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Alien Blue is the pre-enshittification official Reddit app right?
Yeah. Basically the proto-official app. Apollo was (allegedly) inspire by AlienBlue, but I’m not sure if that’s just a rumor or not. People called it the spiritual successor during Apollo’s whole run.
It is and it was my go-to app for iOS. I was very excited when it got bought by Reddit because it was a really good app, but it slowly turned into shit over time. It didn’t respect my subreddit subscriptions and it eventually showed more ads.
I didn’t notice at first, but I decided to try out Apollo because people pointed out what’s happening to the official app (formerly Alien Blue). I immediately felt the difference, so I uninstalled the official app. It’s crazy how Reddit was able to turn it into an ad-fest sneakily.
The reddit official app also eat battery, that why i switch a few years back to apollo.
o7
Lmao I have the exact same folder on my phone!
Ok, why? Why not uninstall?
Ah, it can be nostalgic for some people
I managed to get Apollo working with my own API key using a tweak and Sideloadly (works on jailed phones too)
We’ll see if that continues working after 30th, if not I think I’m pretty much done with Reddit
It will, but they’ll probably start sending you invoices for whatever requests you make.
Well, they’ve said 100 requests per minute is under the free tier, since I’m the only user with my API key that should be within their limits.
Apollo isn’t working as of now???
Regular Apollo still works for now, I’ve got the modified version on a backup iPhone 8 so let’s see if it still works there after the shutdown
Didn’t Reddit acquire Alien Blue and make it into the official app?
yes
And absolutely ruined it, of course
Yea I remember at first everyone was so excited and then they decided to absolutely destroy what made that app good.
I feel badly because I preferred the native app. I tried several 3P apps including Apollo but I never could get into it. I’m still here instead of Reddit because I don’t like the changes but i any case I feel a bit of guilt around it
I hereby order you to stop feeling guilty!
Life is too short to feel guilt over app preferences. And anyone who purposefully tries to make you feel guilty should go out and touch grass (as the youth say).
You damn youth, go touch somebody else’s grass!
touch. Touch. TOUCHTOUCHTOUCH!
“Dang kids! Get off my lawn!”
RiF golden platinum for me.
But the dev of RiF says he intends to make a Lemmy is Fun app once RiF shuts down, so at least it’s not a bas thing after all.
I’m enjoying jerboa, but I would totally pay for the RiF premium experience. It kept me happy for so many years. Hope for both to succeed.
I think this is what Lemmy and other Fediverse sites need - a really good mobile app. once that happens, I think Lemmy, kbin, etc will start really attracting users.
ngl Jerboa isn’t that bad.
It got much better with the two recent updates. Images still sometimes spaz out when you scroll, and for whatever reason searching for communities doesn’t seem to work right. But for reading, commenting, etc it’s totally usable.
It should be called “Lemmy is more fun”
Same here, can’t wait for lemmy is fun!
Same. I will gladly give the dev money again for a premium product like RiF golden plat.
Where did you see that? It seems that he wanted to do a Tildes app, he talked about Lemmy?
Deleted my account, deleted the app! My thumb keeps looking for it on my phone, though. Poor little thumb, probably misses his old simpsons shitposts
Same, it’s been hard it’s like I’m in rehab. But in a way it’s great too. I’ve been doing other stuff. Like started learning to make video edit with Davinci. For all the Apex gameplay footages I’ve stored over the years.
The muscle memory is so bad. I had to hide RedReader after I found myself subconsciously opening it over and over again. The toilet breaks are not the same…
I won’t be deleting it yet, they’ve got the accessibility exception for now.
The thumb thing is real. It’s like muscle memory every time I unlock my phone.
Sync is/was a fantastic app. One of the best designed and functioning Android apps I’ve used. Damn shame.
To account for muscle memory, I just created a folder where Reddit used to be, and made Lemmy the first entry. Good way to test multiple apps regularly.
I just replaced Sync with Jerboa.
Same here, decent enough start for the app so far
Yeah, and the things that I’ve noticed as being broken are actively being worked on (you can just look at the GitHub commits and code reviews and follow along since it’s open source)
Yep sync is truly incredible, The fluidity of the app was truly something else
Agreed. I deleted Boost off of my phone, and because it’s early in the alphabet I’d open my App Drawer most times to get to it
Now I just muscle-memory open my calculator and look disappointed.
The Sync dev has stated that Sync for Lemmy might become a thing one day, so there’s good news on that front.
Lets hope so ✌✌
I’d pay for that
You mean we don’t have simpson shitposting here? https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E03/QF76_L_CplCQuXur7Rqpj-nesvU=.gif
We do now! Simpsons shitposts-
but now we need futurama shitposts!
I’m ashamed with myself that I fell for it :(
I made my own, with blackjack and hookers, actually without the blackjack or the hookers, just the community.
Very sad!
I uninstalled Slide For Reddit and put jerboa in the same place
I haven’t seen many people that used slide. That was my go to on android.
I have been using Infinity, which somehow is NOT planning on shutting down?? Yeah, I don’t see how that’s gonna work. Doesn’t matter, Reddit under Spaz is dead to me now.
Yeah, I used Infinity too. Deleted my reddit account yesterday and uninstalled Infinity today.
I hope the Infinity developer finds a job…
Ye, last time I’ve they’re looking for a junior software dev position
Ive heard some rumors that it is possible to fake the app ID and/or useragent to make reddit servers think youre using their app.
I hope he will try that route just to fuck with them.
I did see something about that in the ReVanced subreddit and the Sync app.
Sounds like a short term solution, but it’s worth it just to cause Spaz some grief.
I’ll miss Infinity. Jerboa just isn’t ad intuitive as Infinity, as nice as it is.
Yeah, I hope they make a version for Lemmy
RIF RIP
That’s the same Apollo icon that I use.
Has anyone tried Mlem yet, specifically with this server? Refuses to connect for me.
I use it with lemmy.world. Its promising, it still has a lot of crashes and some kinks that need to be ironed out and there are many features missing, but IIRC the team intends to come out with the 1.0 version by the time 3rd party apps shut down. That will probably feel more stable. Its looking good!!
Hasn’t been working for me either. Just says I logged in, then that it can’t connect.
Yeah, to me, Apollo and Reddit went hand in hand. Without Apollo, no good Reddit.
