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[–] [email protected] 370 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I didn't have a "tantrum" when they blocked my 3rd-party app for corporate reasons... I just stopped using Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, I didn't have a tantrum. I used a third party app because of the accessibility features it offered that the official app doesn't. I can't use reddit now, so I don't use reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Just curious, what app do you use for Lemmy?

I’m using Memmy on iPhone which has some good text size accessibility settings. But there’s some buggy stuff and I don’t think they’ve released any fixes or updates in a few months.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

I think Voyager is based on the famous iOS reddit app (Apollo?) and is regularly updated. Looks really polished and I'm also using it on android next to sync.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use Voyager! Awesome app, give it a try.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I'm using sync at the moment, I don't dislike it but there is room for improvement. I have very low accessibility needs. I have palsies in my hands so for me it's about having nice big icons to tap, because I don't have the dexterity to push tiny text links or really cramped hit boxes.

My phone GUI is enlarged and sync is just the first third party app I found that scaled well with my phone, most third party apps work for me, it's just the reddit official app that really, really doesn't. It's unreadable with my GUI settings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hey! I was using Memmy as well, but stopped a couple weeks ago since the developers aren’t doing much on there (no shade to them - it’s a free project so I appreciate what they did at all!). I recently switched to Voyager and it’s been seamless and appears to be better supported.

Voyager still has some slight bugs but it’s pretty good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I made the same switch, can recommend Voyager as well!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Eternity. For me, this app is the only one without significant problems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I tried Eternity but uninstalled it when I realized that it would just go back to my homepage if I switched away from the app for any reason. I'm using Liftoff at the moment but it's got its own problems. I might try Voyager some time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Never encountered that bug on Eternity but I would suggest making a bug report for that issue on the page for Eternity so they might be able to fix it.

Liftoff is on it's last legs, once the last 0.18.5 instances make the upgrade to 0.19 it'll almost certainly be unusable. Dev isn't active anymore so I wouldn't count on an update to fix it either, at least not any time soon. He also said he doesn't have much experience with auth so even if he does get back to it it could take him a while to re-implement login.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I just experimented your observation and the behavior is not the same. Are you sure it isn't your settibgs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Arctic is usually recommended for iOS

For the complete list of clients: https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

16 iOS Lemmy clients?! Wow.

Wonder what the motivations were for the closed-source developers…

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So now they are pushing the narrative eight months later that people left in a tantrum?

The fact they still talk about that over there says a lot.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A popular theory is that a lot of bots were deployed to make the exodus seem less impactful. So, officially the numbers might be similar, but I'm sure there's less real content and people...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

You didn't, but lots did. They're still using reddit to this day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I thought blocking nsfw posts on mobile was bad enough until I tried viewing a totally SFW subreddit that was small enough to not be "verified". Straight up didn't let me view a subreddit that wasn't essentially approved without logging in or using the app.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Me too, I did most of my redditing on the phone. So the only redditing I do these days is when on desktop looking for various hardware recommendations, cause unfortunately I don't know how to search lemmy that well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lenny is also just missing the decade of pcmasterrace and other pc hardware sub content. It might get there in time but for now Reddit is still a font of information and advice from knowledgeable people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

for now Reddit is still a font of information and advice from knowledgeable people.

That too is changing. For the last few months, most technical posts I search on reddit are starting to get filled with [Deleted] for all the actual answers as reddit's current push to ban left leaning users has removed all the people who actually were interested in giving answers in the past.

I mean yeah, there was always a few [Deleted]s in every old thread but in the last half year it has become the majority of them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

On Reddit, if a comment is removed by admin or moderators, it displays [removed]. [deleted] means the user themself did it. I’d imagine what you’re seeing is people like myself, who used scripts to delete all of our comments from the site.