Indefinite Blackout: Next Steps, Polling Your Community, and Where We Go From Here
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On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced a policy change that will kill essentially every third-party Reddit app now operating, from...

If that fucker thinks they can just chill and wait until we come back crawling, they’ve got another thing coming…

  • sogekek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    07·
    1 year ago

    switch to the native app. It’s better. Tried the third party apps they are not better than the native app

    • Dr_Cog@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Relay since 2013, before the official app existed. It is better than the official app in every way: it’s UI is cleaner, it’s quicker, it’s easier to follow comment threads and sort them, etc. Not to mention that there are no “sponsored” posts (ads) and banner apps every other post or comment…

      How is the first party app better, exactly?

    • ki77erb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If the native app was better, you wouldn’t have millions of users using 3rd party apps. Apollo alone had 1.5 million users.

      • sogekek@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        you can definitely stop using reddit once the 3rd party app goes dowb btw reddit native app has more than that so either use that or tell your third party creators to pay the money