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Apollo
I didn’t even realize how long I’d been using Apollo until all this stuff happened. It’s been the only way I’ve used Reddit for five years. Not having access to it anymore really hurts. Christian did such a phenomenal job of making Apollo feel incredibly intuitive and customizable without feeling overly cluttered. I’m really going to miss spending my time lurking over there.
Damn, me too. It sounds so cheesy but it was really integral to me in keeping up with news, etc, etc, etc. I hate that Reddit did all that.
Have you tried wefwef? It’s pretty much Apollo for lemmy
I haven’t!
It’s renamed voyager now, but I still have the wefwef pwa cus I like the name so much
Same here, and then I found Memmy for Lemmy and it’s like I just moved to another state that’s just like home
That’s what I use now!
RiF.
RiP.
Originally? AlienBlue. It was the best, but then they killed it, so I went to Apollo.
They bought it first and then killed it so that they could present their own BS “official” app.
I still have it installed on my work phone.
I have it on my phone too lol. Idk why, but I have a thing about keeping old apps
The 4 years of reddit gold for free was pretty nice. Didn’t ever motivate me to spend a dime on gold myself after it expired, but it made reddit slightly more bearable.
I went Alien Blue > Antenna > Narwhal. I think the latter 2 were similar to the original AB. Apollo just felt too cluttered and “extra” to me. I just wanted a minimalist app.
Tried Narwal lately while I ween myself off of Reddit, but I’m not a huge fan. It’s little things, like you can see captions on posts, but it’s got too many little annoyances
Seconding this.
RIF. Ugh, what a shame.
Yeah it’s been many years but I remember trying the official reddit app and it simply didnt work. I installed rif and it was perfect. I used rif for many years. Countless hours just scrolling my carefully curated subs.
So sad. When I launched it and it gave me an error that day the api changes kicked in, it felt like a friend just died.
Snif.
I think the fediverse might just be ok tho. These networks taking off right now are thanks to spez. Lol.
Rif
Sync
i used to use it but then it had a glitch or something and everybody had the app crash a lot so i switched to RiF
Same but stuck on an old version because I don’t have Google Play Services
Me too
Sync on android and Apollo on iOS, both were sublime in their own way.
Currently using Memmy on iOS for lemmy, but I have about a dozen other apps installed since I’ve been trying all of them
I think that memmy is showing a lot of progress, but I’ve been getting better search results from mlem, so I’m using both right now. I think a couple more might be out for iOS right now (just grabbed liftoff).
I’m another one of those Alien Blue -> Apollo -> gtfo users. I never would have even signed up for reddit if it wasn’t for third party apps because their UI was terrible in every iteration and implementation, and I was a regular user for over ten years.
Boost
Boost Gang
Checking in! Can’t wait for boost for lemmy!
RiF for nearly 10 years. And is sorely missed.
revanced extended patched rif, so i still use it
RIF was fun for reddit
I used the official app, but i decided to quit because of all the API debacle.
So now i use Jerboa for Lemmy.
Yeah, same here. Th API changes had 0 effect on me, but corporate money grabs that involve restricted access and screwing the community is a big no no for me.
I used the web browser and really loved Reddit, but the way they screwed everyone over was too much to put up with. So glad I found out about Lemmy before I left!
And the same for me as well. I used the official app, and had no issues with it personally. I lurked for the most part but chimed in on subs about some of my favorite shows and questions regarding programming.
Once the shitshow hit the fan, I was already planning my exit from Instagram (hardest one, lots of IRL friends over the years), and had joined mastodon. I actually signed up for lemmy and mastodon about a year prior to the migration, but at the time it was pretty dead. Now, while not as lovely as their corporate counterparts, each has a vibrant enough community that I’m not missing either.
Boooooooooooooost!
Really looking forward to the Lemmy version. Jerboa has a pretty similar UI but it just doesn’t have the same polish.
Yeah. Connect seems to be pretty good. Haven’t tried Jerboa
Relay, great app
Relay still works.
Apollo
Joey, I would gladly use Joey again if they hosted Lemmy
Joey