Well i am certainly not using reddit on my tablet anymore.
Honestly Reddit doesn’t infuriate me anymore. I haven’t been on reddit for 2 weeks now and I no longer feel the urge to check that site. I expect I’ll still end up there occasionally when I search for stuff, but gone are the days when I spend an hour or two every night on reddit.
Why would I go on bad lemmy?
That’s actually been my experience as well lol.
I did actually deliberately jump on reddit on desktop recently, just to check on a few things and see how the protests were going.
There wasn’t really anything informative on the front page that hadn’t already been posted here. The quality of posts actually seemed worse overall
The quality of the posts being worse makes sense, I’m guessing some of the Reddit power users moved here and they were generating the majority of quality OC on Reddit.
I also feel like it’s become more right wing. Or at least now that some people have left, the balance has shifted further to the right. I went on yesterday, and r/WhitePeopleTwitter, a fairly left wing sub, is now having a lot of Republicans. Really killed my desire to go back. It was something I know a lot of people predicted would happen, but still sad in a way to see.
Edit: Also the fact that the main niche subs I went to are dead. They used to be pretty active, but since they reopened, a lot of users were not happy. So now it’s a post every few days. I think one of the subs just got completely deleted. Sadly they’re not as active here.
I opened Reddit, saw no bean posts so I immediately closed it.
Same for me. When RIF stopped working I went into Lemmy and haven’t went on Reddit since. The FOMO I thought I’d get isn’t there because I’m active and welcome here. I have people to connect with, and that’s what I really only wanted out of a social site like this.
There’s still quite a few subreddits I miss. Plus the larger community. Some communities are here, but they’re dead with no users, and I don’t really have what to contribute.
I wanted to try listing all of them, but I realized there’s like 40 of them.
Mostly, I miss r/batteries, r/ElectroBOOM, r/linuxmint, r/ManjaroLinux, r/LinuxMasterrace, r/SpaceXMasterrace, r/pcmasterrace, r/computers, r/laptops, r/amateursatellites, r/whatisthisthing and r/RTLSDR which also had cool people like developer of noaa-apt and Ryzerth, the developer of SDR++, plus many more.
Edit: Oh, how could I forget dereksgc, another cool guy who puts out lots of useful info.Things will slowly grow if we all stick with Lemmy though. It’s really just a matter of time until it reaches a critical mass.
Yes that’s the only thing I would miss from Reddit. The wealth of knowledge that lives on their servers and the community until they more over here
It’ll come with time.
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I can leave the larger community, but I do miss a couple subreddits.
The good thing about the Reddit before the dark times of 3 weeks ago, was that it had a large enough user graph that there were enough people with niche interests to have an active community. Facebook also has this critical user graph.
The good thing about ActivityPub based communities is that there is the potential to have much larger federated user graphs than the individual closed business-based platforms.
I still get a little heartbroken seeing the Apollo icon on my dock. 😭
I couldn’t bring myself to uninstall it completely so I just removed it from my Home Screen, it can live out its retirement in the app library
The only sub I go to now is my local city’s subreddit for a good stream of local news and happenings. That hasn’t migrated to Lemmy yet and I don’t want to moderate it so I’m not making it here lol
What is that app possibly made of that it cant run on literally anything? It’s just an app for text and images. I dont get it, is it optimized like an actual potato?
is it optimized like an actual potato?
Back when it was still in beta, it went through a period where it drained my battery from 100% to dead in under 30 minutes.
Just by being installed, not even actually using it.
Facebook still does this to me. I log in via Web app now.
Could be a library or feature that the devs didn’t consider worth maintaining on older devices.
For context, the OP appears to be using Android 5 or 5.1, released in 2014/2015 respectively and is used on 1.1-1.3% devices worldwide.
What a stupid anti-human shit, I hate it. All my devices from 10 years ago are still perfectly fine and operational, and I can’t use them because of some people’s laziness. They are used on 1% devices not because they are necessarily bad or broken but because it’s impossible to use them now for arbitrary reasons.
This really has nothing to do with being lazy, a lot of modern software just straight up isn’t supported anymore on such old systems. Making it compatible and testing it on those old platforms makes no business sense at all. Far too expensive with little to no benefit overall.
If anyone is to blame here it’s the phone manufacturers that don’t provide updates to those devices.
Exactly. Rag on Reddit all you want, but a company maintaining compatibility with an almost 10 year old OS version is a bit much.
Ribbits
Windows 8.1 Release: October 17, 2013 Windows 8 EoL: January 10, 2023
Exactly, they EOL it after 10 years. And that’s MICROSOFT. Reddit is smaller by many orders of magnitude.
If anything, backward compatibility is Google’s fault.
Bingo. For a lot of devices, especially anything made after 2015-ish, there’s no real reason why mid to high-end devices couldn’t be running the most recent OS version outside of “it’s a lot of work to certify updates for so many devices”. Thankfully Android has a custom ROM scene which keeps devices going for a few years longer.
I’ve never seen such an aggressive take on maintaining backwards compatibility haha
Well, true. But it is more reasonable to hate the manufacturer who refused to update, not the app devs who would have to do more work for small gain. Or unofficially update your own device, if possible.
I’m not hating on the developers, I’m hating on the whole situation
Mobile devices have become like 20x more powerful in the last 10 years lol. Found my Dad’s old Galaxy S3 while cleaning the house, and it was still in working condition. Just soo freaking slow cause all the websites and were made for better hardware.
Yeah, except for the fact that modern Samsung s20 is not really that much more powerful than your s3. Sure it has more RAM, significantly more, but the processor is barely twice as good.
10 years old device has plenty power to run whatever website can offer, apart from maybe some battery degradation. Hell, I have 20 years old laptop that can do that. The reason it doesn’t is not technical, it’s almost exclusively economical, by which I mean “lazy cheap bastards don’t give a flying fuck about the mountains of e-waste we produce”This is just an ignorant take on things. The S20 has like 4x the core count, and each one of those is at least 2x as energy efficient, and 4x more powerful.
No way the S20 is only slightly more powerful than an S3. If you’re not using any CPU intensive apps, such as games, then yeah, you aren’t going to see a massive difference. My S7 still runs well enough for browsing, music, and videos, but my S10 will run circles around it if I actually leverage its capabilities.
One of the reasons is security, older Android APIs let your apps do whatever they want. You probably could try to find an apk that would work on older devices, but google has minimal API requirements that involve permissions and data access, and if your app doesn’t support them it wont be allowed on the Play Store. So even if devs supported other devices, you wouldn’t find the app on the store.
Probably the same team that used to make the Snapchat Android app back in the day
What makes it even more ridiculous is that it was originally a perfectly functional 3rd party app that they bought out. AlienBlue worked on ipads. A decade ago.
I mean, look at the facebook app. They had to do “optimizations”, because they ran into limits of Android’s Dalvik a few years back.
More than a few years back - they’ve long since replaced dalvik with ART.
Or i confused dalvik with art. Don’t know anymore. Facebook app got leaner?
No, it’s just been about 10 years since they had that issue. Facebook mitigated it by splitting its services into multiple apps.
Huh, time flies.
Tell me about it. Dalvik was replaced by the ART in Android 4.4 Kitkat IIRC, which is what my Nexus 7 shipped with back in 2013. Feels like 3 years ago rather than 10.
Can we all just leave the Reddit chatter to the Reddit or Redditmigration communities at this point please? If not yet, then maybe soon? This ex-partner behavior is just going to turn off new people from joining in the long run.
Yes! It seems that half the community posts on here are just Reddit-bashing and that isn’t going to drive engagement at all.
Consider it a blessing.
A blessing, a blessing from the Lord!
And there was much rejoicing.
You’re not missing much
Great news.
I only ever used Reddit in Firefox on desktop anyway - but now I use it a whole lot less (maybe just one reply per day trolling people with interesting posts they’d be better posting here).
Lemmy is a shit-show… but it’s OUR shit-show and we’ll adjust, and clever people will develop.
Right on man. My last comment on R3dd!t told people the amount of time they spent figuring out how to still use 3rd party apps, they can direct that effort into learning how to participate in the Fediverse. Got a hundred-ish downvotes so that means a hundred people now know Lemmy exists.
MY shit-show ya commie bastard. NEXT.
you mean poop-show
What is this redit you are talking about? I don’t know what that is.
never knew her
reddit the web, being ghosted by previous redditor
They detected that you must be too poor to be worth supporting. It’s simple economics. They needed to be able to balance out the incredible infrastructure costs you were bound to incur.
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The app is named joey but the icon is of a koala??? 🤔
Although commonly known as a baby kangaroo, a joey is basically a baby marsupial. So that can include koala, opossum, wombat, etc.
TIL
And baby Monotremes (Echidna, Platypus) are called Puggles.
And then there’s eutherians (placental mammals)
Which have all sorts of names for their bubbies. Kits, kittens, cubs, pups, lambs, foals, kids, piglets… etc, etc.
Well now how are you going to see all those ads?
Lol download Connet for Lemmy.
Connect and Liftoff are by far my favorites.
I couldn’t figure out how to make a top level comment in liftoff. It was very visually appealing though
Top level as in a new comment? There’s a floating button on the bottom right
I did reinstall it. It works perfect now and looks gorgeous and doesn’t run into many errors. I also noticed via Exodus that it asks for fewer permissions than any other lemmy app
Hm. Doesn’t show for me. Maybe I need to reinstall
Thunder and wefwef are also pretty good. I really like the gesture controls on them though, so that may be biasing me a bit.
Is this an app rec for tablets specifically, or just Lemmy apps in general?
Android tab and mobiles
Probably for the best.
I may use Reddit through the browser on occasion while googling (but without logging in). My Reddit activity has dropped 99%. The 1% is lurking the World News thread to follow Ukraine war updates while logged out.
Exactly what I’m doing. That and the UkraineConflict subreddit. Have to use old subdomain to get in without logging in. I won’t comment anymore.
Did you think they cared about accessibility?
You’re not missing out on anything…
