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How many of you use a 3rd-party app to browse Reddit?

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[–] Cowbob45@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

RiF for 9 years

[–] HisDufusness@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago
[–] rs5th@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I was using Apollo before... well... you know, everything.

[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, Infinity. Actually I used the official Reddit app until all of this hit the news. Then I deleted that app and switched to Infinity. When infinity goes, I'll delete it and I'm done with Reddit except on an alt account on my desktop. And that will just be for correspondence.

[–] TranceReduction@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Used Reddit is Fun. Obviously not anymore.

[–] irongamer@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Minty@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync, but I already got rid of it and my Reddit stuff.

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[–] offthecrossbar@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I used bacon reader for a couple years before switching to relay and staying there for like 10 years or something like that. Tried others here and there but always quickly went back to relay for one reason or another. I'll be sad to see it go

[–] j4yt33@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Currently, as in up until the blackout: yes, Baconreader. I used it so exclusively that I only really know reddit as BR shows it to its users and I felt uncomfortable and a bit confused on old and new web reddit. I missed all the "innovations" new Reddit brought, never knew what people were talking about when they mentioned avatars and apparently missed all chats that were ever sent to me because BR would only show messages and comment replies. So without BR, to me there will be no reddit, because I wouldn't be willing to invest time into getting to know reddits official app. One, because it looks absolutely terrible and two, because I'm tired being treated like this by big corporations. You want to shit all over your user base, you won't get any of my data or money any more. Simple as that

Such a useless poll

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never used a 3rd party app on reddit.

[–] Xenanthropy@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
[–] TimTheEnchanter@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apollo (and Alien Blue before that back in the day).

Not sure if the responses to the poll are skewed, but the vote suggests vastly different numbers than Reddit would lead you to believe

[–] icanflywheniwant@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Just wanted to ask if Lemmy has an iOS that is not in TestFlight or has its beta full.... Or should we just make one!

[–] purpledonkey@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Apollo for the past years that I've been on iOS and BaconReader before that on Android

[–] fell@ma.fellr.net 2 points 1 year ago
[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Sync for years, then when the dev had done one of his up-and-disappear-for-half-a-year's I switched to Boost. Now I just won't use Reddit.

[–] Larven@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

Sync, fantastic app.

[–] spacemanspiff@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Relay Pro (android) use to be the app I've used for reddit, but I uninstalled it at the start of the debacle and will not be returning to reddit for the foreseeable future due to the nature of what reddit has become. It is no longer a community lead platform and instead a thing owned by a larger company with leadership that just wants to make money off of the people who use it. I believe the fediverse to be the future of the community that made reddit what it was and that community should not be owned by any one company/organization. There will definitely be growing pains and decisions to be made here on how best to handle so many things, but I have confidence in the community that it will be sorted out and we will get through the growing panins. It will result in a much better platform that will help take us through to the next stage of worldwide community, connectedness, and information sharing.

[–] GeminiFrenchFry@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[–] LootGoblin42@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using boost for a while now. Just felt right for me.

[–] Jamsb@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used RIF for years. Originally I installed the official app, but it was so bad I sought out alternatives.

For desktop I used the old.reddit site (the redesign was terrible!) I genuinely don't know how people can use the new look desktop site.

[–] LegacyFlex@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I've exclusively used Relay for years until earlier this week. I've popped in a few times to see how things were going. According to my screen time usage app I've used Relay for under 10 minutes this week. Prior to that I was spending anywhere hour plus daily.

[–] Meilindis@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I've used Boost for years.

[–] TheBladeRoden@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Using RIF until it throws errors at me

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I use Joey, a lesser known but very customizable app for reddit. But I've reduced my participation there.

[–] Valdair@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit is Fun back when I was on Android. Apollo once I moved to iOS. I will sorely miss Apollo.

[–] BiggestBulb@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I used Joey for about a year but since the blackout it's been uninstalled

[–] zettajon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I was a huge fan of Sync, the Material You implementation was the best on Android, bar none.

[–] ExoMonk@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Been on Reddit since 2009ish before they had an app. I used reddit is fun, baconreader, relay and then sync lasted the longest. When I moved to iOS I grabbed Apollo which was the closest experience to sync. I've been off Reddit for over a week now. Deleted my apps, deleted most of my accounts. There's some things I still miss that I haven't found replacement for, namely some niche discussions (wrestling, destiny 2) but I'm sure I'll find something.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

On Android I used boost and reddit is fun. On iOS I used Apollo. Haven't been browsing reddit, since then but did move to setting up an rss for two subreddits to use with feedly.

The two rss I set up being

http://teddit.net/r/buildapcsales/?api&type=rss http://teddit.net/r/gamedeals/?api&type=rss

Tied to at least lessen any benefit I might have to them by using a reddit front end to get feeds.

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