The official reddit app is not even supported on my device.
The official reddit app is not even supported on my device.
Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.
Honestly Reddit doesn't infuriate me anymore. I haven't been on reddit for 2 weeks now and I no longer feel the urge to check that site. I expect I'll still end up there occasionally when I search for stuff, but gone are the days when I spend an hour or two every night on reddit.
Why would I go on bad lemmy?
That’s actually been my experience as well lol.
I did actually deliberately jump on reddit on desktop recently, just to check on a few things and see how the protests were going.
There wasn’t really anything informative on the front page that hadn’t already been posted here. The quality of posts actually seemed worse overall
I opened Reddit, saw no bean posts so I immediately closed it.
Same for me. When RIF stopped working I went into Lemmy and haven't went on Reddit since. The FOMO I thought I'd get isn't there because I'm active and welcome here. I have people to connect with, and that's what I really only wanted out of a social site like this.
There's still quite a few subreddits I miss. Plus the larger community. Some communities are here, but they're dead with no users, and I don't really have what to contribute.
I wanted to try listing all of them, but I realized there's like 40 of them.
Mostly, I miss r/batteries, r/ElectroBOOM, r/linuxmint, r/ManjaroLinux, r/LinuxMasterrace, r/SpaceXMasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/computers, r/laptops, r/amateursatellites, r/whatisthisthing and r/RTLSDR which also had cool people like developer of noaa-apt and Ryzerth, the developer of SDR++, plus many more.
Edit: Oh, how could I forget dereksgc, another cool guy who puts out lots of useful info.Things will slowly grow if we all stick with Lemmy though. It's really just a matter of time until it reaches a critical mass.
Yes that's the only thing I would miss from Reddit. The wealth of knowledge that lives on their servers and the community until they more over here
It’ll come with time.
I can leave the larger community, but I do miss a couple subreddits.
The good thing about the Reddit before the dark times of 3 weeks ago, was that it had a large enough user graph that there were enough people with niche interests to have an active community. Facebook also has this critical user graph.
The good thing about ActivityPub based communities is that there is the potential to have much larger federated user graphs than the individual closed business-based platforms.
I still get a little heartbroken seeing the Apollo icon on my dock. 😭
I couldn’t bring myself to uninstall it completely so I just removed it from my Home Screen, it can live out its retirement in the app library
The only sub I go to now is my local city's subreddit for a good stream of local news and happenings. That hasn't migrated to Lemmy yet and I don't want to moderate it so I'm not making it here lol
Can we please stop with all the posts about reddit? Jesus christ you guys it's a website, not your crazy ex. Lemmy is never going to surpass reddit in popularity when the only thing on the frontpage besides beans is "reddit this, reddit that".
You sound mildly infuriated.
He should make a post about it!
Honestly, I'm really trying to like Lemmy. I feel like none of the good communities came over here, just the one's you mindlessly scroll through. I just looked for a fitness community yesterday and the one i found had like 5 posts. There is basically no communities for any of my hobbies. It seems like most people stayed on Reddit, except for the techy people. It's a shame because I really want to support the idea of federation and I do like the website.
Be the change you want to see. There are probably other people looking for those coversations, but see low engagement and move on. The more you post the more attractive it makes the community for other people.
I have also found that even if there are fewer comments, other people tend to respond and have more discussions.
I do have alot of hope that well see the community continue to grow & hopefully more activity as people search out reddit alternatives.
The endless scrolling communities are the easiest to move. They're low hanging fruit. One of the other replies to you here nailed it... without a massive community of millions, the future of Lemmy rests on the more modestly sized community here willing to actually come out of their lurk and not just respond to posts, but to start posts on their own and actually drive the content.
I feel the same way about music production-related communities here. I just don't have much to ask and I suck pretty badly at it so I don't feel like I'm good enough to drive content/discussions lol
Which fitness subreddits need growth? I have arrived.
The only real community I saw that migrated was r/piracy. Otherwise, I've experienced basically the same thing you have.
Even from 3 weeks ago, this place has grown hand over fist. Just give it a few more weeks and it'll be pretty much new Reddit.
It's less than a week after the largest website in the world shit the bed. It's still topical.
sad bean noises
It's an online community that people have been using for decades. The fact that many of us can't use it anymore is a real issue, even if it isn't relevant to you (believe it or not).
I can for sure see both sides of this one. I had ditched all other social media years ago, and baconreader was my one guilty pleasure.
If I had my phone in my hand, I was catching up with other old skaters like myself, reading about the latest trends in tech, or browsing the daily news.
The tag line of "Front page of the internet" was quite literally true for me. That was the portal through which I found content.
In the weeks leading up to the June 30th, I felt a strong sadness, what was I going to do with my screen time? I had created a very custom space using baconreader that neither the reddit app, or to be fair, Lemmy, could provide.
While I am really enjoying learning about Lemmy, and I feel the quality of the post and comments here are far better, it's going to take time to find and/or develop those niche communities again.
I do however agree, and the ex analogy is spot on, that the last thing I want is for this community to just be a bitch fest about what once was.
Give people a bit of time to vent, it hasn't even been a week since a decades long experience came crashing to a halt through no fault of ours.
It certainly is crazy, and some people spent more time there than with the grilfriend they never had, so...
Ouch
Agreed. I saw your post and reddit.
It's a huge [email protected] to karma farm about the downfall of reddit
Well, karma for all, then.
Can we all just leave the Reddit chatter to the Reddit or Redditmigration communities at this point please? If not yet, then maybe soon? This ex-partner behavior is just going to turn off new people from joining in the long run.
Yes! It seems that half the community posts on here are just Reddit-bashing and that isn't going to drive engagement at all.
What is that app possibly made of that it cant run on literally anything? It's just an app for text and images. I dont get it, is it optimized like an actual potato?
is it optimized like an actual potato?
Back when it was still in beta, it went through a period where it drained my battery from 100% to dead in under 30 minutes.
Just by being installed, not even actually using it.
Facebook still does this to me. I log in via Web app now.
Could be a library or feature that the devs didn't consider worth maintaining on older devices.
For context, the OP appears to be using Android 5 or 5.1, released in 2014/2015 respectively and is used on 1.1-1.3% devices worldwide.
What a stupid anti-human shit, I hate it. All my devices from 10 years ago are still perfectly fine and operational, and I can't use them because of some people's laziness. They are used on 1% devices not because they are necessarily bad or broken but because it's impossible to use them now for arbitrary reasons.
Probably the same team that used to make the Snapchat Android app back in the day
What makes it even more ridiculous is that it was originally a perfectly functional 3rd party app that they bought out. AlienBlue worked on ipads. A decade ago.
Consider it a blessing.
A blessing, a blessing from the Lord!
And there was much rejoicing.
You're not missing much
Great news.
I only ever used Reddit in Firefox on desktop anyway - but now I use it a whole lot less (maybe just one reply per day trolling people with interesting posts they'd be better posting here).
Lemmy is a shit-show... but it's OUR shit-show and we'll adjust, and clever people will develop.
Right on man. My last comment on R3dd!t told people the amount of time they spent figuring out how to still use 3rd party apps, they can direct that effort into learning how to participate in the Fediverse. Got a hundred-ish downvotes so that means a hundred people now know Lemmy exists.
MY shit-show ya commie bastard. NEXT.
you mean poop-show
What is this redit you are talking about? I don't know what that is.
never knew her
reddit the web, being ghosted by previous redditor
Well now how are you going to see all those ads?
They detected that you must be too poor to be worth supporting. It's simple economics. They needed to be able to balance out the incredible infrastructure costs you were bound to incur.
Boost and infinity still work, but not for long
Edit: Mixed up sync and infinity lol
No they don't? They haven't worked since july 1st.
Boost never stopped working. Sync did, but you can get past it with revanced at least until they break it.
I had trouble with sync so I uninstalled and came to lemmy
It still possibly work if you use your own api client id (less than 100 calls/min should be free irrc) but it needs patch from revanced.
If you look in their respective sub reddits, you'll see reports that they do still work for some.
Relay too
RIF also still works if you're not logged in
Probably for the best.
I may use Reddit through the browser on occasion while googling (but without logging in). My Reddit activity has dropped 99%. The 1% is lurking the World News thread to follow Ukraine war updates while logged out.
Exactly what I’m doing. That and the UkraineConflict subreddit. Have to use old subdomain to get in without logging in. I won’t comment anymore.
Did you think they cared about accessibility?
You're not missing out on anything...
You dodged a bullet homie.
No xprivacy or adblockers allowed you filthy hacker now go watch 2 hours of ads on YouTube to support people with billions of times more money than you.
I'm gonna miss Joey, spent a lot of time scrolling. I'm still using it for now until the API changes kick in, then I'm probably gone from Reddit for good after I sort through the saved content that I actually care about.
holy fuck, Android 8? My Android phone is only just compatible (8.0)
they'll call you a POS for not being part of the pc master race
pc master race is hilarious, informative, and outright unhinged.
Nah, more like they call you a POS for not buying into the latest and greatest corporate need to sell you the newest hardware at top dollar - I think the last time I saw a tablet for sale it was about $1100 or something stupid like that.
Even the PCMR community understands there are times a computer is overkill. You gonna lug your desktop around in your pocket for daily communication? Set up your laptop on a TV tray in from of your recliner? No, there are literal devices meant for both those situations.
How is it infuriating? We came to lemmy and kbin to get away from Reddit ?
Reddit app is the only app on my phone that doesn't like Samsung's multitasking and the good lock taskbar for the folds. It crashes the entire systemui sometimes if I try to open it from the task bar, and it breaks multitasking until a reboot sometimes if I try to set it next to another app that's open. Even if it "works" and I resize it it picks some arbitrary post I commented on some earlier time the app was open to fling itself back to maing me lose whatever I was doing before.
LMFAO that's special
You're probably better off.
On a more serious note, your tablet might just be too old. Reddit's official app requires Android 8.0+, while Joey only requires on Android 5.0. So that might be the reason why.
more like c/mildlyRelieved
What's your device?
Looks like an old samsung tablet running Android 5 or 6
Kiwi + Ublock + RES + old.reddit.com
good reason to ween yourself off reddit and help build up lemmy by doing what you were going to do
I'm on LineageOS sans gapps, so not even Google Play available. If it's not open source, it's not there.
Maybe you can use an earlier version?
I’ll bet Reddit would allow a 3rd party client that supported ONLY old phones / OSes that they themselves have decided to drop.
I'll bet they wouldn't.
I would bet against that, not enough userbase to be worth them even concidering the exception.
They wouldn’t do it to retain the small audience. They would do it so they could safely deprecate even more old devices. It makes life easier on the app engineers when they can focus on fewer devices and OSes. Less testing. You can use more modern libraries without a bunch of “if” forks. Sometimes the oldest 2% of your users can represent 15% of your effort. But 2% of users is a lot to drop.
That’s where the 3rd party app would come in. It would quiet complaints and allow content contributors to be retained, without any maintenance. Basically it would de-risk some moves like only supporting phones from the last 4 years, and nothing older.
This is like 15 steps beyond shooting yourself in the foot.
Well, the official Lemmy App also requires Android 8+. Again, no support for my not so old phone...
did you look if there is lineageOS or another custom ROM, who is based on a newer android?
Yes, but Lemmy block unofficial apps that may support your phone.