So much stuff about so many topics in many different communities. Then it all went sour, and I’m now here.

The main things that made me like reddit were RES and Apollo (or Alien Blue before reddit bought it). I haven’t used non-RES reddit or the reddit app in so long because I never enjoyed them. Also thanks for reminding me to cancel my reddit Premium 🙃

I was a pretty simple user. I used Boost for Reddit, and I liked the different post views you could save for different Reddit’s or multireddits. Probably a few other things I’m not thinking of that I took for granted, too.

I’d like to see Jeroba improved more. Hopefully the “fancy” features from the reddit apps that are shutting down make their way into Jeroba in one form of another.

The blackout is making Lemmy boom now, but I think the real moment of truth will be the end of the month when the API actually closes. That’ll be the wake up call for a lot of the power users, some of which are developers, that yes, the apps are gone and they’re not coming back. They’ll have to find something else to spend their time on. Hopefully they choose Lemmy.

There are a couple of open source Reddit clients that have developers who will, very soon, suddenly have a lot more free time than they had before. We’re getting decent Lemmy engagement now, but I think Lemmy usage and Lemmy development are going to skyrocket at the end of the month.

Hi @Tamato, this is a good discussion topic, but we’re trying to keep discussion of Reddit to the megathread. Feel free to post this as a top-level comment there.