Many popular third-party Reddit apps will be shutting down on Friday, including Apollo, RIF, Sync, and Boost, and fans of the apps are sending them off with heartfelt posts and memes.
Big shoutout to The Verge for their continued coverage of the reddit situation.
I am properly sad about this whole ordeal. I suggested, defended, and praised Reddit to my friends and acquaintances, but that Reddit is dead today.
Funny enough, this is my first post on Lemmy
Long time Apollo user and I’ve just uninstalled it after many years… Started using WefWef now and it’s really close in the interface but it still doesn’t have the all power features. The 3rd party ecosystem of Lemmy is now really strong and it’s amazing to see apps getting updates daily.
I will miss RIF.
I have a lot of niche communities that I interacted with daily. My hobbies, my profession, and other interests. Over the last 12 years.
It was a place where I went for news, discussion, and knowledge.
I’m sad, actually sad 😞
I hope I can find what I’m looking for on Lemmy. Maybe I can start and foster community. I fear the fragmented nature of the fediverse may prevent healthy growth, and keep communities broken apart and small. I don’t yet know enough to trust the stability and longevity, what if the host for an instance decides this isn’t fun anymore? What if they die? Do all the communities that depend on it also perish, and fragment to other instances?
At this point for me, the only thing I will miss is a specific subreddit that I got a weekly calendar of events from and I can just stay logged out, go to that subreddit once a week, and check it out. And I may not even have to do that because I found out yesterday that they have a Discord server.
When I heard about Apollo shutting down I toyed with the idea of using the Reddit app. Then I saw how spez handled the whole thing and realized I’m never going back.
So here I am taking the lemmy plunge. Wefwef is a godsend!
I hate the official Reddit app but I probably would have sucked it up and used it if they had handled this professionally.
Reddit can die the death its admins clearly so desperately want for it.
We will carry on without it
Apollo will always be Reddit for me. Sad to see it go this way 😢
Will there be a RIF for the fediverse?
Unfortunately no, the developer is making an app for Tildes instead, which is an invite-only forum.
Personally I quite like Jerboa, although it’s buggy if your instance isn’t on 0.18 (yours isn’t), and I also quite like https://wefwef.app, which you can install as a PWA.
I’m properly sad about this whole ordeal. I praised, suggested, and even defended Reddit to anyone I know because I felt we aligned in the spirit of community. That Reddit died today.
And this is my first post on Lemmy
Welcome! I’m a now former 16yrs at Reddit transplant myself.
Boost user here, excited for the Lemmy version!
Been using Boost for reddit, my most used android app. So happy that there will be a version for lemmy. Fuck reddit and long live lemmy.
