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did the algorithm get better or did lemmy just get more populated? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems like the feeds are more active and I'm not hitting things with 3 upvotes 20 minutes into my scroll. Did Connect change something, did Lemmy or are we just seeing some population increase from Boost?

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Relay for Reddit just started requiring a paid subscription, so a lot of people are jumping ship.

I think it was the last free 3rd party app left.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The last 3rd party app that is still holding its ground is infinity. It's a great app but a lot of users are telling the developer to just stop supporting Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boost for Reddit quietly still works for moderators but the app is probably now unmaintained with all development effort (one guy) going towards the Lemmy version

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Boost still works fine for me though some bugs are there. Downloading videos isn't working properly and uploading images to posts is broken.

But then again, any app is better than the official one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The official app is so terrible. I'll probably still check reddit occasionally using redreader once boost for reddit finally dies but it'll be a tiny fraction of my previous use. You'd have to pay me to use the official app.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Infinity has been subscription only for a month now. Unless you take the code and put in your own api key if you can still get it, you're not using it for free

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

RedReader gang

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My dear Relay 😢. Relay for Reddit is dead, long live Relay for Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RedReader is a thing. But the UX is kinda bad, and it's probably only a matter of time before reddit kills that as well or it goes paid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are supposed to keep it around for accessibility.

Supposed being the most important word here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's like google keeping mozilla firefox to not be technically a browser monopoly.

Keeping one ugly app for accessibility just to say that they also care for the community of disabled /accessibility challenged people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same here with "Now for Reddit" i want to ween off Reddit from desktop as well but a lot of niche gaming communities are dead here on lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's why I'm here. I mean, I was already using Lemmy since the whole api thing started earlier this year, but since my reddit app was still working I wasn't spending much time here.