• cousinofjah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        When I went to download Voyager to test it out, I realized that I still had Apollo installed. I hadn’t had the heart to delete it …until now.

        • Hawke@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 个月前

          Not the person you replied to, but Memmy and then Voyager once Memmy became unmaintained. I’m mostly happy with it, and it seems to generally improve with time.

          Only complaint now is weirdness around sharing images with other apps: sometimes they show up as the image URL and sometimes as the actual image

          • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            9 个月前

            That Memmy dev went unimaginable hard for a month or two, then really started to fall behind everyone else.

            I wonder what happened. I wonder if they were unemployed then got a new job or something.

            • macarthur_park@lemmy.world
              7·
              9 个月前

              Yeah they had the first functional iOS app long before anyone else (Mlem had started earlier but stalled for a while). I recall some of the Memmy developer’s comments saying they had learned a lot about app development since the first beta and had big plans to overhaul the code base. I’m assuming this turned into too much for them to handle, especially as an unpaid gig.

              It’s a shame Memmy’s been abandoned, but I’m still super appreciative of the developer for making a workable Lemmy app back then. It definitely helped ease the sting of the transition from Reddit.

              • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                9 个月前

                Yeah, it was a much better experience than the Lemmy web app during the early days. Lemmy’s devs famously don’t care very much about their mobile client.

        • qooqie@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 个月前

          I went with Avelon until the devs went silent for awhile. Still installed, I assume they have irl problems. Right now I’m using arctic and it’s crisp as hell, very nice app

  • Curious Canid@lemmy.caEnglish
    42·
    9 个月前

    I am yet another fledditor. I think I looked at nearly all the alternatives and I liked the Fediverse the best.

    I do miss the sheer volume of participation on reddit, but I that has been steadily improving. And the quality and tone of the conversations is generally much better.

    Any forums with large numbers of participants is going to have certain problems. The difference is that reddit turned most of those problems into institutions while Lemmy provides better ways to deal with them and easier ways to avoid them.

    Having worked in high tech for almost four decades, I have come to appreciate the advantages of not having everything controlled by a central authority. Sooner or later the leadership, however benevolent, will change into something repressive and exploitive. Once that happens, it will remain that way forever, because there is no financial or political incentive to move in that direction. Replacement has been the only thing that works, at least so far. The Fediverse provides an alternative to that cycle that seems viable.

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      15·
      9 个月前

      RiF was so good. It’s how I interacted with reddit for a very long time. Now Jerboa but it’s still not quite there. Although it’s free and the devs are super awesome.

    • Lemming421@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 个月前

      Same here. I floundered and ended up on Kbin. Then that had a massive outage and I discovered that lemmy had Voyager, and bam!

  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
    22·
    9 个月前

    I didn’t like the changes on Reddit with the API and suddenly charging for access. Turns out, I like it better here. Probably would have liked it before the Reddit refugee situation, too.

  • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
    21·
    9 个月前

    Boost got blocked on Reddit during the API shutdown, the creator then made the app for Lemmy. I came here with the rest of the Reddit Refugees.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
    201·
    9 个月前

    Reddit api change but indirectly.

    The 3rd party app closedown led to tons of weird niche subs showing up on popular, and their mods were quite silly, and several sub bans later, a complete ban for defending Palestine.

    • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 个月前

      From what I’ve seen, that last bit might get you some negative responses here, too. Unless you picked your instance well, it might cause you trouble with your account, too.

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        31·
        9 个月前

        It has yeah.

        Doesn’t matter, fediverse is so wide that if I end up on an instance like that, I’d like to be banned so as not to even accidentally go there again.

        Hell, I could put up my own instance if I wanted to.