- cross-posted to:
- privacyguides@lemmy.one
- cross-posted to:
- privacyguides@lemmy.one
…to keep running as is.
creator of Apollo, a popular Reddit client for iOS, relays his talks with Reddit about upcoming ridiculous API pricing.
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Hello from ex reddit user
Exactly what brought me over
Once they nuke third party apps I’m gonna start using it on desktop exclusively, but I’m not even sure if I’ll be able to do that for long, I feel like old reddit is on it’s way out too.
But… but… they said they’d never kill old.reddit.
/s
I setup my own instance for this reason. Hope Lemmy gains much more traction when the “We’re totally not banning third-party apps” goes into effect.
The subreddit for https://www.privacyguides.org just created a community and their own instance, you can find it on @privacyguides@lemmy.one if you wanna join and talk privacy stuff.
I decided to finally get rid of Reddit over this.
Basically they are killing third-part clients, like Twitter did.
but it also feels about 3.64x more scummy, given that 1. they haven’t had an official client for YEARS, which allowed the third party client landscape to thrive, and then purchased one of the most successful iOS clients in order to turn it into the official one.
Absolutely insane that they’re tanking their 3rd party apps like this. Their 1st party apps is so bad. Big shout out to the (mods? Admin? Owners?) Of beehaw for being being on their game for accepting new users like me quickly today.
Oh look yet another new user! I’m also surprised on how fast I was accepted today.
On-topic: the sad part is that it’s a sensible move for their goals (profit maximisation). It’s simply cheaper to get rid of better competitors than make your own software better.
Can’t maximize profits if enough people jump ship. I dunno if that’ll happen though, if this ends up being a Digg moment for the larger Reddit community.
I hope that this becomes a Digg moment, but I don’t think that it will - odds are that they already predicted that some users will leave, and the amount of users leaving will be still small enough to make the move profitable.
This is it for me for mobile Reddit. I also cancelled my Gold subscription, and likely will step down as mod for a tiny sub i mod, not gonna give them any more free work. And if (when!) they remove Old Reddit i’ll leave the site for good. Too bad Lemmy is still in very early stages (very similar to Reddit in it’s first years in fact), or it’d be THE alternative. Hopefully many people will join in.
Too bad Lemmy is still in very early stages…
Lemmy is only one platform on the Fediverse which is enormous.
the Fediverse which is enormous.
Is it really? I mean, compared to reddit, how many users does the Fediverse have?
You’re technically correct, but go to any of the various “This is the Fediverse”, “Join Fediverse” and the like, and many, many times you won’t even see them acknowledge the existence of Lemmy, happened to me when i decided to jump in last month. Compare amounts of people, Mastodon instances can number in the thousands while the best you get here is dozens, maybe low hundreds. Lemmy is tiny, and it’s focus on communities isolates it further from the rest of the Fediverse, the federation doesn’t help in the slightest, open Lemmy and all you see is the same dozen posts for days, you don’t see on Lemmy posts from the rest of Fediverse because they just don’t apply. This is fine, lemme emphasize, but it’s early stages and it’s undeniable.
Plus maybe it’s just me but when I open lemmy, I don’t want to see the rest of the fediverse. Lemmy serves a very different purpose from mastodon or plemora.
It’s one thing I never understood about the fediverse. These platforms are separate on the normal web for a reason.
This post is what motivated me to move to Lemmy/Beehaw
Guess I’m done with reddit then it seems…
Same here. Guess I’ll learn to love alternatives.
Lemmy has gained another Reddit refugee!
And another one here. I’m wrapping my head around all the different servers and trying to connect it all in my head. So on paper I guess I only need to register to a single instance, then somehow can post / read from other communities on beehaw.org right?
Yes I have my account on feddit.de but mostly post to communities of other servers. I also follow/join nearly all communities that I can find on lemmy xD
Yep. For example, I’m on the developer-run Lemmy instance, but I can see and interact with the communities on Beehaw.org just fine.
The main difference is moderation styles (Beehaw has more strict moderation) as well as what they federate with. Beehaw doesn’t federate with certain communities, so those communities don’t show up when you look at “All”.
I came to Reddit after Digg turned shit. It was fun while it lasted.
I think that was so long ago, that many folks think that Reddit is some untouchable entity. They have no idea how huge Digg was and how amazingly fast people left it.
Pepperidge Farm remembers. And me, because i’m old. Lemmy reminds me of early reddit, all of those years ago.
@noodlejetski For all the new people coming in, a fun thing about the Fediverse is that you can actually grab content from more platforms than just Lemmy if you feel so inclined. I, for instance, am commenting on this thread from Mastodon. I subscribe to users on PixelFed (decentralized Instagram + Flickr), Mastodon (decentralized Twitter kind of), Calckey (like Mastodon but with a different feature set), and Lemmy of course. So just keep in mind that that if you find yourself wanting more types of content, unlike silo’d corporate social media, you do have the option to explore the rest of the Fediverse ecosystem and have the content there show up in your feed. Mastodon alone has like 2.1 million monthly active users.
I’m interested in figuring this out myself. I’ve been using Masto since November, and keep hearing about the interoperability of the Fediverse, but have yet to be able to work out how it actually works in practice. Like, how are you commenting on this from Mastodon, because I just searched for Beehaw from there, and it just brought me to this page and wouldn’t show me anything first.
@DJDarren On Mastodon, search for “@ technology @ beehaw.org” (no spaces) and you’ll be able to see the posts from there.
Of course, since Mastodon is a Twitter-esque platform and Beehaw is a Reddit-esque platform, the layout on Mastodon isn’t ideal. But it is workable.
