you left reddit because 3rd party apps were being killed off.
I left reddit because reddit sucks and I've been looking for an alternative for a long while now.
We are not the same.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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It's showerthoughts. not supposed to be taken entirely literally!
my post is in the format of a meme, it's not supposed to be taken seriously. but yeah it's pretty ironic.
my meme game is obviously severely lacking.
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i left because 3rd party apps were being killed off, I'm staying because this is a superior community
I left because the way they went about killing third party apps. Bad faith notification, shit communication, and slandering Christian.
Same, they could have easily bundled in third party apps as only something you can use with Reddit gold or something, and I would have happily done that.
I left because having that sort of person at the helm is just disconcerting.
I haven't deleted my account or anything, but after RIF Is Fun closes it's doors, I will likely be on Reddit very seldomly if at all. Most of my browsing of Reddit has been via RIF since 2015. The official app has always been a slow, glitchy, ad-riddled piece of shit. RIF was like using a mobile-friendly version of the old layout and was 1000% more stable. So instead of finding a way to integrate something similar into the official app and fixing their bloatware, they decide to kill third party apps altogether. You'd think EA owned Reddit by the way they're going about things these days.
No skin off my nose if Reddit ceases to function. The Reddit that exists today bares very little resemblance to the website I fell in love with 14 years ago.
Maybe the lack of third-party apps is the friends we made along the way?
True
People are not moving over here for convenience, it's new young software with many flaws and missing features. I think most of us are just looking for a brighter future of social networks, one not dictated by a megacorporation and instead segmented more under our individual control. It's impossible for this to match reddit in everything since that's a company with thousands of employees and a 10 year headstart, but perfect shouldn't be an enemy of good.
yup, i am here because third party apps or no, Reddit was just a horrible place to be anymore. i'm loving the 'wild wild west' of similar apps and a new social network i'd never experienced before.
I'm with you. Plus I really miss the pre-socmed days of the internet where it was just specialized forums. Being early at kbin kinda sorta maybe feels similar.
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To be fair, kbin on a mobile browser is already leagues above the official reddit app
I saw some roadkill on the way to work today that looked and functioned better than the official app.
I tried the official app an hour ago. Now I'm on Firefox mobile. This is accurate.
About the only thing that sucks is the comments being separated by page. Also, I don't seem to get notification when someone replies to a comment/post.
So the only thing lacking here is just the user numbers
I had that problem too but turns out I didn't turn on notifications in settings. Maybe tweaking that might help?
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To me, I loved using Relay for Reddit, but them killing the 3rd party apps in itself wasn't why I left. The whole situation just showed that Reddit doesn't care about the community, they just care about profit, and they'll happily shaft the users and prominent members of the community.
This, I was all going with the flow with the blackout (my 3rd party app in particular is apparently "in talks" so good chance won't get shut down), but after the AMA I just left. I spend time here and on tildes, fulfills my need to be social on the internet.
Hell, before the AMA I was willing to pay a sub to use an app on my phone, not anymore . . . after all the shit of the past decade I am just done, and I think there are thousands like me.
Even then, the way they went about getting that profit was so sleazy to me. I don't like it, but I get a company needing to make a profit. But there's ways of doing that where you can still put the community first.
Kmoon (3rd party app) is in development
edit: called Artemis now after a community vote
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tl;dr — fediverse will only improve from today, while Reddit will only decline.
I've used a third party app (Relay) for browsing Reddit for eight years now. It's what I'm used to, and interacting with the same content in a lesser format feels bad.
I've been using Kbin for eight days, and only know it from the mobile browser. Is it as pleasant to interact with as Relay was? No. But the difference is that it will only improve from here. My Reddit experience is primed only to get worse.
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kbin doesn't need a third party app because the website works great, and unlike reddit, isnt filled to the brim with ads and trackers
Seems like people aren't noticing that OP is on Kbin. FEDERATION!!!
I also find it interesting that lack of mod tools is a big complaint of reddit but it seems that lack of mod tools is immediately an issue on kbin/lemmy.
But the decisions made on one vs the other are moving in the opposite directions.
This is a new town, not a razed town.
I think mod tools will become a higher priority as more users, posts, and comments start to show up. Given kbin’s sudden explosive growth, I doubt mod support was high on the dev’s todo list last week.
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The real shower thought is that every instance's app/PWA is itself a 3rd party app to the Fediverse
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I never use an app, official or otherwise, for reddit. I left because I disagree with reddit's management and believe the changes will negatively impact modding. I also expect other changes I disagree with given IPO goals. They want users to use their new UI or official mobile app. They will likely try to clean up the site to make it more ad friendly at some point.
Unlike Reddit, there is no barrier to creating third party apps for this. Many of the problems that are softened by third party apps on Reddit, can be solved in the fediverse by communities and users setting up their own instances (with their own policies and customizations).
The thing is, this is a third party app. The platform we're on is the Fediverse, it's just third party apps. No, they don't provide the same thread-like experience that you get on kbin, but for now, there's not much a difference in simply browsing kbin instances from Mastodon apps or the similar. This isn't currently great for kbin.social with all the troubles federating, but explore your options!
He'll, I typically used the reddit app rather than 3rd party, but they're doing too much shady-ass shit, and have been for too long (mainly thinking of the mod situation and how a few mods control a vast amount of content without seemingly any oversight). It's weird over here, but it reminds me of when I joined reddit more than 10 years ago now, it's got that vibe, ya know?
I was in the Wild West of the internet once, I’ll be in the Wild West of the internet again.
The cycle continues once again.
We didn't just leave Reddit because of the apps in the end. They did a blackout for apps. I left mainly because I can't stand spez.
Spaz is a major tool.
Kbin have PWA tho
the fedivers will never be able to ban 3rd party apps - because everything is build on apis that are open. thats the true beauty.
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