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Asking third-party reddit app devs to consider Lemmy after recent Reddit API changes. (www.reddit.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've also cross-posted this post on other third-party apps' subs:

EDIT: Forgot to write a bit of an introduction of myself, hello to everyone here, long time redditor and someone who also happens to mod a lot of subs on reddit such as r/electricvehicles, r/trulyunpopularopinion and etc!

Though I love to moderate and contribute to this communities meaningfully, I never liked reddit, as a huge FOSS fan, and these recent API changes are freaking stupid as well, there wasn't a better reason for me to not consider moving to Lemmy. I will be speaking with a lot of other reddit mods in my own mod teams and some other friends, hopefully I can bring some subs/people here.

Speaking of bringing people, please do consider checking out these posts I've linked above, and consider upvoting them if you agree, this situation with third-party apps are a great opportunity for Lemmy, hopefully it reaches to the devs, and even if not all apps make a move, even one would be a win.

Thank you!

EDIT 2: Hey guys! I missed some third party apps on the list above, just updated them, and the new added ones are RIF, Joey, Get Narwhal and RedReader. UPDATE: Added ReddPlanet.

Please do consider visiting those that I just added and upvote them, so hopefully they can reach to respective developers!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The reluctance of redditors to move to lemmy always amazes me.

Not surprisingly, there's a lot of posts in a lot of subs about the recently announced changes. In every post the same pattern is repeated ad-nauseum:

  • "i hate reddit, it sucks here, I've always wanted to leave, I'm never coming back once this happens"
  • "maybe we should move the sub to lemmy so we won't have this problem in future?"
  • "but what about all our data, the wiki & post history and such"
  • "but there's no users on lemmy"
  • "but that would split the community!"

This is the case even in the subs I would have thought would be really keen to jump ship, like /r/selfhosted

I think this type of approach is the right idea though, a better ecosystem can only be good.

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

"but there's no users on lemmy"

It's definitely a chicken and the egg situation.

I've been lurking here the past few days when I saw lemmy as a reddit alternative. I decided to sign up today as lurking isn't doing this place any favors. Hopefully more people will sign up, and the momentum will build and continue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been on lemmy for about a year, and this is the first time I've seen lemmy this consistently active.

It actually reminds me of reddit in the earlier years :')

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy is just the latest in a very long line of potential reddit successors. Historically, you can't move a subreddit to a different platform because redditors are users of reddit, not users of your particular subreddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its funny to me that those of us posting viable alternatives in those threads get drowned out by doomerism (there's nothing we can do!!!). There are alternatives out there to reddit, and they're already better experiences.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's really baffling. Especially because there are some solid but really small communities that would have a fairly easy time migrating but are still not even considering doing so because of the small userbase over here. These communities don't even benefit from the bigger userbase on reddit because the discussions are solely between the users that are subbed to the subreddits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I know it's unmaintained, but I really love the UI for "Slide for Reddit" and hope the dev for that picks it back up and maps the data inputs to Lemmy. Keep the UI exactly the same (maybe add tiny icons to the left of sublemmy names but that's it).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would love an app just like Sync that would work for Lemmy. Jerboa looks fairly close and quite similar just based on my very limited usage.

edit: clarification

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm here because of you. Loving your idea, and hoping they go for it. Because what the hell, Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Reddit banned him! They're freaking out so much.