Relay for Reddit just started requiring a paid subscription, so a lot of people are jumping ship.
I think it was the last free 3rd party app left.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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The last 3rd party app that is still holding its ground is infinity. It's a great app but a lot of users are telling the developer to just stop supporting Reddit.
Boost for Reddit quietly still works for moderators but the app is probably now unmaintained with all development effort (one guy) going towards the Lemmy version
Yeah. Boost still works fine for me though some bugs are there. Downloading videos isn't working properly and uploading images to posts is broken.
But then again, any app is better than the official one.
The official app is so terrible. I'll probably still check reddit occasionally using redreader once boost for reddit finally dies but it'll be a tiny fraction of my previous use. You'd have to pay me to use the official app.
Infinity has been subscription only for a month now. Unless you take the code and put in your own api key if you can still get it, you're not using it for free
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My dear Relay 😢. Relay for Reddit is dead, long live Relay for Reddit.
RedReader is a thing. But the UX is kinda bad, and it's probably only a matter of time before reddit kills that as well or it goes paid
They are supposed to keep it around for accessibility.
Supposed being the most important word here.
That's like google keeping mozilla firefox to not be technically a browser monopoly.
Keeping one ugly app for accessibility just to say that they also care for the community of disabled /accessibility challenged people.
Same here with "Now for Reddit" i want to ween off Reddit from desktop as well but a lot of niche gaming communities are dead here on lemmy
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There was a recent boost…. From Boost. Maybe those that came over are more posters rather than lurkers like we’re used to getting. I can’t say I’ve seen some major change though so I have no clue as to what you’re talking about.
There’s no real algorithm as we know it. I take that word as spying on you and taking your likes into mind to feed you more things. Doesn’t work like that at all on here.
A lot of us made accounts, or at least started regularly using the platform, when Boost was released. Previously there wasn't a client for my phone that I liked much and I reddit/lemmy almost exclusively on mobile these days.
I think you'll see even more activity when reddit actually slams the door on 3rd party clients. Most still work for now provided your account meets some annoying minor criteria.
I’m glad for sure. Welcome.
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I'm one of those boost people. I'd believe if you subscribed to have the app get installed in an uncertain future where it was ready for Lemmy you probably where pretty interested on it and not a casual browser
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I think of those as predatory algorithms. Tailored for engagement/screen-time based on everything they know specifically about you
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both, but isn't algorithm(we don't have that here) but problems with federations is being resolved and the code is being optimized , causing less problems on the servers
There's a 'New' algorithm, an 'Old' algorithm, a 'Hot' algorithm, an 'Active' algorithm, a 'Most Comments' algorithm, a 'New Comments' algorithm, a...
I'm looking forward to the new Scaled algorithm that comes with 0.19
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities
That's going to be a game changer. There are so many smaller communities I never see in my feed that will stay small forever because their posts just stay buried in my feed and no one sees them.
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There's algorithms. Just not user tailored ones.
There are many sorting algorithms in place here
Good...
Still need to see more nsfw content doe
be the change you wamt to see
Post hole, slut
/S obviously
If you like ai gen, fury, or anime tiddies. There's plenty! It's really true what they say about the tech sphere and the fury shit.....
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Sign up to a nsfw instance and browse local.
Lemmynsfw.com
And there's another instance or two I saw in the browser.
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The upcoming plans for forced targeted ads on Reddit may also have something to do with it.
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