Basically, title, here is a link to the Reddit thread for people curious: https://archive.ph/6mObB
I’m quite surprised with the neutral to positive reactions, which also show that some people will probably never leave Reddit.
I vowed to be done with it when it became subscription based, and now here I am. Kind of glad actually, been looking for an excuse for years as the site became more and more stale, unoriginal, and politics began to overwhelm everything. Maybe this is just how it has to be every decade or so.
Don’t kid yourself there’s A LOT of Reddit here on Lemmy.
I mean, given that the user base here was mostly looking for an alternative to Reddit, that makes sense.
I think I was hoping that some of the users that gave Reddit its grimy reputation would have stayed there. But that’s probably a little too pie in the sky.
Same. Trying Boost and Jerboa, but they look almost identical.
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I signed up here a while ago but continued using reddit because Relay still worked. Now it’s asking for money and there’s no chance in hell I’ll give even a cent to spez.
Yep. I kept using Reddit with relay but now I’m going to use it so much less. The official app is garbage and I will never pay a monthly subscription to use Reddit
Former Relay user here.
Willing to bet the comments in that thread are positive because survivorship bias, at least in part. Folks like me who deleted the app probably wouldn’t have commented, after all. I’m also sure I wasn’t the only one to see the subscription prompt come up and just delete the app.
knew it was coming and decided ahead of time that when I was forced to pay, I’d just delete the app.
I did the exact same thing, but I gotta say even in the months leading up to the subscription the quality and traffic in my subs had diminished to almost nothing, there were so many subs that were already gone or inaccessible from mobile. There was a time when I think I would’ve been ok with paying $2-3/month for the previous content but never in the current state.
I totally agree. I wasn’t decided on quitting Reddit just because of the 3rd party apps fiasco, but the overall quality of the content took a nosedive which only further reinforced my decision to uninstall Relay once the subs finally came.
At a cost of free it was still like of worth checking out but not if I have to pay.
Makes sense!
LMFAO, paying money to be shit on, incredible.
Imagine paying for mobile access to nazi digg.
Same with Narwhal. They released some days ago their 2.0 App and already mentioned that in a couple of weeks the payment will start. The crazy part (besides the astronomical price) is that you pay for each API request. So every time you upvote, you make an API request and have to pay for it. YOU, the user, gonna pay for GIVING Reddit your engagement. That is crazy. Every Social Media plattform is trying too squeeze out as much engagement as possible from their userbase and now the user has to pay for it too. At this point, the best thing would be to deactive your your up/downvote buttons and comment buttons, to ease on the API requests. The the exact contrary of what the plattforms wants you for. I deleted the App after a decade of usage the same day. Reddit got everything from me. Engagement, Comments and my whole leaning on political and cultural topics based on my votes and comments to build a profile. Now they get nothing out of me. Fuck you Spez.
Multiple years of Relay Pro and last night was upted with the monthly paid option which I am strongly not into. Uninstalled as soon as it showed up and downloaded Boost for Lemmy, so far so good. Few issues here and there but nothing major
Check out lemmy sync as well! Excellent app. Also don’t tell anyone but if you use the “list” display mode (instead of cards as default) on the free version, it doesn’t show any ads.
Holy shit the post density… you might’ve just made me switch from Connect
I use Connect, it’s completely open source, no tracker no ads etc… stable and easy to use.
Yup same. Although I could do with the silver subscription at € 2,29 a month, I still skipped it and moved on to the one-time paid Boost for Lemmy. Feel sorry for dBrady though. He put a lot of effort into making the best Reddit app imo and now he’s forced to charge his users and hand over 90% to those greedy a-holes.
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Nearly the same story here. I saw the ads in boost and decided to switch to liftoff. Maybe the paid version of boost is better. There’s no way I’ll pay for a monthly subscription.
I have tried a few and Connect is my favoriyso far.
$5 a month to spend your time with the neck beards and power tripping mods? 🤢
At least on this side most people here aren’t addicted to social media imo
It wasn’t until I started having conversations on reddit in something I was an actual expert in they I realised most people on reddit have very strong opinions but not much actually knowledge on the subject.
Hopefully less bots and fluff here and more quality content. All I know is after 10+ years on reddit its the end of an era. It was slow when reddit started, and I expect things to be a bit slower here for a bit.
I’ve been on Reddit pretty much every day in the past five years. The one thing that I’ve noticed over the years is that the amount of reposts has skyrocketed over the years. I’ve left multiple large subs because it’s the same thing across multiple subs or just general shitposting. Nostalgia, 90s, and FuckImOld all just became “Who remembers this?” with a picture of a common thing.
It’s going to get a lot worse with the recent pay to post scheme they copied from Twitter 🥴
Everything eventually meets it’s demise.
There were many small subs with genuinely knowledgeable people but many have shut down after the API change.
In a few years it will be 9.99$, then 19.99$, 32.99$ ect. Congratulations to those who power capitalism
As a conservative (by Danish standards, in the US I would probably be centrist and probably vote for the Democrats) I would say that capitalism doesn’t work well for every case in a society. In the olden days, people would meet in the town square and use the village posters.
Those local communities has largely been replaced by the internet today, and whereas the old communities was run by itself with its people taking ownership and responsibility for it with the incentive to make the community as good as possible, today the communities are largely owned by companies with a profit drive. In these new communities the incentive for the owner (the company) is not to create the best possible community, but to extract the most money from it.
I would say that pure capitalism would be to the detriment to a society. Capitalism is more a product of liberalism (where I am not using the definition of liberalism that most Americans would, but the “correct” definition) than it is a product of conservatism.
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Hey man I’ve met crack heads who are more reasonably sound than redditors
This Relay user no longer does. Bye Relay… bye Reddit
I got shouted down pretty intensely when relay announced they’d be doing this, and I mentioned it’d been a good run but I was jumping ship, especially vitriolic against the mention of lemmy lol
i’d used relay for a decade, was a bit sad
Same. Bought pro the day it released. Was a great interface but once Reddit announced they were digging out, I settled into Lemmy.
I was a Relay user. Now I use Connect for Lemmy. 🤷♂️
Connect is the closest I’ve found to Relay’s functionality and look
I wish dbrady would make a fediverse app. I love Relay’s GUI.
Just the fucking freshness and clean colours made me use it
Based on my usage I’d have to get one of the higher tier of plans. I’m not entirely against paying in theory, but when reddit actively protected subreddits that spread hate speech and misinformation? No I’m not paying.
Subreddits spreading hate and misinformation? I thought they removed the_donald. Were there others they weren’t getting removed? *Just remembered r/sino was pretty extreme.
It took them like 4 years and an attempt at ending US democracy for them to step in with the_Donald
Oh there’s definitely more hate subs. I forget which subreddit it was but someone used the k slur for jews and a user on AgainstHateSubreddits posted about how they reported the post to the admins and one of the admins replied that there was nothing wrong with the comment.
In Sync? Sync for reddit hasn’t worked for months.
I don’t know why I said Sync, I used Relay. I removed the first sentence.
Yeah, I kinda knew I was using g relay on borrowed time. Will be deleting it now, and maybe asking for my two dollars back somehow idk. I think a lot of the people that would have negative reactions already have got it out of their system and have accepted that reddit on mobile is a no go three months ago.
Why would you ask for your two bucks back? You got years of good service. Let the dev keeps his couple of bucks.
Because dBrady chose to remain with reddit and play their stupid game, instead of porting my favorite app to Lemmy. So fuck him.
There’s plenty of other good Lemmy apps, we’ll be fine.
Voyager is okay (and the only Lemmy app I like), but it’s still buggy and clunky as fuck compared to Relay.
