Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.
Hello Memmy 🫡
You may have already seen this, but there is a web app for Lemmy that looks and functions very similar to Apollo:
I’ve been trying it today, and it’s pretty good.
Holy shit, the developer has put some serious work in. I didn’t know web apps could be that good. There’s some insane attention to detail going on here
Wefwef feels like home. I was using Apollo for years and this feels very natural
+1
Incredible, and the dev keeps updating it like twice a day.
I’m also running a copy alongside my instance, thelemmy.club at app.thelemmy.club
I never was really fond of web apps but this is great.
Damn, that looks just like Apollo!
That’s the idea, but better because Fediverse>Reddit.
Wow! It really does feel very similar to Apollo. It will undoubtedly make the transition easier.
Thanks!
🙏
Damn… I hadn’t been paying attention and thought that was actually exclusively an iOS app when I’d seen it mentioned before… Looks interesting.
You can use it oN Android and feels ilegal, but ilegally awesome.
Nah, it’s for everyone.
And if you save it to your Home Screen as an app it feels really good to use.
Yes… This is what I learned and the reason for my comment. It looks very interesting as I said. Not bad at all.
WTF! i been on lemmy for 2 weeks and this is my first time seeing this! Thanks
e: This is friggin amazing!
No prob, fam!
I’m just curious; why is it a web app and not something you can download? The black bar in the bottom of the screen makes it feel weird, also the fact that upvote/downvote colors are reversed. Other than that, it soothens my withdrawals from Apollo, and I think I’ll be using it a fair amount alongside Memmy (which feels nice, it’s not a 100% carbon copy, but familiar)
Click the share button and save it your home screen it’ll save and operate as an app. It’s a web app just a new build option that makes it easier for something to be accessible in multiple ways.
Didn’t the Apollo developer say that he was planning on porting his app to the fediverse?
Voyager now… i know this thread us really old.
No, some other apps have
I just joined Lemmy today after uninstalling Reddit Is Fun. It was absolutely surreal just how much habit was in pulling out my phone and pressing the space where RIF used to be. Decided I’m kind of mostly done with Reddit other than quick information look ups on the website.
So here I am! First post! The only constant in life is change. Hello everyone, I hope we all get along! :)
I’m going to leave RIF right where it’s been on my home screen for the last decade, as a little memorial.
hello, I’m also new here. There are a veritable tonne of third party apps being actively developed for Lemmy. No doubt you’ll find one to fill the void left by RIF in short order
I’m hoping to find a good one. Apollo was fantastic, and I’d love to find something in that vein, but so far searching “lemmy” in the app store for iOS hasn’t turned up anything.
I guess I need to give it a little time.
Deleted my 7-year-old Reddit account today. I’m not willing to leave any contributions to a website that actively wants to prevent me from contributing.
I keep turning on my phone and going straight for the empty spot where the rif icon was. Crazy it might take a while to shake
Get a lemmy app and put it there :P
Same here, but I’m still unsure if Lemmy is a good alternative. Having to sign up for every community just to upvote/downvote, comment, or post seems foolish. Posting, totally fine. Upvote/downvote and comment? That creates a problem.
I would be nice if they had centralized upvote/downvote and comments in one general login if they wanna get more users to migrate. They could allow communities to block that access if they want, for more control so only accepted users can interact, but otherwise it feels like im bound and gagged trying to use this site, at least compared to reddit.
These issues are like programming UI 101: Don’t make the user have to login to too many things or over complicate it or they won’t use it. Because of that I worry this ends up being only content interaction one way so I might as well just go back to TV or corporate media/news sites where users can’t participate.
Edit: huh, I guess you can. Well nvm this is not bad.
As long as your instance is federated with other instances you should be able to upvote/downvote/interact with any other instance’s comments, posts, etc.
You probably were trying to do so with a beehaw.org instance which was recently defederated from most other Lemmy instances
I think a lot of moderators are just going to back down and return to business-as-usual from tomorrow. Reddit will suffer as a business but this isn’t going to downright kill the site. Unlike say… Tumblr or OnlyFans, Reddit has a far more diverse clientele and many of them couldn’t give a shit about third-party apps.
These half-arsed protests staged after the 14th June have told me that most of Reddit’s mods are fucking cowards who are more afraid of losing their status as internet janitors than all the third-party apps.
Reddit’s moderators could have easily brought the site to its knees if they just collectively stopped enforcing rules (including site-wide ones), removed Automoderator, unbanned everybody, then told the community to just go nuts.
The mods of /r/interestingasfuck had the right idea by encouraging users to post NSFW content, since this would have chased away advertisers in droves.
I mean the whole “sexy pics of John Oliver” protest that /r/pics had isn’t going to chase away advertisers and was something that Spez could easily ignore, but having your content displayed alongside a flood of explicit pornographic images definitely will.
I’d argue it will become like Facebook, with the younger and more intelligent crowd leaving the site.
Excuse me! I’m older and more intelligent, thank you very much.
I’d argue that you’re right, and that it has already happened. If the bootlicking crowd on Reddit is actually organic users hearing a call to action to start commenting after months and years of inactivity, that is. Reddit is known to operate large networks of sock puppet accounts for fake engagement and narrative control (per Venture Beat’s reporting, which quotes an admission from Huffman).
Plausible. With only a fraction of Reddit’s supposed size, Lenny+kbin are already nearing parity in quality of discourse.
Man, if you told me a couple months ago, that I would stop using Reddit, I wouldn’t believe you. I’ve been on it over a decade. It took Spez ONE MONTH to undo everything and make that a reality.
Ditto. It’s impressive how quickly he screwed the pooch.
I wonder how many people who didn’t understand Reddit that well and just used it to scroll r/aww just woke up to disabled third party apps one day and figure that Reddit went under. I have to imagine they lost less internet literate users.
Over a decade lurking on reddit; never posted. Just made a lemmy account. I don’t need lemmy to be “the next big thing”… just need it to not be overrun by bots and astroturfing. Hopefully some of the smaller subs I visit move over.
Hiya Lemmy.world, another Reddit refugee here, pleased to join you fine folk.
I hope Lemmy will be successful, and maintain healthy communities.
I hope Reddit fully dies off- that site is a cesspool and deserves to meet a fate similar to tumblr & myspace.
Tumblr? Tf u mean? It’s still doing pretty well, MySpace lost all content posted before 2016 and is now a useless empty husk. Tumblr is just smaller, but still active. This comparison makes no sense.
Yeah. Hell, a bunch of people just joined tumblr from reddit. There’s a whole reddit refugee tag that was trending for a minute there.
Can’t be worse than what Musk just did.
Spez: Challenge Accepted.
Ye, but is it a different website? And at least Twitter original app was half decent.
What did musk just do?
Basically the dude is DDOSing Twitter itself and using it as an excuse to ratelimit up the ass the entire userbase, including ppl who bought Blue (kinda ironic if you ask me lmao)
My final RIF r/all
Sure hope things take off here. Fuck reddit.
I realized that at work today, I didn’t even check reddit at all beyond my initial opening of it. Checked Lemmy the rest of the day.
That and did actual work because everything was fucked at work but that’s beside the point.
I love how my subscribed are all in one list now, as opposed to have to select each one…other than that however, I honestly wouldn’t want to change much else. Somehow it makes it easier to explore. Reddit made it too easy to set in ritual…or it seems I’m hitting more topics here anyway
I’ll add the obligatory farewell to RIF - “the app I was happy to pay for”. This seems like an interesting alternative - I hope the back end is up for it! I won’t be going back to Reddit on principle.
Even as somebody who has never used, and will likely never need Apollo, I am really grateful for what he did. However unintentionally, I think he ripped the mask off how rotten the management structure was. It’s one thing to sell ads and collect hidden metadata. Pretty much all the apps do it. But the whole way Reddit treated him was beyond despicable.
Agreed. When I saw the Apollo thread, my first thought was ‘Nah, not even spez would do this’ but I choked on that very fast when I saw the e-mails, the audio recordings and everything. It was so blatant, so asinine, so horribly fucked up.
I’ve never used the Apollo app, but millions of people did and in stead of thanking him for all his work, reddit just stabbed him in the back. Can’t believe there are people still taking reddit’s side on this, it’s crazy.
There goes RiF, so there goes me. Almost 12 years of Reddit, gone.
PSA: You can use browser scripts to securely delete your posts and comments. Don’t gift Reddit your content. Force search engines to scrub dead Reddit links from their results.
