Today’s the last day for most third-party Reddit apps before they shut down indefinitely. I’ve been on Apollo from its inception and alien blue before that. Countless F5s, comments, “war chests”, ups, and downs during that time.

These apps and r/Gunners are the reasons why I became a “Redditor” in the first place. I really hate what’s going on with the platform now, how greed is seemingly at the forefront of any decision. How the app is becoming less and less about the users and their contents but more and more about squeezing said users out of every quid (avatars, coins/gold, ads, etc).

I know it’s going to be hard to stop getting on Reddit since it’s become such an ingrained part of my daily routine (would literally just whip out my phone and refresh the sub every so often daily) but I’ve decided after today I’ll start to wean myself off it.

The plan going forward is to just check the sub on my PC/Laptop and at least try to use Lemmy as a mobile replacement. I know that’s going to be hard initially as the community here, whilst comfy and nice; is still only a tiny fraction of the sub hence an understandably lower level of activity comparatively. It’s silly season after all, aren’t we all anticipating the latest updates even if they’re just what we know but worded slightly differently, as infuriating as it may be?

I’m very happy to see that we’ve carved out a space for ourselves here, and how it isn’t just dead after like a week. Let’s try to make this place as active as we can! Post whatever you deem to be interest and we can all shit on/praise it in the comments together. On the sub I’ve always been a commenter but I’m trying to make an effort and post any tweets/updates from notable sources here to keep activity levels up. I’m very glad to see some familiar names becoming regulars already, which is nice! Makes this place feel more and more like a true r/Gunners alternative.

Anyway, guess I’m done here with my little ramble. It’s been a weird week… 🦀🦀🦀

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m very interested to see what happens when the apps close down. If that shift to Lemmy that people here sense will happen will actually occur.

I know many people that are just going to stop using Reddit after their app shuts down, but I don’t know if they will replace that with a threadiverse alternative.

[–] little_niggle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Always felt that since it was never officially endorsed by the r/Gunners mod on the sub, a lot of people simply aren't aware of this place.

The ones that are, might be put off by the onboarding process - which isn't exactly straightforward nor user friendly... For reddit, it's sign up -> search for community -> start participating. Whereas here on Lemmy its like: choose an instance -> sign up (wait for approval, if needed) -> log in (some might encounter the dreaded spinning circle) -> search for community (might not show up if the other instance is unfederated) -> participate.

The ones that have made it still complain about how this site feels outdated, too barebones, "like a website from 2008", etc.

Guess in the meantime while we wait for updates to the platform we'll just do what we do best; shitpost, give our uninformed hot takes and in your case create high-quality poorly drawn art!

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah my hope is that the onboarding process here is simpler than the onboarding was from Twitter to mastodon.

On mastodon it was hard to find community or people that shared the same interests. It’s inherently built into it here because you are following topics and not people.

I hope that makes adoption here better than it was on mastodon and I think also once there are apps are released that look better than the site does that should also help.

[–] little_niggle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just found out yesterday about this wefwef for Lemmy app, if anyone here’s an Apollo user you’ll feel right at home.

Have a look: https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’ve liked that one. I personally really like Memmy. There’s been almost nightly updates to it as well. I’m convinced the developer doesn’t sleep.

[–] thatdosbox@mstdn.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@little_niggle @poorlydrawnarsenal I think it's best to give people the signup link (i.e. https://lemmy.world/signup) for a server where there's a community they're interested in. Removing the analysis paralysis of figuring out which server to join goes a long way to encouraging people to give it a go.

[–] little_niggle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was actively promoting this place during the early days, but I didn’t want to risk spamming the sub or annoy people…

Think the way to go now is if the r/Gunners Reddit mods create an official pinned post or add it to the sidebar then perhaps we’ll see a higher influx.

For now we’re still seeing day on day growth, which is encouraging!

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, a fair few people have already left. This caused some complications for one of the subs I moderate, as the absence of those people skewed a poll and let the nay-sayers get their way with basically no further protesting to the reddit overlords.

I don't understand how some redditors can just roll over for this.

[–] poorlydrawnarsenal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think we are drawn to the familiar. It’s easier to deal with what we know then to figure out what we don’t (Lemmy, instances, etc)

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same here, it's honestly kinda depressing when I deleted everything. Ironically making me use Twitter a lot more which isn't great either, but that's where the journalists post shit.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most of the responses on the r/gunners thread that pointed out today is the end of this party apps were very disappointing, but not at all surprising.

I'm really happy to see some people migrating here. Let's ramp this puppy up and build an active gunners community of our own!

[–] little_niggle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Can’t lie, it’s pretty disheartening. But what can we do? Let’s try our best to nurture this place :)

[–] Eabryt@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Well said. Obviously the Sub is huge to me. Like you said, I don't plan on installing the official Reddit app on my phone, so I'll still be doing my job when I'm on my computer (which to be fair is incredibly often), but I downloaded a Lemmy app yesterday and that will be my alternative when I'm on my phone.

[–] alfons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's Emiliano Viviano!

[–] Gingerrific@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Took my 2011 Jetta in for service and I'm told it's $5k to fix it. I kinda figured the rear brakes needed replacing but there are so many issues with it and I'm kind of lost.

I'm probably going to end up selling the car and buying new, but I was hoping for another year or two out of it. Oh well.

Just have to make sure I don't impulse buy the first car put infront of me.

[–] throbbingpens@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh all the best car shopping! Sad that you’re sort of forced to do it but also it sounds exciting.

[–] MHPengwingz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is jerboa crashing for anyone? I updated two days ago, first it wasn't loading other communities and now it's just crashing.

[–] ironeaglebird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you updated Jerboa past 0.0.34 it's going to keep crashing until lemmy.world is able to update their servers when the 0.18.1 Lemmy update is released.

I suggest trying the Liftoff app. I switched recently and I have not had any more problems.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't even log into jerboa. It tells me something like "server version is too old" for every single server/account I've tried to use. Not at all impressed with that app.

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would y'all wanna do an FPL when the new season rolls around?

[–] alfons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I would absolutely be interested

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds good.

[–] throbbingpens@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just bought Returnal for PS5 and I’m excited to play it! I love roguelike games.

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's that roguelike about? Been a while since I've found a good roguelike, but Demoncrawl has sustained me for a good while now.

[–] throbbingpens@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I haven’t started it yet, so I can’t give you details. The premise is an astronaut ends up on a strange planet stuck in a time loop.

[–] threeLetterMeyhem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't soccer, but is that the guy who got an AR tattooed on his leg?

[–] throbbingpens@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It probably is not, although I don’t know what tattoos this guy has.

[–] threeLetterMeyhem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I was thinking of Raheem Sterling. That'll teach me to comment when browsing All :P

[–] throbbingpens@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, it’s the free talk thread! You are welcome here. Actually even otherwise. We’d love to have more fans of Arsenal Football Club.

[–] Eabryt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bought tickets to the West Ham match on Boxing Day. Which is also the same day we arrive in London, so that's going to be a lonnnngggg day.

[–] throbbingpens@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Long and fun!

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