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.

  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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?

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    1 year ago

    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!

    • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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

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        1 year ago

        I tried out the official app yesterday. Uninstalled after 10 minutes. scrolling was terrible. It felt really laggy even after some changes. If RIF isn’t available, I’m never going back. 10years 6months. Bye reddit

  • Icebound_Woof@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    I’ll never use Reddit’s shitty app. I used RiF for over 11 years, and I’ll be damned if I’ll be forced to do it their way. I hope it burns.

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      1 year ago

      I just had my 8th cakeday last week. I was using Baconreader and now it’s gone I feel an irrational loss. Ah well.

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      1 year ago

      Same. Apollo was Reddit as far as I’m concerned. Too much valuable information on Reddit for me to stop using it entirely, but I won’t be on there regularly like I was with Apollo. The official Reddit app just isn’t as refined as Apollo was.

    • Matt@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.