the API changes occur tomorrow, gentlemen, it's been an honor (inb4 Lemmy completely crashes)

Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.

Hello Memmy 🫡

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You may have already seen this, but there is a web app for Lemmy that looks and functions very similar to Apollo:

https://wefwef.app/

I’ve been trying it today, and it’s pretty good.

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- Holy shit, the developer has put some serious work in. I didn’t know web apps could be that good. There’s some insane attention to detail going on here
  
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- Wow! It really does feel very similar to Apollo. It will undoubtedly make the transition easier.
  
  Thanks!
  
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  Incredible, and the dev keeps updating it like twice a day.
  
  I'm also running a copy alongside my instance, thelemmy.club at app.thelemmy.club
  
  I never was really fond of web apps but this is great.
  
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- Damn... I hadn't been paying attention and thought that was actually exclusively an iOS app when I'd seen it mentioned before... Looks interesting.
  
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- Wefwef feels like home. I was using Apollo for years and this feels very natural
  
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- Damn, that looks just like Apollo!
  
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- WTF! i been on lemmy for 2 weeks and this is my first time seeing this! Thanks
  
  e: This is friggin amazing!
  
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Didn't the Apollo developer say that he was planning on porting his app to the fediverse?

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- Voyager now.. i know this thread us really old.
  
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- No, some other apps have
  
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I just joined Lemmy today after uninstalling Reddit Is Fun. It was absolutely surreal just how much habit was in pulling out my phone and pressing the space where RIF used to be. Decided I'm kind of mostly done with Reddit other than quick information look ups on the website.

So here I am! First post! The only constant in life is change. Hello everyone, I hope we all get along! :)

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I'm going to leave RIF right where it's been on my home screen for the last decade, as a little memorial.

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I think a lot of moderators are just going to back down and return to business-as-usual from tomorrow. Reddit will suffer as a business but this isn't going to downright kill the site. Unlike say... Tumblr or OnlyFans, Reddit has a far more diverse clientele and many of them couldn't give a shit about third-party apps.

These half-arsed protests staged after the 14th June have told me that most of Reddit's mods are fucking cowards who are more afraid of losing their status as internet janitors than all the third-party apps.

Reddit's moderators could have easily brought the site to its knees if they just collectively stopped enforcing rules (including site-wide ones), removed Automoderator, unbanned everybody, then told the community to just go nuts.

The mods of /r/interestingasfuck had the right idea by encouraging users to post NSFW content, since this would have chased away advertisers in droves.

I mean the whole "sexy pics of John Oliver" protest that /r/pics had isn't going to chase away advertisers and was something that Spez could easily ignore, but having your content displayed alongside a flood of explicit pornographic images definitely will.

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I'd argue it will become like Facebook, with the younger and more intelligent crowd leaving the site.

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- Excuse me! I'm older and more intelligent, thank you very much.
  
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- I'd argue that you're right, and that it has already happened. If the bootlicking crowd on Reddit is actually organic users hearing a call to action to start commenting after months and years of inactivity, that is. Reddit is known to operate large networks of sock puppet accounts for fake engagement and narrative control (per Venture Beat's reporting, which quotes an admission from Huffman).
  
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I wonder how many people who didn't understand Reddit that well and just used it to scroll r/aww just woke up to disabled third party apps one day and figure that Reddit went under. I have to imagine they lost less internet literate users.

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Man, if you told me a couple months ago, that I would stop using Reddit, I wouldn't believe you. I've been on it over a decade. It took Spez ONE MONTH to undo everything and make that a reality.

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I hope Reddit fully dies off- that site is a cesspool and deserves to meet a fate similar to tumblr & myspace.

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Tumblr? Tf u mean? It's still doing pretty well, MySpace lost all content posted before 2016 and is now a useless empty husk. Tumblr is just smaller, but still active. This comparison makes no sense.

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- Yeah. Hell, a bunch of people just joined tumblr from reddit. There's a whole reddit refugee tag that was trending for a minute there.
  
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Even as somebody who has never used, and will likely never need Apollo, I am really grateful for what he did. However unintentionally, I think he ripped the mask off how rotten the management structure was. It's one thing to sell ads and collect hidden metadata. Pretty much all the apps do it. But the whole way Reddit treated him was beyond despicable.

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Agreed. When I saw the Apollo thread, my first thought was 'Nah, not even spez would do this' but I choked on that very fast when I saw the e-mails, the audio recordings and everything. It was so blatant, so asinine, so horribly fucked up.

I've never used the Apollo app, but millions of people did and in stead of thanking him for all his work, reddit just stabbed him in the back. Can't believe there are people still taking reddit's side on this, it's crazy.

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Hiya Lemmy.world, another Reddit refugee here, pleased to join you fine folk.

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Over a decade lurking on reddit; never posted. Just made a lemmy account. I don't need lemmy to be "the next big thing"... just need it to not be overrun by bots and astroturfing. Hopefully some of the smaller subs I visit move over.

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Those API changes will be the death of Reddit. When I glanced at RIF today in my app list and remembered it was offline, that brought me here finally. I held out hope that Spez wouldn't stand his ground but he did and now here we are. And this is my first post here, first of many. I hope this place thrives.

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Rest in peace beautiful RIF 😥 10+ years went by quickly! Time for new adventures now with both old and hopefully new family at Lemmy!

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11 years with reddit and RIF for me! I'm actually feeling a little rejuvenated being free from it and trying something new.

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- Yeah, I can understand that feeling 😊 Having a bit of a giddy feeling in a good way myself 😁
  
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I'll add the obligatory farewell to RIF - "the app I was happy to pay for". This seems like an interesting alternative - I hope the back end is up for it! I won't be going back to Reddit on principle.

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Can't be worse than what Musk just did.

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Ye, but is it a different website? And at least Twitter original app was half decent.

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Spez: Challenge Accepted.

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What did musk just do?

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- Basically the dude is DDOSing Twitter itself and using it as an excuse to ratelimit up the ass the entire userbase, including ppl who bought Blue (kinda ironic if you ask me lmao)
  
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RiF is dead, and so is the vast majority of my Reddit participation.

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10+ yr rif user, bring it Lemmy

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CYA REDDIT!! 8 year old account all deleted and everything I modded is handed down :)

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i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated

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Looking for a new home from Reddit; glad to be among friends!

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There goes RiF, so there goes me. Almost 12 years of Reddit, gone.

PSA: You can use browser scripts to securely delete your posts and comments. Don't gift Reddit your content. Force search engines to scrub dead Reddit links from their results.

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10 years on RIF and Apollo... but this here feels great. Glad to have such a nice alternative without the baggage

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I hope Lemmy will be successful, and maintain healthy communities.

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Sure hope things take off here. Fuck reddit.

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I realized that at work today, I didn't even check reddit at all beyond my initial opening of it. Checked Lemmy the rest of the day.

That and did actual work because everything was fucked at work but that's beside the point.

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- I love how my subscribed are all in one list now, as opposed to have to select each one...other than that however, I honestly wouldn't want to change much else. Somehow it makes it easier to explore. Reddit made it too easy to set in ritual...or it seems I'm hitting more topics here anyway
  
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Welcome, everyone! RIP Reddit Sync

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Holy shit this is about to be the top post for the instance, welcome, everyone who's new!!! be sure to check the Communities page for World.

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Hey all. RiF brought me here. Leaving behind a 12 year Reddit account.

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Hello there, fellow refugees!

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We here

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- I am doing my part!
  
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Hello Lemmy.world

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👋❤️

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Reddit was RiF for me. I don't like Tildes so can't follow TalkLittle to his new app. What's everyone using for Lemmy? Jerboa started crashing with the latest updates, so I'm trying Connect for Lemmy. It's ok. Would like to give a few other apps a crack too.

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What's his new app called? I wanna try out Tildes too

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- It's in development according to the RiF goodbye message. So no name yet. Will be interesting to see if it looks and feels like RiF.
  
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I didn't think infinity would be finite but tomorrow we'll reach the end of Infinity for sure

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One of the best apps for sure! If you want to keep using Infinity, you can build the app with your private API-key following this guide. Also there's a fork of Infinity which supposedly makes it compatible with Lemmy, but I haven't tried that one yet.

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Big ol fuck spez. Sync just closed down. I'm done with Reddit.

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Relay will still work for now. The developer stated they will be doing a subscription model soon. It's odd how they were able to do this but not Apollo.

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- It's not that they weren't able to, but refused out of principle. Users would suddenly have to pay way more than necessary for less content. Which is exactly what users of Relay will do.
  
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Highly recommend purging / editing your comments before you go. I used PowerDeleteSuite for my main and alt accounts and it worked really well. If you've got thousands of comments and heaps of data it'll take ages, but it's an important step, leave them with nothing they can monetize

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Or you could just post something positive about JK Rowling and reddit will delete everything for you!

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just got a 429 message from RiF. there it goes

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was on til the last moments, RIP RiF, my most used app by far....

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Is this the most upvotes a Lemmy post has received??

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on world at least the top is 2.7k

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- We've been deceived for years with post upvotes artificially inflated and then we get surprised at the end of the dopamine crash with posts in a more normal range
  
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Fellow RIFugee here moving in to the Fediverse. After 8 years, the moment I opened RIF and could no longer refresh my feed, it felt like the end of a chapter of my life. With every ending comes with new beginnings, so here's to Lemmy and the Fediverse!

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One more day until Reddit Isn't Fun... :(

It's been a good run, but without RiF the site is worthless.

That being said, it paves the way for the Fediverse to grow, so rather than celebrating the end of an era, I'm enjoying the birth of a new one.

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I crisis can be an opportunity.

It's unlikely that reddit was the best site possible for us. We know how to improve it.

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Yep! I have a reminder in my calendar: "Delete reddit user". 11 years of contributions gone. Already deleted all posts and comments, but kept the user back so that if anyone's keeping score, it counts.

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I just used PowerDeleteSuite to overwrite and delete my messages. I've also been using reddit for about 11 years. It feels sad in a way, like I'm losing a friend. The communities could be really great sometimes, and it'll take a while for the fediverse to truly catch up in terms of growth and features. I left my account active so I don't lose my saved posts but it might as well be dead, the app is garbage and the site is dying.

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- Yes. If you've not been using reddit for a little while, have you noticed any mental health changes?
  
  It's also nice to be here whilst it's still got new-thing energy. I like that.
  
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Excited for Lemmy.

Reddit was it was good while it lasted, but it was just a container for online communities. The AP protocol is superior to a centralized model in every way.

Onwards you beautiful nerds!

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