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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

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[–] Onlycats@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was using Bacon Reader for Android for the last 10 years. For me it was the only way of using Reddit. I'm now checking Lemmy. I hope we can build a vibrant community here. I'm not coming back to Reddit.

[–] popemichael@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RiF being killed was the last straw for me and Reddit.

They just don't care so long as they are making money. I was doxxed twice last year thanks to two different user on a fandom I moderated. They didn't care that I was openly DOXed, pretty much them saying that it wasn't their problem.

They just don't care about people, just how much trouble they will get in and how much money is to be made.

So this whole "only money matters" ideal is a symptom of a larger issue that is going to get worse.

[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI, you can patch RiF with Revanced to use your own OAuth token. I did it, and it works, but I'm not actually using it anymore/haven't been to reddit for a while.

I just did it as more of a "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" thing than anything else.

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

I deleted RiF and removed all shorcuts and icons that lead to reddit

I'm going with a mixture of cold turkey and "out of sight, out of mind"

Thankfully lemmy helps.

[–] RandomUserName@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar for me but, Apollo. Reddit was only tolerable because of Apollo, and now that it’s gone, I am too. wefwef is quite close to it though. Im enjoying it so far.

[–] SQL_InjectMe@partizle.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wefwef is amazing, how can someone make it so quickly while the reddit app sucks?

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago

Wefwef is a labor of the love and passion of its creator. I'm guessing the Reddit app devs are burned out and constantly getting requests like "How can we integrate Blockchain into the app?" and "Is it possible to add ads to the comment section?"

[–] SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also a fellow ex-Bacon Reader user, same deal. So far I'm using Connect for Lemmy to try to get a similar feel, what app are you using?

[–] CognizantPotato@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is the closest I have tried to the Bacon Reader experience.

[–] Onlycats@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Jerboa. Its good and its very similar to Bacon Reader. I'm just missing the bacon reader setting "hide read posts" and the hability to swipe to navigate and read posts.

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Connect has both ;)

[–] cie6868@bucketology.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Liftup, which is somewhat close to BaconReader too. Couldn't use Jerboa due to it not connecting to lemmy.world at the time I joined.

Tried wefwef too and it's great, but the iOS-adjacent UX is not right for me.

[–] venusenvy47@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's the app I used exclusively. Have you found a Lemmy app that is similar? I've tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff, but I'm still looking for something comparable to BaconReader.