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Mabuhay at maligayang pag-alis sa Lemmy! ✈️


An abandoned community for the Philippines and all things Filipino! πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­


Started out as a Reddit alternative during the blackout from Jun 12-21, 2023 with over 1k members in just a few days. Fizzled faster than the "I Didn't Do It" kid after a month until it became the internet's Centralia in less than a year.

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Me: I never use official reddit app ever since I procure my phone 2 years ago, Using infinity is my first choice in browsing reddit in mobile, stealth is the second but I love infinity that I go back using it, in desktop I use teddit.net but if I want to post I use the official website on Firefox with uBlock Origin to deter the ads and trackers, now I'll never go back on reddit if their decision is final to charge developers for their API, because Infinity, Stealth and Teddit devs probably will shutdown as they are only solo/small teams that just want to make the digital world a better place they can't pay for api donating to them will only do good for a short time as the API is fucking expensive and breaks the rule of FOSS philosophy

this excludes Apollo and other Close Source software that uses reddit's api though as I never use it so I can't say things about them

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naghahanap ako ng gustong makipagsuntukan sakin sa Ace hardware.

[–] Henry 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sige pre. Kumpleto na Vax at boosters mo?

[–] Henry 5 points 1 year ago

sparring... sa chess

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I made an account here already just in case the subreddits I'm subscribed to permanently makes their subreddit on private, or their mods get replaced. I know r/twosentencehorror is going dark indefinitely, and a couple of other mods from other subreddits has said that they won't go back on public by June 14 if nothing changes.

I primarily use reddit on PC (old reddit + RES + uBlock Origin specifically), so I don't think the whole API thing would really affect me directly, but it will affect a lot of mods and other users. I really hope people don't just forget about this whole thing after a week.

And also, that whole AMA was a clusterfuck lmao. spez only responded to 14 questions, and the other 3 only responded 2-3 each. Most, if not all, weren't even answers. spez was doubling down on the whole "Apollo dev lying/tried to blackmail us" thing too. Yikes.

[–] Henry 7 points 1 year ago

r/Videos mod/mods subreddit will shutdown on June 11th and will remain shut until reddit changes decision which is a huge blow to the platform and if they get replace they're planning to migrate to Tilde

[–] Devgard 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love Sync for Reddit and the way Reddit is going doesn't look good.

Plus, their CEO is definitely not the best choice πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

[–] decadentrebel 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, he was a dick on the AMA earlier.

The good news is they have no plans of shelving old.reddit daw.

[–] Devgard 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do hope the questionable stances on human rights that the devs of Lemmy have won't be a problem in the future though 😐

[–] putangina 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ootl, anong meron sa lemmy devs?

[–] Devgard 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://aus.social/@sirsean/110519608027148891

I think this sums it up, also love the username 🀣

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naiirita ako pag nakaka kita ako ng ads. Dibale na sana kung nakakatawa or informative. Pero hindi, puro scam pa yun ads na lumalabas.

Tapos pansin ko dumadami na rin yun followers ko na may only fans. Mga bots ata yun.

[–] clock_age 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

okay lang di naman sana may ads sa reddit, kasi yun lang naman mostly ang source of income ng mga free sites eh

pero itong ginagawa ng reddit eh kupal talaga. they want to shut down 3rd party apps but

  • Denies they want to shutdown the 3rd party apps
  • Hurls false accusations against 3rd party app developers
  • Charges rates that are incredibly unreasonable

Nakakabuwisit lang talaga kasi reddit is my favorite website and it sucks that established communities will have to be rebuilt dahil sa kagaguhan nila

[–] Henry 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a pro privacy and piracy I'm strictly against ads bat eto namang lemmy donation based lang nabubuhay naman atsaka yung jerboa na gawa mismo din nang gumawa ng lemmy nanghihingi siya ng donation pag unang bukas lang hindi na uulit-ulit pa di gaya ng ads na segu-segundo meron nanaman

[–] SnowMeowXP 7 points 1 year ago

I use Sync and Apollo. I’m normally a lurker, but I want to leave reddit after seeing how the 3rd part app developers were treated.

[–] megane_kun 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use RIF on mobile, and on the desktop, RES and old.reddit.com. Would have been blissfully unaware of this shitstorm had not for an announcement not just from RIF, but also from RES about their impending demise.

I looked around to find alternatives, but since the ideals of the Fediverse appealed to me, and that I've already had a Mastodon account, I gravitated towards Lemmy.

To be fair, however, this is a pretty promising alternative (ignoring the political leanings of the devs and all).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know even RES is due next in the chopping block. RIP RES

[–] megane_kun 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hindi na rin naman talaga under active development ang RES even before pa nung API price hike, so it was just a matter of time.

However, sa pagkakaala-ala ko sa announcement galing sa RES, affected rin sila ng API price spike. So, ayun, imbes na mamatay na lang sa kantandaan….


EDIT:

Lagay ko lang yung links dito sa mga announcements na ginawa ng RES

TL;DR: It's not quite dead, but the writing is on the wall.


Edit 2:

Edited Reddit links.

[–] wabafee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nandito yong favorite subreddit ko or community na ba tawag dito. I was in lemmy.ml kasi akala ko yong c/Philippines don ay equivalent sub sa r/Philippines then na realize ko na napaka left leaning in general. Then nakita ko recommendation sa post sa reddit ayan nan dito na ako.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So pulitika pa rin hanggang dito? Hindi ba parang nakakapagod na?

[–] wabafee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Normal lang may politika hindi yan mawawala. Unless wala ng tao. Especially sa community na to. Di lang ako support sa views nor yung rules nung community at yung lemmy.ml. tldr Marxist Lennist pala meaning non ml domain nila. If hindi allowed maka rebuke yong ibang side di yan democrasya kundi diktatoryal.

[–] conyxbrown 4 points 1 year ago

Started using Apollo for Reddit when I shifted to iPhone. I noticed na grabe makadrain ng battery ko yung OG Reddit app kaya nagApollo ako. When I tried using the OG app again napansin ko na napakakalat nga pala ng OG, nakakadistract.

[–] TheLastManetheren 4 points 1 year ago

Same as others

[–] deaththekid00 4 points 1 year ago

It seems that I don't have a life and I can't live without this group lol.

I also use Infinity for Reddit on my phone and use Firefox with uBlock Origin when browsing on my PC. I am still open to just use the web version. Firefox Mobile has uBlock Origin too.

[–] breasTiE 3 points 1 year ago

gg kasi sa reddit, boost pa naman ginagamit ko pwede kasi magdownload ng videos nang di tinatatawag si savevideobot

[–] PancitCantot 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reddit fucked their mobile web, even using uBlock on my Firefox Mobile. They forced us to use their bloatware, intrusive app.

Even their redesigned Reddit desktop web is fucked. I was hoped new Redditors never experience these bullshitteries, but unfortunately spez (fuck u/) is unstoppable, and he can lie (watch out old.reddit shutdown)

[–] Henry 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox mobile is slow af, reddit is faster in brave mobile though if you want to use it on mobile

[–] PancitCantot 2 points 1 year ago

Chromium and Firefox mobile browsers are equally the same, atleast on my mid-range Android device. I've been using Firefox both PC and mobile since 2016 pa, and yes, before it was shite. Seeing it improving over the years is really telling.