I posted a few weeks ago about how I didn’t feel like quitting reddit just yet. and, honestly, I still have a hard time not opening my phone every five minutes to check it.
but I decided to quit because I realized how much of a negative echo chamber it was. I couldn’t even mute certain words on the reddit app so I had to keep seeing the same shit over and over again in the popular feed.
it’ll be a long road moving from one platform to another, but I’m pretty satisfied not being strangled by reddit’s overwhelming snark and negativity.
dunno if anyone here feels a similar way, but felt like sharing my thoughts.
What helped me and my phone habits was the loss of Apollo during the API fiasco, and the immediate emergence of voyager, allowing me to simply replace the “check reddit feed” habit with “check lemmy feed”.
Plus, since lemmy is less algorithms (and users) there isn’t much urge to doomscroll.
I am on Lemmy only now because of the Luigi censorship, but I used Narwhal on Reddit since before the API fiasco and after I was happy to pay for Narwhal to keep the increasing enshittification at bay. Now I use Apollo with Lemmy and it is like the old days on Reddit, and very similar to the Narwhal experience, but with less content. We all just have to make the posts and feel assured that we will not be overrun by bots and corporate overlords.
I’m in the same boat from Reddit Is Fun, and I went with Sync, which in hindsight was a bad idea. Sync’s creator abandoned it after getting an influx of donations. I’ll have to find a new Lemmy browser soon as many of the year old formatting templates are outdated.
Voyager is nice. vger.app
My personal favorite is Boost but it hasn’t seen an update in quite awhile. Thunder is the leading contender to replace Boost if it doesn’t update soon. Thunder is seeing very active development and has a ton of customization options to suit your needs. There are several options out there now though. Probably worth trying them all.
Me irl too! Voyager replacement is the real deal, and I only search reddit for historical information (although less often than I used to)
New user here, that just came over because of the Voyager app. Do you know if it’s made by the same person/people that made the Joey app for reddit? Similar logo/mascot and layout, my favorite part of Joey was the color coded parent/reply comments which is so much useful imo.
I just did the sign up and am having an easy time subscribing to similar communities I was browsing on reddit, and tbh I’m happy to just have an app to scroll thru memes and see updates on news stories without the constant raging and not knowing how many real people are behind the 500 comments of one post. It really does feel like what reddit was for me when I started browsing there over a decade ago on my shitty laptop, well before I ever got an app