Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it’s great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

  • Onlycats@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    I was using Bacon Reader for Android for the last 10 years. For me it was the only way of using Reddit. I’m now checking Lemmy. I hope we can build a vibrant community here. I’m not coming back to Reddit.

    • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      RiF being killed was the last straw for me and Reddit.

      They just don’t care so long as they are making money. I was doxxed twice last year thanks to two different user on a fandom I moderated. They didn’t care that I was openly DOXed, pretty much them saying that it wasn’t their problem.

      They just don’t care about people, just how much trouble they will get in and how much money is to be made.

      So this whole “only money matters” ideal is a symptom of a larger issue that is going to get worse.

      • tool@r.rosettast0ned.comEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        FYI, you can patch RiF with Revanced to use your own OAuth token. I did it, and it works, but I’m not actually using it anymore/haven’t been to reddit for a while.

        I just did it as more of a “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” thing than anything else.

        • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I deleted RiF and removed all shorcuts and icons that lead to reddit

          I’m going with a mixture of cold turkey and “out of sight, out of mind”

          Thankfully lemmy helps.

    • RandomUserName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Similar for me but, Apollo. Reddit was only tolerable because of Apollo, and now that it’s gone, I am too. wefwef is quite close to it though. Im enjoying it so far.

        • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.netEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Wefwef is a labor of the love and passion of its creator. I’m guessing the Reddit app devs are burned out and constantly getting requests like “How can we integrate Blockchain into the app?” and “Is it possible to add ads to the comment section?”

      • cie6868@bucketology.xyzEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Liftup, which is somewhat close to BaconReader too. Couldn’t use Jerboa due to it not connecting to lemmy.world at the time I joined.

        Tried wefwef too and it’s great, but the iOS-adjacent UX is not right for me.

      • Onlycats@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m using Jerboa. Its good and its very similar to Bacon Reader. I’m just missing the bacon reader setting “hide read posts” and the hability to swipe to navigate and read posts.

    • smoll_pp_operator@vlemmy.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same. Used AlienBlue for a short while until I got an Android phone. Then moved to Bacon Reader for the following decade.

      Reddit is effectively dead to me. Without BR there is simply no way for me to interact with the site, plus I go out of my way to avoid reddit.com in search results.

      Maybe it doesn’t matter, but I like to think it does for their traffic statistics.

    • venusenvy47@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s the app I used exclusively. Have you found a Lemmy app that is similar? I’ve tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff, but I’m still looking for something comparable to BaconReader.