Seems like the feeds are more active and I’m not hitting things with 3 upvotes 20 minutes into my scroll. Did Connect change something, did Lemmy or are we just seeing some population increase from Boost?

  • Halestorm42@lemmy.world
    106·
    9 months ago

    Relay for Reddit just started requiring a paid subscription, so a lot of people are jumping ship.

    I think it was the last free 3rd party app left.

    • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      342·
      9 months ago

      The last 3rd party app that is still holding its ground is infinity. It’s a great app but a lot of users are telling the developer to just stop supporting Reddit.

      • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
        22·
        9 months ago

        Boost for Reddit quietly still works for moderators but the app is probably now unmaintained with all development effort (one guy) going towards the Lemmy version

        • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          9 months ago

          Yeah. Boost still works fine for me though some bugs are there. Downloading videos isn’t working properly and uploading images to posts is broken.

          But then again, any app is better than the official one.

          • seaQueue@lemmy.world
            5·
            9 months ago

            The official app is so terrible. I’ll probably still check reddit occasionally using redreader once boost for reddit finally dies but it’ll be a tiny fraction of my previous use. You’d have to pay me to use the official app.

      • SolarNialamide@lemm.ee
        9·
        9 months ago

        Infinity has been subscription only for a month now. Unless you take the code and put in your own api key if you can still get it, you’re not using it for free

    • Sigmatics@lemmy.ca
      71·
      9 months ago

      RedReader is a thing. But the UX is kinda bad, and it’s probably only a matter of time before reddit kills that as well or it goes paid

        • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          6·
          9 months ago

          That’s like google keeping mozilla firefox to not be technically a browser monopoly.

          Keeping one ugly app for accessibility just to say that they also care for the community of disabled /accessibility challenged people.

    • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Same here with “Now for Reddit” i want to ween off Reddit from desktop as well but a lot of niche gaming communities are dead here on lemmy

    • gurmif@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      9 months ago

      That’s why I’m here. I mean, I was already using Lemmy since the whole api thing started earlier this year, but since my reddit app was still working I wasn’t spending much time here.