Wtf is on the things head?
I miss RiF sometimes :[
The writing was on the wall when reddit restricted buying awards in anything but the official app. For some reason, I even have a vivid recollection of where I was in the world when that went down.
Oh man, I’m jealous. I uninstalled the app, but I’m pretty sure you can look up workarounds to make the app still work if you have it on your phone.
I miss Apollo. Voyager is nearly as great and is open source so it’s not all bad. Still miss it though…
Yeah Voyager needs more polish. I have found Mlem to be more spiritual of the successor in terms of ui design.
Interesting. Just looked at Mlem for a minute and for some reason the Voyager UI agrees with me more.
The funny thing is Mlem offers higher contrast between different UI elements yet it is easier for me to differentiate between those elements in the lower contrast way that Voyager presents them.
Jerboa is similar enough in my head. Though, if I could time travel and get the 2023 experience then I might see that I’m misremembering.
I was hoping RiF’s dev would make an app for Lemmy. They did make one for Tildes though called three cheers for Tildes. I believe their username is talklittle.
Jerboa was real bad back then. Like, bad enough that I shelled out cash money to purchase Sync for Lemmy, which was another different old reddit front-end that now pivoted to Lemmy.
Overall though I’m now actually a big fan of Sync. It’s a good app. Does all that it needs to and not much more.
I’m lucky, Boost was my app of choice. Now I just use it for Lemmy instead.
apollo was so nice to use
I got great news for you!
Apollo exists for the fediverse!
Just look up „voyager“ app for iOS!
I currently just use the webapp (no difference to the app). To „install“ the webapp (iOS) just go to the website and create a shortcut on homescreen.
I love it and probably wouldn’t use lemmy without it!
Edit: I’m not affiliated
Edit2: source code on GitHub
Edit3: it should be available for Android too. Unintentionally made it seem like it’s iOS exclusive
Voyager because its a name of a thing and install because the Webapp is not really installed, it’s just a bookmark in safari that’s opened without the toolbars etc
These days if I wanna check reddit on my phone I just navigate to old.reddit on my phone’s browser.
I use Stealth for any niche groups over there that I still follow, and then if I really want to comment, I’ll login with old.reddit on my browser.
For iOS just use this safari extension and access it through the browser.
The experience itself is pretty good.
use rdx? https://overdevs.com/rdx
redlib is also a pretty good front end: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
safereddit.com is one i used from time to time. there’s a bunch of other instances, as well
You might appreciate Farside.link which catalogues all kinds of privacy-protecting front ends, and lets you bookmark a randomizer to automatically choose one for any service.
So, did Reddit lose a considerable amount of user base since then or not?
Not really. They’re sort of succeeding. They just became profitable, I think, for the first period ever.
Got more users on Lemmy though, including me, so that’s a win in my book.
Yes, Reddit is way more mainstream now than ever. My grandparents talk about it.
It’s occasionally mentioned in movies, series and animation.
Ngl, i was expecting many more people to leave Reddit. The outrage was almost palpable. Big subreddits going private and all.
From a statistics standpoint, definitely not.
As of Q4 of 2023, reddit claimed 36.4 million logged-in ‘daily active’ users. An increase from Q3 of 2023 with a count of 34.7 million. Not sure of the accuracy of user counts for lemmy, but good estimate is about 450,000 total users over it’s entire lifespan, if every single one of those was a reddit convert, we’d still be a minor blip. I don’t know if we have 2024 numbers that are comparable, but most stats indicate that reddit is likely still growing.
Spez predicted what would happen in that protest with almost 100% accuracy and most mods involved didn’t follow through and backed down. Some are trying to build something new and that’s worth pursuing but we lost that fight.
Lol, I blacked out my sub and then never returned. Not sure what happened to it, but reddit is so god awful I don’t even bother trying to check.
Oh it’s really simple. You will have been removed as a moderator for defacing Reddit content. Reddit will then ban you. Aunt reinstate their authority and make sure that their user base has full access to their content . Remember next time to not be a pesky little shit . How dare you try to block spaz and his followers from accessing content that you created but they own . /S Ask me how I know
I do have to wonder how many of those millions of users are bots. Browsing /r/all, you can find plenty of weird pseudopornographic subreddits like /r/ReallyGorgeous, which are populated by literally thousands of bots upvoting and commenting on fake selfies posted by the most obviously stolen accounts. Report these accounts all you want, the admins don’t care.
Probably a big number, but also probably not that many in terms of user count when compared to the overall count.
I don’t think we have good data on reddit, but a lot of fairly smart people have been trying to figure that out with twitter/x. Key you have to remember is that the average user only consumes content, they don’t contribute in any fashion. So, you can have 10 or so bot accounts being more visible than 10,000 ‘active’ users and still be posting things at a rate that would seem reasonable for an average human. They’ll just come across as a highly engaged user until someone looks closer.
Are you counting the 14 of us that came over to Lemmy and stayed considerable?
