Rather than simply look to Lemmy as a replacement, I've also been trying not just not need to look at a screen constantly.
Matthew
joined 1 year ago
If folks aren't posting and commenting, Lemmy looks empty and inactive. If potential new users peak in and see what looks like a ghost town, they don't stick around.
It made me a bit emotional. Can't wait to use Sync for Lemmy.
There is a feeling of loyalty. Sync was a mainstay on my phone for close to a decade.
Apollo was big in the headlines because its developer was the most vocal about the API changes.
As for why people used third-party apps, it's mostly a preference thing. Something to note is that reddit didn't always have an official app. Everyone using reddit before 2016 had to use a third-party app if they wanted to use reddit on their phone. A lot of the apps we watched get shut down, especially the ones on android (RiF, Sync, BaconReader, etc) have been around for a long time, and had loyal user bases.
Apollo was younger than the official app, but it was likely favored by those who had used Alien Blue (a very popular third-party app for iOS that was bought by Reddit and turned into the official app)
I've been trying to read more. At lunchtime, for example, where I'd usually scroll endlessly through reddit for an hour, I've now for a book open.
I'm gonna be honest. I don't see anything wrong with this. I know the majority of us are just coming off some corporate bullshit from reddit, but I don't think it's wrong to not let your very expensive to maintain service be used for free without ads.
I promise that I'm not trying to suck a billionaire's cock when I say that I marvel in awe at YouTube's ability to input and output such astronomical amount of data at any given time, without any complaints.
Connect is working perfectly well for me, but I feel such loyalty towards Sync after using it for so many years. I can't wait to use it again.
Unfortunately, every new Battlefield game is shit on release day. The question is: is it still shit?
You can view and comment in other instances (notice that my account is from programming.dev).
If you're on desktop, you can see the equivalent of /r/all by viewing "all" on your instance. To view a community on another instance, you use the url: {domain of your instance}/c/{community name}@{domain of the instance of that community}
For example, I'm here and commenting with the url: programming.dev/c/main@sh.itjust.works
I've only started using it, but I'm liking it alright. That being said, I'm going to use Sync as soon as it's available.
It's not your fault, buddies