It actually happened.
  • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    I hope we get better content. I’m really tired of all the posts on the frontpage being meta. Like i had to scroll to find anything about the student loan news. I go to reddit and boom I get actual content still.

    … i want conversations about things that aren’t lemmy or reddit. … memes are cool but man most of the frontpage that isn’t meta is memes. … Fingers crossed it gets better soon.

    • plum@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I joined Lemmy during the blackout. Obviously it was crazy for a few days, but the last week and a half has been news, memes, and real conversations. Really enjoying it here so far!

  • TGQP@vlemmy.netEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is so short sighted by the Reddit C suite. It makes literally no sense for them to kill these apps when every argument they made for killing them was in bad faith.

  • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was still using Slide, I was hoping it was under the radar enough that it would squeak by but nope. Goodbye Reddit. I was user 4163 16 years ago, and now it’s time to get the fediverse up and going.

  • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve now been tricked twice into breaking my Reddit boycott just to check and see if Infinity still works or not, and it still does.

    Maybe Infinity just has enough fewer users than something like Apollo that Infinity hasn’t reached the request limit to where it’s been shut off yet.

    (I don’t actually mean I was tricked. ;) )

    • bruz@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      iirc infinity will stop working on 7/1 as well. possibly switching to a subscription model with price tbd

      • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I meant that I loaded up Infinity specifically to check and see if Infinity still worked or not. Not to access any particular Reddit content. But Infinity still worked for me after I first saw this thread.

        Edit: Ah, and I just realized I might have misunderstood you, not the other way around. Sorry about that.

    • bzbb@vlemmy.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      From what i heard recently, infinity is going to be subscribtion based from now on… so probably devs didnt stop app from working but are yet to implement subsciption

      • TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Interesting. I’m not sure how that works with an Open Source app. Will the API key be in the source repo? Will there be a server that Infinity routes through that adds the API key to the request? Will future versions of Infinity be proprietary? I’ll probably look into it at some point.

  • leosin@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Boost is currently up, but they announced they’d be shutting down by tomorrow anyways. At least Lemmy / Kbin seem to be decent replacements so far. Here’s hoping they continue to fill with lots of new interesting discussions and then I’ll be done with Reddit for good.

  • nogreens@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Been a redditor since 2010, RiF user from about 2015 on, then Apollo user since 2020. There’s a few work related subs I’ll still visit occasionally on a web browser (using old.reddit of course) but other than that I’m officially done.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      A few apps that have a smaller amount of users have been granted a delay in which they can set up a subscription scheme.

      We don’t know yet what the subscription cost is going to be and whether the whole thing will be sustainable. It’s not clear to me for example what will happen if the users/traffic for these apps eventually rises (which is bound to happen if they’re the only ones left standing). Or why a deal couldn’t be reached with the large apps too.

      Not to mention the whole sour taste, a couple months ago if Reddit had come out and said “we’re putting all ‘power user’ stuff behind a paywall, pay a sub directly to us to help us out” I would’ve seriously considered it. Now, not so much.