Spyke
lemmy.world

Still have Apollo installed, and just installed Mlem. At this point I‘m not going to bother with going back to the frontpage of unawnsered questions

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lemmy.ml

i haven't mustered up the emotional fortitude to uninstall rif yet. still, i seem to have gotten out of the habit of absent mindedly opening it

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That was me w baconreader for sure.

Now I have one Lemmy app for when lemmy.world is working, and another for when it isn't.

Haven't open baconreader in a while, but haven't uninstalled it either.

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I replaced RiF by Jerboa but I'm still craving the endless doomscrolling of askreddit

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feddit.de

Noooo I gotta write "fellate fuck spez" so other ppl on reddit see that I am totally totally against reddit. Just gonna buy some reddit gold to really drive home the point!!!

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saltescreply
lemmy.world

In dark mode, that actually looks like a LOL LOLing through space.

I swear I haven't had psychadellics. In fact, it'd probably be a mesmerising trap on psychadellics.

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remotelovereply
lemmy.world

Phone text, in general, is interesting on psychedelics. For me, text just turns into an incomprehensible squiggles that look kind of like letters but absolutely aren't. Things that look dull usually tend to stay that way during a trip. Bright colors and tie-die are awesome though.

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For me everything's clear but text pops out and even flat UI takes 3D form. The glow is also pretty. The keyboard is the most fascinating part because it looks big and clear to fit the whole alphabet, and so my thumbs are fucking huge. Haven't tried outside of dark mode, think I wouldn't like it.

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lemmy.world

I am in disbelief, the last time I used reddit this was a solved issue, and now they've gone and unsolved it??

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I'm slowly reaching the point where I wonder how the majority of mobile users apparently always used reddit official "app". Like... there's more effective ways to torture yourself if you're into that..

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Hey, at least they're being equitable about it, and making the site equally inaccessible for everyone!

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Ah yes, you have reached the Loom. The hidden gateway into the threadiverse. One must strum the threads to the ballad of federation to find the hidden nymph, Lemmy. Guiding one towards the oasis of --- okay im done. lol

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lemmy.sdf.org

I'm glad that I don't use Reddit anymore, unless forced.

Even when forced, I feel dirty.

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PorkSodareply
lemmy.world

Forced, no. But as a dev, Google leads me to a lot of reddit posts for troubleshooting and discussion.

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Oof, I hear ya there.

Love your username BTW, I've actually got a copy of the album somewhere..

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Reddit was an essential part of the internet. Thankfully it's been mostly archived.

Losing the data from Reddit would be a catastrophe on the level of the library of Alexandra.

The people who run Reddit know all of this and thus the reason they want some much money for things like the API.

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And you notice that because…. YOU WERE ON THE REDDIT APP! Uninstall that crap! (Sorry not sorry for all caps)

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As someone who is visually impaired, separating by colors is much easier to keep track on

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lemmy.world

I accidentally reinstalled it a few weeks ago. Never opened it. Today I got a push notification and I’ve never opened the app of logged in. What a bunch of shit.

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lemmy.world

Yeah, the random push notifications were the main reason I uninstalled it before the whole API thing even started. I was logged in but never used it because I had Apollo. The only reason I even had it was because Apollo’s “Open in Apollo” function didn’t seem to work 100% of the time.

The official app would send me push notifications for trending posts on subs I wasn’t even subscribed to. I quickly got tired of it, and uninstalled it after like a week. Never looked back, and switched entirely to Apollo. Once the API shit hit the fan, I walked away and haven’t missed it. Looking back at all the background activity that the official app had, (it’s horrible for battery life because of all the massive amounts of telemetry it sends) I’m half convinced that the push notifications were simply an attempt to keep the app open in the background. Like if you force-closed it, they’d occasionally send you notifications simply to get you to open the app for a second so it can run in the background again.

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I was getting emails also. All of a sudden reddit decided I needed to know what subreddits were trending via email. I'd tell it to quit sending me that shit and it would send them again after like 2 weeks.

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flukereply
lemmy.world

At least for Android you can turn off push notifications. Long press the notification in question on the top pull down menu and pick your options.

Applicable for all apps, not just Reddit. Somhandy to silence irritating Uber Eats or Twitter crap.

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You can do that in iOS too. But having notifications enabled for messages was nice. The problem was that the app didn’t have an obvious way to disable only the spammy notifications.

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lemmy.world

r/softwaregore lmao

But also, I know Sync is gone but there are other third party apps still clinging on like Relay. So why are you still using the official app?

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Zuberireply
lemmy.world

Why are either of you still on reddit at all?..

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lemmy.world

I've only just started to properly find my footing on Lemmy by creating this account two days ago. This takes a bit of time haha.

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Ryumast3rreply
lemmy.world

Yeah I don't blame you. Despite how big lemmy has gotten lately I think people lose sight of the fact that there's a lot of niche communities that have absolutely 0 engagement here but on reddit are pretty active.

And yes, you can say "well start creating content for those" and you'd be right, but it still doesn't fix the activity issue right now. It just builds it for later.

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Indeed it's a paradox of needing users to create content, but also needing users to read said content. Nobody likes wasting time putting effort into something that is likely to go into the void.

Once such communities hit critical-mass, it becomes self-sustaining.

Step 1 I believe is either joining the communities of your interest or making said communities if they do not exist. Over time the users will join and once enough of an audience fills the theater, the content will come.

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Sync? Gone? Sync moved to Lemmy and it's gorgeous.

And then there's the cracked sync client that just works... https://github.com/Liz-chan/sink-for-everyone/releases/

Apparently it's using the API key of some official function (or even app?) and spoofs the corresponding user agent, so it can't be easily detected.

Sync won't be updated any longer, so once reddit messes with the API again, functions will break eventually. But for now it works.

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As a solution, you can always have it being read to you by the accessibility feat- ohh wait.

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yeah its so slow and buggy. i was on boost then all this shit happebed.

boost for lemmy when.

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Not sure I'm going to support it when there all plenty of decent free third party apps. Been using Jerboa since I made the switch, and have enjoyed the interface quite a bit.

I just can't get behind the idea of paying for the ad free experience. Still support the developer, but it better not be like Sync's $20.

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I remember getting a new phone and somehow i downloaded reddit instead of boost. I thought Ah come on, how bad can it be, let's try one more round. 5 minutes in I ended up like this and noped out of there. I still miss my reddit communities a bit, but as a mobile user there is no going back.

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They prefer investing in crypto shit before fixing that trash app

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splooshreply
lemmy.world

That's definitely true, but Sync also fixed it a while back.

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DTFpandareply
lemmy.world

Sync is also one dev while reddit employs over 50 devs for their mobile app alone.

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ikiddreply
lemmy.ca

They're fucking it up 50X faster than a single dev could accomplish.

Oh, and they have all the access to the backend that no third party app developer has. What a fucking pack of amateurs.

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lemmy.world

I was going to say. Once you were 6(?) replies deep Sync would show "Continue thread" and open in a window so you wouldn't get that happening...

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Thanks for the hard work mate, I hear the next beta is gonna blow us all away. Also I'm looking forward to posting.

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kbin.social

Whose garbage app? Never heard of this "red dit" place. What's a "dit" and why isn't it some other color?

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JaymesRSreply
midwest.social

I think I understand where you made the mistake, it’s not red dit, I think it’s supposed to be re ddit. It’s where they “did it” again (or “re did it”) but like All those other early 2000’s sites they just dropped a vowel so it’s just re ddit.

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Ah, a common mistake to make. It's not 're-ddit,' Im pretty sure it comes from 'reddi-t' as in "Ready Tea" but like many early 2000s websites they tried to make it sound more approachable, so it's just 'reddi-t' as your cup of tea will be cool enough to drink by the time it's transmitted all your data.

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You should try Lemmy bruh. Since you already installed it, write a one star playstore review then delete and never look back.

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I dunno, it seems like it accomplishes its primary purpose well enough? Too bad for you that purpose is to deliver ads to the user to see while doomscrolling...and nothing else.:-(

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Since when was the Reddit app green? Is this even the actual Reddit app?

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But at least you know how many levels deep you are reading, if you could see the words

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lemmy.world

Maybe they think so low of their users that they don't expect more than two levels of nesting.

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