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[–] [email protected] 240 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's incredible that I was on reddit for 13 years or something, daily, maybe I spent 20'000 hours there. Then I dropped after the API fiasco (I'm a SyncPro user) and never went back, I have no clue what's going on since ~July and I don't care and I don't miss it :)

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to leave Reddit before but every exodus always had huge DDOS effects on alternatives. Lemmy however has retained a good community after the exodus.

Also the Jerboa app is amazing. Not missing Reddit at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve been using an app called voyager for lemmy and have it looking like my old Apollo app. I have no reason to return to Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best thing, Voyager's a webapp/website in an app wrapper, and doesn't have more invasive permissions than I'd prefer too. And the interface is sleek af. I unfortunately have to use facebook on firefox mobile as well and that is atrocious. Wild.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might want to give the Orion browser a whirl. It has some support for extensions to make the web less enshittified. I just came across it a week ago and I’ve been quite impressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox mobile isn't atrocious, Facebook's support for mobile website is. Also, I'm sure Orion is a great browser but it touting itself for the dark web and having a 3.5 rating on the play store didn't particularly inspire confidence for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I use it in iOS because even Firefox doesn’t support its own extensions. Seems better than any other browser in iOS that I’ve tried. But on Android I’d probably go with Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I used sync for reddit pro when they announced they were moving to Lemmy. I was looking for a reddit alternative with the API stuff. Now I'm here with the UI I knew and loved, though I wish my pro account transfered over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. I forget I’m not using Apollo it’s such a good clone.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

same here, i just visit it if I need a question answered nowadays

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same boat, don’t even have a Reddit account any longer, and I’ve noticed an uptick in content that is login-only, so even more reason to not even visit the site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They've blocked my VPN so I can't even look at it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Samesies buddy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Same. I have a very low tolerance for companies that don't respect their customers/users. I hated New Reddit but fortunately old Reddit was (and is still) available. But thats a shit experience on mobile. And you can't use RES to make it better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same. And did the same with Digg prior to that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am also a Digg refugee from the infamous v4 in august/september 2010 !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never heard of it. I left in 2007 during the infamous AACS key controversy