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How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?

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[–] Cstrrider1@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

I use Infinity since its open source

[–] madmaurice@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well... Not anymore I don't

[–] polarimetric@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, seems like this poll is missing an important “I did before leaving Reddit” option.

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[–] Thalyssa@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

RiF for 10 years.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 12 points 1 year ago

I use Infinity and have found it to be absolutely excellent. I wish I could continue to use it rather than leave altogether.

[–] CapnJimby@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync IS Reddit to me since I haven't used my desktop for primary browsing of the site in years. It's a shame Reddit is disappearing shortly.

[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.

[–] lowbatt@lemmy.cloud56.me 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been using boost for a little over a year. I have not be on since the blackout started.

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[–] Nugget_in_biscuit@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Apollo was great while it lasted

[–] bliss@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Use Apollo and now only open/upvote posts and polls about the resistance.

[–] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I mean, kind of...

I use Sync and still have it installed, but now it just aggravates me when I open it. Not because of Sync, but because Reddit is just... bleh.

Maybe I'll uninstall it later, but I'm tired and lazy. Not like I have a longtime account to delete since I coincidentally did that over a month ago for other reasons.

Do need to delete the one a I made a few weeks ago for NSFW shit. I'm sure Reddit will really miss having that 3 karma account.

[–] capnminus@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Sync for reddit pro for years, now using a browser for kbin.social.

[–] sjm@vlemmy.net 8 points 1 year ago

I used apollo, but I've not been on it since the protests started. Not going back to Reddit either now

[–] farllen@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

I've used RIF for nearly 10 years. I can't stand the current state of the official app. It spends far too much time harassing you with useless notifications/info/recommendations for my taste and it's a laggy mess.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

This will be an insanely biased poll

[–] JunkMuffler@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have used Boost on Android for years.

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[–] amrawr@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Sync all the way

[–] NPVT@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rif. Working on understanding this ui

[–] AlexTheLost@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Currently? No I deleted my accounts, when I still had them though I used infinity

[–] sirvesa@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

RiF since I found Reddit so many years ago. I've tried others but they never stuck.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using Relay for maybe 10 years? It's a bit of an underdog and doesn't get spoken about a lot, but over the years I've tried a bunch of Reddit apps and Relay is the one I liked the most.

It used to be called "Reddit News" until Reddit cracked down on apps using "Reddit" in their name. Their rules changed to only allow "for Reddit" at the end of the name, so Reddit News became "Relay for Reddit", rif (Reddit is Fun) became "rif is fun for Reddit", etc.

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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 6 points 1 year ago

I used too. Paid for Apollo until Christian started spamming ads for ultra and went back on his word that subscriptions were only to cover ongoing costs like servers for notifications.

So I went to ReddPlanet. Who’s also shutting down.

I haven’t been on Reddit in about a week though. I’m not too keen on the lemmy devs stances politically and will probably move to kbin when the documentation and setup gets fleshed out better.

[–] Cylinsier@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Relay. The official app can go fuck itself.

[–] Mr_Grumpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

When I was using Reddit, I used RIF.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no way this poll is accurate. Just looking at the Play Store the official app has 100M+ downloads. The bext closest, rif, has 5M+. I think people underestimate how many casual users go straight to the official app and don't care about any of this is.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I also thought there is probably not that many people... BUT your comment made me actually think otherwise. RIF's 5% is actually huge!! And that is just one app; we don't even know how many are using FOSS apps through F-droid... so I'd say the third-party app ecosystem is probably very, very big, I'd say easily at least 30 % of mobile users are third-parties.

How many millions of users actually installed the official app and went "oh, god, nope", or found out about better apps later on... I'd say that is also pretty big. And not happening the other way around.

So, pure speculation here, but this is probably Reddit's desperate move to change a very possibly growing tendency of third-party app users.

[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind that rif has been around since 2010, and the official app launched in 2016. I think the opposite is true, anecdotally I've noticed discussion of 3PA has gone down in the past 5 years. People used to talk about it all the time, I didn't hear much until this controversy. Most redditors are not power-users, I don't think many of them would know what F-Droid is let alone use it. I'd personally guess that 3PA usage is under 10%.

I think this change was mainly sparked by cracking down on AI scraping bots, and killing 3PA was a two-birds-one-stone side effect to prepare for their IPO.

[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

I was using rif for years, I don't see myself ever downloading the reddit app partly because it sucks but now I have a bad taste in my mouth after all this. If they had of just improved their own app and left the third party ones alone I probably would have used it.

[–] pete443@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

RIF for many years, switched to Infinity a year or two ago

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Well, I did. Now I don’t use Reddit at all. Apollo.

[–] Rain@lm.melonbread.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was a big fan of RedReader.

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[–] konki@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Infinity until I deleted my Reddit account in connection with the protests. Now I don't use Reddit at all.

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[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used Baconreader, Relay, and in 2014 got Sync pro and have used that ever since.

I stopped using reddit for the blackout and have been trying Jerboa and /kbin since then.

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[–] BuddhaBeettle@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't even know what a 3rd party app was until the protests (never used reddit on my phone to limit the amount of time spent there, and was never very tech savvy).
Left because of other reasons, like a couple mods of communities I love packing up and leaving and the sheer principle of it all.

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[–] flynnguy@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently? No, because I quit reddit.

But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.

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[–] PolySeaOfTrees@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I started with RIf for ten first few years and then switched over to Sync. I loved the customization that Sync provides

[–] Hellebert@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me for about 10 more days or so apparently.

Then it'll just be Jerboa on my phone because I refuse to reinstall that piece of crap official Reddit app entirely. If a Google search takes me to Reddit for an answer I'll just use my browser until they eventually kill that too probably.

[–] NRVulture@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apollo. So no more reddit for me when the app shuts down officially.

I wish Christian would made an Apollo-like app for the Fediverse.

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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

reddit is not fun anymore

[–] Sim@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 year ago

RIF was Reddit for me.

[–] xeedufk@terefere.eu 4 points 1 year ago

Still have Apollo installed to use it until the last day. Been using less and less thou in recent 1-2 weeks.

[–] HisNoodlyServant@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Boost is still my favorite. I'm done after the third party apps are gone. Going to block Reddit in my router to stop me on desktop haha.

[–] ironsoap@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

RIF user of many years. Pissed at Reddit. Although I see the financial motive for the API, the scumbag disingenuous moves have me believing it has jumped the social media shark and I had to move on.

Loved RIF, will miss the niches of Reddit, and this APIcalypse has opened my eyes to the deeper values of Reddit, but change is inevitable though.

[–] Mak@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago
[–] lodion@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

When I was using reddit, I used Boost.

[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did. Libreddit. Now Lemmy only. #FediFTW

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I used a 3rd party app for years until last week. The bridge is burned I'm not going back.

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