How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
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Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.

How is reddit post protest, did it really win over protesters? Did the ones who left make a dent? Or like all things before, did it ultimately do nothing?

  • stevehobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1551·
    1 year ago

    It really really hope Lemmy takes off. For me, there’s enough here that I’m set. I look forward to the apps getting better and the platform getting more stable.

    • MarcellusDrum@lemmy.mlEnglish
      43·
      1 year ago

      If you’re still having issues with apps, try wefwef.app. I have no complaints since I started using it.

      • stevehobbes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        471·
        1 year ago

        I’m actually on the TestFlight for Memmy and it’s getting much better very quickly.

        But I was an Apollo addict and that is a very high bar.

        Wefwef reversing the colors on upvotes and downvotes triggers me, and at least on iOS it has a pretty annoying WebKit related bug where it stops scrolling until you tap something.

        Memmy is quite good though, the functionality is there and the polish will come!

        • pm_me_your_happiness@lemmy.oneEnglish
          14·
          1 year ago

          The main thing that got me on Memmy over wefwef is probably stupid, but it’s the haptic feedback on swiping to upvote.

          It’s like a comfort blanket after Apollo was shut down

        • jiji@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          I was using Mlem more but this latest update to Memmy really looks great, and afaik it’s the first of what I have to add the ability to hide posts (at least on iOS), which was an essential feature for me on Apollo. Now I just want to be able to change my browsing swipe controls to hide and save swiping right like I did on Apollo! Aesthetically it’s looking really good too. I like the Apollo-esque themes.

      • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        Only issue I’ve had with wefwef is that I can’t seem to subscribe to communities using it? Like if I go to a sidebar, there is just no subscribe button. But if I go to the same sidebar in my browser, I can subscribe just fine.

        Anyone else have this issue?

        edit: Just tried again after posting this, and it seems to be working ok now. I’ve updated it like 3 times in the past 2 days so maybe they fixed it. Neat.

    • Tygr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I don’t want it to absolutely explode in popularity to the point all the drama follows with it. I’m kinda liking being with a lot of savvy app users who contribute right now.

    • Ready! Player 31@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Agreed. Lemmy is very nearly active enough for me, so once the big apps like Sync start rolling in it defo will. Beyond that I don’t really care if Lemmy never gets as big as reddit.