I’m here from Apollo. A very sad day but I look forward to what this may become.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Check out wefwef.app. It will feel familiar.
Can not stress this enough. It’s helping a lot with the move
Holy shit. That’s so cool. Thanks for sharing! Definitely gonna become my main way to browse Lenny for the moment
Wefwef +1. Same UI, feel right at home.
You van even export your Apollo data, and it will help you find similar communities to the subs you were following
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Sync user here. I guess I'm done with my reddit addiction starting today.
the fun part is that it just turns into a lemmy addiction :)
Hah lemmy get in on that good stuff
Liftoff for Lemmy feels similar so far while we wait for the Sync port.
Same. Sad day
Me too, it died mid browse for me, it was something else - right after I sent spez a FU DM too from Apollo.
there are already several different app options for lemmy in different states of development;
jerboa, memmy, mlem, wefwef, thunder, and several others i cant think of off top. Definitely try them all out cus there are differences for sure. My personal favorite right now is memmy followed by wefwef thunder and mlem.
Memmy for iOS currently being reviewed by Apple, should hit the App Store in a day or two. You can download the Test Flight now if you don’t want to wait.
Inspired by Apollo - and works amazingly with Lemmy. I’m using now.
Some other apps are out there in beta and being approved now. Mlem, Liftoff… it’s a good time to switch.
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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.
I agree... but this is probably the last big reddit thing for a while, so I think the reddit and lemmy stuff will die down from now
When I first joined during the Reddit protests, it was all meta talk. Then as of last week it was really starting to fill with actual content, but now with the API shutting down I expect it will be a lot of meta talk again for a bit.
Agree, but it'll die down. The whole reason that 90% of the people are here is because of reddit so it'll stay news for a bit.
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rip rif
Rif was my app. I shall miss it, but Lemmy makes it better.
But fuck reddit and spez. For profit sucks.
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RIP Apollo
Was very sad to have to hit the delete button on Apollo, but now Memmy is in its place.
I'll be keeping Apollo around purely for nostalgia, it'll always have its place in app heaven on my phone.
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. ;) )
Infinity is going to move forward with a premium account system, they basically just funnel money into Reddit for no good reason.
Access to the free Infinity should go away soon.
Currently you can type libreddit.hu/r/ in front of any subreddit and avoid Reddit directly, not sure what's happening to that domain with the changes.
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.
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I’m here from Apollo..
Damn. What a loss.
Check out https://wefwef.app/ Lemmy web app Apollo clone; it's fantastic. Install it as a PWA and enjoy.
I hope it provides you some relief from the tragedy
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Man what a bummer. Just deleted my 13 year old account.
I just went and posted on Reddit one last time; from Alien Blue. Said goodbye to Apollo devs.
It’s kinda weird to have just stopped posting somewhere where my account was 12 years old. Oh well, on to new things I guess!
16 years and I feel you.
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.
I’m actually sad about this, Apollo Is the only app I’ve really used every day since I got an iPhone.
Rest in peace.
I wonder if this will have any effect on Reddit's metrics? The blackout had almost no effect, and certainly no lasting effect. But this might.
Not that I care, though. Lemmy is active enough nowadays, and I'm pretty sure it's going to continue growing now.
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A sad, sad day. Here is to greener pastures with the fedeverse!
I'm here because baconreader died. Hi everyone!
I made the move a few weeks ago proactively. It's nice around here.
I noticed ReddPlanet was down today. Just checked it out of curiosity. Haven’t been on Reddit in a few weeks.
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.
RiF user here. RiP RiF
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.
Wife and I used rif and baconreader respectively. We jokingly held a moment of silence for what we will no longer have. But hey, maybe we'll start having real conversations again!
...at least until the communities here on Lemmy get interesting.
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