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if they said that about 3rd party apps 2 years ago i would never found Lemmy
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Its been 2 years already aye. I was so optimistic at the time. "Finally I'll be able to stop doom scrolling"
How innocent I was
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I actually continued to use a 3rd party app up until a few months ago. I created a Lemmy account when all that happened 2 years ago, but I didn't use it much. Glad to see it's been improved, well until recently finding out the creators of Lemmy support Russia.
That’s the beauty of an idea, though. The worst people can have good ideas and good people can benefit from them. In certain cases, they can use the ideas against the creator themselves. I just consider it a fact of life and avoid giving those people my money directly where possible.
Who cares? Lemmy is open. There's already many alternatives that are connected, mbin, piefed, etc.
Edit: I don't agree with their views, but this platform is now bigger than them, and they designed it to be that way. I have to respect that.
Yeah, it's disappointing to know some of the things the Lemmy devs support but this being a federated platform means you don't really have to be on Lemmy to interact with the posts and users here. Piefed and Mbin work just as well and are fully independent projects so you could try those instead.
It kind of makes that people with such strong/extreme views would have enough initiative to start it though. We need to remember that Lemmy development was going on for years before most us took notice.
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Red Reader is an open source, ad free, third party Reddit app that has been allowed to continue free use of the API due to its usage amongst the disabled community.
I've been using it for nearly a decade & continues to get ignored by folks for some reason.
It's also in the official Play Store, I believe.
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Cool, it’d be nice if spez dies in a fire.
that's the smile my friend gets when they've got their butt plug in..
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Hah. I got banned from /r/politics years ago for using that saying to a toxic rando.
That place was a shithole.
straight up propaganda network. same with /r/conservative - same with /r/interestingasfuck - same with just about any sub with more than a thousand subscribers. digg on fentanyl.
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fuck you! i got banned from about a dozen subreddits because i told someone on /r/conspiracy that they said something stupid.
Reddit let that sub be a global hub for dangerous anti-vaxx misinformation during the pandemic while going after everyone else. Made zero sense.
yeah, so it makes perfect sense to limit the people who point that out, right?
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This vibe reminds me of the Reddit I enjoyed back in 2010. No, we can't always be toxic af everywhere (sometimes it's a fun little treat), but at the same time, not everything needs to be a goddamn bubble-wrapped "safe space."
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The real story is buried in there:
Reddit is going to ask for a bit more identifying information from its users, too.
Yeah not going to happen.
This is a change from “we will keep it online forever” which is common for a pigboy
why does it matter once you've been banned for saying something and they won't tell you why and you can't appeal the decision?
they're actively moving users OFF of their platform.
It's what they did to me. They made up an excuse because I was critical of Musk.
huffman is both terrified and aroused by elon, it's fucking weird.
They're both accelerationists, which is a doomsday cult that wants to rule over the ashes of a world they help destroy.
Edit: And white supremacist Nazis. Can't forget that part.
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Scaroused
new word for the English language, and i'm sorry: humilijactulation
edit - i forgot to say i like yours more
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Old reddit has been mentioned.
He's definitely gunning on shutting it down
Doubt
When they say "people," does that mean, 1, 20, 8 million, or what? They will define it and I'm sure this is a way of saying they're getting rid of it so there isn't a grand exodus.
Yea this sounds like preparing to make excuses and claim "no one was using it" (aka less than 1 billion users). I'm expecting it to be removed in 2026.
I have no reason to believe tbis. Not that it matters to me.
old.reddit is literally the only thing that keeps me coming back. i hope they kill it. i'm sick of scrolling for ten minutes just to find a post worth clicking on. i've got netflix for shit like that.
I guess this does matter to me, because every time i see new reddit, I take the requisite 10 seconds to retype the URL and change to old reddit. I never log in anymore, but I do make sure its old reddit.
If I may say that I hope more people support Lemmy. We need to get away from Reddit and it will be difficult. I’m kinda new to Lemmy and I plan on donating.
Welp good bye old reddit
I'm still using old reddit, but I'm very excited about the return of Digg and partnership of Kevin Rose and Alex Ohanian. Hopefully that scares Huffman and somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aaron Swartz is smiling.
I only stayed on Reddit as long as I did because of Old Reddit. New Reddit simply isn't worth it.
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What a liar. I hope that pasty cat f***** suffers a slowly from feline AIDS. Seeing as he's the reason the feline population even caught it.
The only reason I'm here in the first place is because it's ridiculously obvious that they're killing old reddit soon. Every time they add some new bullshit feature it breaks our reddit just a little more and it becomes less and less usable. Meanwhile new reddit is also becoming less and less usable as they try to make it Facebook 2.0. It's all getting enshittified very quickly.
My copium is that the website was initially built in a way where they can’t delete old reddit without breaking it.
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