Bye Reddit

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So as the title says, I feel like I can't 100% leave Reddit till there is somewhat more community & content in the Fediverse alternative. Don't get me wrong I feel the Fediverse is a wonderful idea that could be a great replacement for Reddit as well as other mainstream media but how do I move across if most of the content as well as active posters are on Reddit?

If you still have access to your account, screenshots of the last “offending” post or comment would be great. https://lemmy.world/c/banhammered

Reddit thanks itself:

Nice fellows over there.

Reddit is facing a crisis both in its user base and its finances. After protests and backlashed ravaged the platform in the wake of Reddit opting to charge for access to its API, the company’s valuation has been sliced.

TechCrunch reports that the Blue Chip Growth Fund at Fidelity, a major financial services provider, has reduced its estimates of Reddit’s holdings following an already poor estimate earlier this spring. Fidelity now estimates that Reddit’s holdings could be around $US15.4 million as of May 31, which is down over 7% from the fund’s estimates of $US16.6 million from this past April. This new figure is is also a reported 45.4% slide since Reddit secured Series F funding in August 2021, when an asset manager acquired the platform’s shares for $US28.2 million.

Reddit did not immediately return Gizmodo’s request for comment on the valuation.

Hi lemmings, did anyone make the effort to gather a list of (major) Reddit communities and their equivalent on Lemmy? Some obviously just kept their name (hail anime_titties, which is NOT what you think it is :)), but with others I cannot seem to find similar communities in Lemmy. If anyone knows of such a list I would be much obliged, especially anything that would be frontpage material. Cheers! Edit Found https://sub.rehab/

The API changes has taken effect. The third party apps we love and will miss are now dead. Twitter burns, Reddit is crumbling, Facebook fizzles, Tumblr fades to obscurity and the metaverse failing before it even takes off. The internet we grew to love and live in has suffered a great blow. And while we lament, we grieve and we wish it weren’t so, the inevitable is here. We must face the cards we are dealt with.

But reddit and these social media is not the end. The community is on the move. Off to greener, freer pastures. Off to places where the grip of corporate greed could not touch. There, people from all walks of life try to build something, to begin anew and make homes for themselves.

My voice may be drowned out among many. I may be but one anonymous user on the internet, but it is my hope that my sentiment is shared by many- that I am not alone in wishing, hoping to spread this plea and appeal.

As we migrate away from reddit, I and hopefully many others will join the call, the humble request for developers both old and new to consider building apps and contributing their talents to the fediverse.

Help me, help us, the community, as we trudge through the hill of infancy once more. As the day or two after reddit rolls, we hope to strengthen your resolve as we humbly ask your consideration in developing apps, or contributing to the community by sharing your expertise in UI, code, tech and more.

All this in the hope of building better alternatives, better homes, and a better internet not just for ourselves but our children and their children.

Corny? Yes. But it is my hope to rouse your creative spirit once more. Build the apps you want, teach those who are willing if you want, create the content that you want or provide your inputs in the development of the fediverse as a whole- anything, just so that we might, through a collective united community effort create something greater than what we have, here and now.

A little too late perhaps? Or just a damage control measure? Worse, they expect users once again to test their tools for FREE. The sheer audacity.

Excerpt from the article

“ According to the r/blind team, Reddit invited the moderators to test the accessibility improvements a few hours before they were announced.

"What they're asking [us] to do is essentially something that you would contract someone to do this work," Carver said. "It's not the community's responsibility to make things accessible. It's not a well-intentioned developer's responsibility to do that. That is Reddit's responsibility."

Read more at: https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/2023-07-01/reddit-says-new-accessibility-tools-for-moderators-are-coming-mods-are-skeptical

As an iOS user, I was disheartened to see that there’s no app for Lemmy in the app store. Someone pointed me to wefwef.app by /u/driftingDeep. It’s surprisingly easy to install.

1. Go to https://wefwef.app
2. Click the share button.
3. Click add to home screen.
4. Use like any normal app.

Posting this in case it helps others who were confused as I am the first time around.

But at least I discovered the joy of what it was to be a part of the reddit community, even if for just a year.

Apollo and developer Christian Selig were rallying points for the protests across Reddit this month. After Selig said he would have to shut down Apollo because it would cost him around $20 million per year to keep the app going, other developers said they would have to close up shop, too. Thousands of subreddits said they would go dark in protest — many people prefer third-party apps to Reddit’s official ones. Reddit, however, hasn’t budged, and many apps will be going away before July 1st.

Read more at:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780130/reddit-third-party-apps-saying-goodbye-apollo-rif-boost-sync-baconreader