61 points 1 year ago

Former lurker checking in, trying to take this new start on Lemmy as a way to participate more and hopefully contribute a bit, I wonder how many will do the same coming from reddit.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

I am! Mostly lurked because by the time I got to threads they were already too popular and were flooded with hundreds of comments.

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[-] ivenoidea@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Currently a lot of places here feel how Reddit used to be when I joined up. I quite like it.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 year ago

Your low-effort comment wasn't even funny.

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[-] tourist@community.destinovate.com 40 points 1 year ago

Coming to a comment thread to reply "this" feels so cheugy. When I think of the heydey of reddit, I think of 2011 in my dorm room doing the grow a college subreddit. And here we are twelve years later and the best experience you can get now is exactly that same experience.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

this.

[-] hemmes@vlemmy.net 13 points 1 year ago

Cheugy

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[-] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A month or two ago I got a bunch of downvotes for explaining why I didn't like a game. The people responding said it was because my comment was "too long." It was like six sentences. Why are these people on Reddit instead of Twitter?

[-] Saulot@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

The fuck does cheugy mean?

[-] tourist@community.destinovate.com 14 points 1 year ago

Cheugy – A pejorative description of lifestyle trends associated with the early 2010s

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[-] BitPirate@feddit.de 38 points 1 year ago

You forgot reposts for karma whoring.

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[-] Relaxxx@vlemmy.net 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah lve been a lurker for over 10 years over there and I was sick of all the karma whoring, the low quality posts and especially the pun threads that would bend my face with cringe. Hopefully we can get things right on the Lemmy-verse

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[-] Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 116 points 1 year ago

Would love for the Apollo app developer Christian to get on board and join the Wefwef developers to make a native app.

[-] shade@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Found wefwef today and love it.

I was kind of bummed when I realized it wasn’t a native app, but so far it’s been working great regardless.

[-] ivenoidea@feddit.de 33 points 1 year ago

I’ve added it to my Home Screen and to be honest I can barely tell it’s not a native app. It’s shockingly well put together so far.

[-] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago

the native site added as an app isn't half bad either, it works in a very similar way but it just has some UI niggles

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[-] WhiskeyZac@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I only viewed reddit through apollo; if he can shift, I’ll absolutely stay with apollo over reddit.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is for you

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[+] bobthened@feddit.uk 60 points 1 year ago

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[-] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync and Boost officially are.

Infinity for Everything (Fediverse) is on GitHub.

wefwef and Memmy are starting to feel like Apollo already.

Connect seems to be inching closer to Relay with each update, and Jerboa gives off RiF vibes.

People need to post about this on reddit more to perhaps encourage the other devs to do the same; might've actually worked for Boost cuz the dev didn't originally plan to port it to Lemmy it seems

[-] S_H_K@lemmy.fmhy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I'm using wefwef right now I'm honestly Impressed!

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[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is absolutely nuts as a PWA, was looking forward to Sync for Lemmy but as a former heavy iOS user this is so cool!

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[-] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 year ago

Boost is the one I'm looking forward to the most. Highly customizable and highly streamlined

[-] herzberd 19 points 1 year ago

Boost is a legitimately perfect app for the format IMO. I'm so so so glad it's coming over

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[-] Bread_And_Buried@vlemmy.net 27 points 1 year ago

In addition to the others mentioned, someone is making an unofficial port of Slide.

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, it's the best reddit app hands down.

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[-] h34d@feddit.de 24 points 1 year ago

Developer of RedReader also said they want to eventually support Lemmy and perhaps tildes and hacker news, even though RedReader got an exemption from the api fees for now. But as a "long-term vision", so probably not immediately.

[-] spiderman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Sync, Boost are some of the apps I know

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Sadly, it's going to become a Tildes app apparently.

Don't despair though, you can get fairly close with the Connect app with a few settings changes already.

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[-] Yaks@lemmy.fmhy.ml 48 points 1 year ago

Sync has announced that they are developing for Lemmy and I am so down for it.

[-] scarrtt@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Sync is a remarkably well made app, I was delighted to see that announcement

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[-] Chatotorix@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I gotta admit that I'm a bit disappointed with the owner of Relay for Reddit as he decided to stay and turn it into a subscription model. He might have attached his cart to the wrong horse. That's what I want to believe anyway.

[-] SoLongSealion@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's probably hard to give up entirely on an app you've been working on for so long.

[-] TechnoBabble@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Won't all nsfw content be invisible to third-party apps?

So people aren't paying to keep reddit alive, they're paying to have some advertiser friendly, bot-ridden husk of reddit available outside the official app.

Those outsized API fees don't even get you the original reddit experience, it's disgusting.

I don't blame the dev, but I also don't understand his decision.

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[-] Lzwzli@reddthat.com 25 points 1 year ago

Baconreader, please become a fediverse app!

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[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago

I begged the boost dev to make a Lemmy app, I sent him several DMs and made a post about it

I like to think I contributed to his decision

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[-] gabuwu@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

Which apps are specifically turning into fediverse apps? Very curious.

[-] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync and Boost officially are.

Infinity for Everything (Fediverse) is on GitHub.

wefwef and Memmy are starting to feel like Apollo already.

Connect seems to be inching closer to Relay with each update, and Jerboa gives off RiF vibes.

People need to post about this on reddit more to perhaps encourage the other devs to do the same; might've actually worked for Boost cuz the dev didn't originally plan to port it to Lemmy it seems

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[-] Relaxxx@vlemmy.net 14 points 1 year ago

I've been test driving android apps for lemmy for hours now and it's been fun but I'd love to see one with a RIF UX. Any chance we can convince Andy to develop RIF for lemmy?

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[+] donut4ever@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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