Seems that someone at Reddit decided to grant read access to RIF, this morning I opened the app just for kicks and it wouldn’t load anything. Well I tried again after lunch (Europe CET time) and it could access the front page but I was logged out. Trying to login shows a different logon page and even with valid credentials gives out a ‘Bad request’ response.
That means they are not just feeling the heat, they are probably burning really bad.
I’m curious why you would go back? I’m totally happy on Lemmy. There are some growing pains but it’ll get better and I think there’s already plenty of content. Lemmy doesn’t need as many users as Reddit, it just needs to hit a critical mass to have enough content to keep you busy and I feel like it’s already pretty much there.
Lemmy today and Lemmy a week ago are night and day! Content has already reached 2014 reddit levels of activity. Besides the different UI, I wouldn’t know I left.
Lemmy on 12 June was extremely sparse. Highest upvoted posts maybe had 50 votes and “active” and “hot” showed posts from up to 7 days prior. Now it’s so much better with the amount of activity.
I was here then as well. I created a new community, created a post, it got a random upvote. Turns out that simply making a post meant I made the front page of lemmy.world!
Each day the fediverse has gotten almost twice as busy as it was the day before. I feel like within another two weeks I’m not even going to miss reddit at all LOL.
I only joined about a week ago but I’ve noticed a big difference too. I regularly see threads with over 100 comments and that’s plenty of engagement for me. Since this is an open platform there’s no entity trying to hack our brains to maximize engagement and get you addicted, it can just be a healthy discussion for those who want it.
If you want something with a UI similar to Apollo as well, try wefwef, it looks just like the Apollo Reddit client but for lemmy instead. I’ve personally been using it since changing over to lemmy and it’s honestly so similar.
Most my reddit time was spent in gaming communities for specific games and lemmy seems to be lacking in that department currently
Oh I have no intention of going back, though I am actively avoiding engaging with Reddit at the minute. I mostly meant in terms of accepting a reddit thread link in a Google search sort of thing. I don’t intend to be an active participant again.
Oh I see. Yeah unfortunately there’s a lot of information that can only be found on Reddit. There are some questions I searched for and the only results with good answers were on Reddit. I think minimizing engagement is good enough
I’m still on both, on Reddit using a revanced modded copy of Sync for Reddit and I will use Sync for Lemmy when it launches. But I’m spending more time on Lemmy because it feels better here and the discussions are more interesting to me.
There are only 25% of my subscribed subreddits with equivalents on Lemmy right now, but with time that will grow and I expect I’ll drop Reddit entirely. Fuck them anyway.
Only reason I’m still browsing is because I was able to get Sync to still work with that mod, Sync is my version of Reddit and I said I’d stop using Reddit if I couldn’t use Sync so I found a way to use Sync still.