I don't even remember buying premium for it it was so long ago and its been my go fo app forever. I miss it but I just have to remember spez killed it not the devs.
I already couldn’t imagine paying a subscription for an app, but for that money to be going to reddit after the shit they pulled is unthinkable. I’m surprised users even want to support it at all. I do wish them well though, as Narwhal served me well for years.
I never even heard of reddit when I was introduced to rif. Only reddit I know. I didn't really try others, didn't need to. It was perfectly simple. Thank you and now on to new and better things, hopefully
Been a Reddit is Fun good user for over a decade. Is by far been my most used app. Earlier editions had the little alien in the corner, and I have three phones with that logo burned into the screen. I really have been enjoying the growth of Lemmy/Fediverse, and it reminds me honestly of early Reddit. But still it's bittersweet losing RiF and how drastically the community of Reddit has changed over the last few months
I used PowerDeleteSuite which I've been told is a more privacy focused alternative and I found it really simple to use. Took a few minutes to nuke the account data. If you are replacing your comments it takes quite a bit longer though.
Also, anyone who wants to use this tools should probably do it before this months ends. These tools rely on the API to work.
Good explanations in your article! In case you may not already know there's a kbin app (later to work with lemmy as well) called Artemis in the works as well.
I wanted to like BR but it lacked so much. Android app was better then ios but i couldn't do basic things that made me reddit the way i wanted to reddit. plus the devs barely answered anything on the sub. Sad to see them go!
I really Lemmy and Kbin. Both provide solid desktop experiences and app development is only accelerating.
One thing in particular I am having a hard time with is discovering communities. I know there are a couple websites dedicated to this but discovery on both Lemmy and Kbin is not very easy. This becomes compounded by the fact that some communities have fractured across numerous communities or magazines. Referencing different communities/magazines is also was more annoying than doing /r/dancing or whatever.
I haven't had a problem ftmp. I sort by all>new/top day/hot/active and subscribe to what interests me on a whim.
Then if there is something specific, say poetry, I type "poetry" or "poet" in to the search and I get all the communities with that in the name. Subscribe. All of em.
Over time I naturally have a feed of my own making.
But right now, I am just sorting all and collecting communities and talking to people, and when finally there is more people, I will sort by subscribed.
I think the issue is just early stage social media being built ground up, and we're all still figuring out what this place is even gonna be.
This is what I am doing too and think it is the way to go.
You wouldn't catch me dead sorting by r/all on Reddit, but I have been doing so on kbin to just see what is out there and subbing to what is interesting. I also have been searching for various magazines/communities and subbing to a bunch of them since I don't know which one will take off. Eventually I have hope i'll have an active enough feed like I did on my homepage on Reddit, but I'm cool waiting it out and just seeing what sticks on the fediverse.
Give it time. People are obviously gonna want to talk about how bad the place they just left is in the short term; it'll die off as time goes on, flaring up occasionally when Reddit makes another blunder.
Yup, the same thing happened when we moved from Digg to reddit.
There were 2-3 weeks where the death of digg was every other thread but then it tapered off quickly.
That being said, I think this whole reddit fiasco will drag out longer.
It will never be a safe space as long as spez is around
period. Centralized systems like Reddit are inherently beholden to the views of the people who own the central hub. Even if the people at Reddit now were “cool”, eventually a piece of shit would end up in a position of power and compromise the site. As we have seen time and time again, both recently and throughout history, we cannot allow our systems to be contingent on the assumed goodwill of the people who run it. Said differently, we need to assume that bastards will take control at some point in the future, and intentionally design our systems to be robust in the face of disturbances caused by bad actors.
Fairly incredible to me how many people over there are frothing to be the small pool of users that Reddit holds up as the token representation of 3rd party app users that they didn't kick off the platform which totally means they actually were willing to work with app makers after all. 🤞
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