You might like StoryGraph better for that. I switched from Goodreads because I got sick of all the social aspects of the site. I just want to keep track of what I’ve read and update it so I get a Spotify Wrapped like experience for books—StoryGraph offers that.
Give Revolt a try if you want something that feels like Discord without all the bloat.
Check out Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. There’s a version on Steam to support the developers, but you can download the executable for free from their website just like DCSS.
I switched away from Sync to Boost some years ago, but would happily switch back for a Fediverse app. Jerboa is okay, but it doesn’t have the slick look I’ve come to expect from reddit apps like Sync and Boost.
Yes the devs need to work on the multireddit feature that reddit themselves abandoned.
The spez articles are gross, especially the interview on The Verge. He’s clearly salty at Christian Selig for building an app that iOS users prefer over the default reddit app. He rails against developers making millions on reddit’s content. But its not reddit making the content. Reddit is a content aggregator. Stop aggregating your content there. Stop consuming it there. Reddit dies without its power users.
I’m a 38-year-old woman who has been playing games since she was five years old. The myth that women don’t play and enjoy games is a long-running one.
I love how many of the subreddits are going dark for this protest. The community IS reddit. It is NOT the assholes who took VC-backed money to fleece crypto bros out of money. It’s idiotic. I hope everyone understands that you can find quality discussions in the fediverse and leaves reddit accordingly. They’re not the gatekeeper of good conversation online.
I really think Lemmy and the Fediverse achieve the original reddit vision better than the VC-funded bullshit reddit has become. I’ve only been in this little fediverse for this weekend and already it feels like the beginnings of reddit did, back in 2008 and 2009.
15-year reddit veteran here. Spez thinks us old-timers are freeloaders for continuing to prefer old.reddit and the third-party apps. The truth is, that site is dead and what Lemmy offers now is closer to that original vision than current reddit ever will be. Reddit is Dead. Long live Lemmy.
Reddit doesn’t want to have people browsing from Firefox because it’s one of the last privacy conscious browsers available on mobile. They’d rather block you from using the service entirely than allow you to do what they call ‘freeloading’—accessing the site without viewing ads or becoming infinitely trackable through the use of their data-sucking app.
People need to understand that this is about tracking your eyeballs. Reddit viewed on a webpage does not provide the metadata they want. What metadata does the app provide? Things you wouldn’t think about wanting as a human, but the aggregate is very valuable.
Stuff like how long did you watch that video Ad? Where did you click on screen and at what time? What content were you viewing and what course of action did you take to get there? Web viewing only shows the landing page you arrived on reddit from and the exit page that took you away from reddit. Performing these actions in the app provides metadata cookie crumbs like a trail of roach shit to every single thing you’ve done on reddit in micro activities.
The forum feature feels half-baked when you have to click through bots to even access the knowledgebase. IDK. I’m old school and from an era of the internet where chat interfaces where chat interfaces and forums were kept separate. I don’t appreciate the threading in Discord because it makes past conversations harder to follow, not easier for me.
Honestly I hope this implosion gives more people a push to move discussion somewhere that isn’t monetized so heavily with awards, NFTs, and other crypto junk.
That’s inevitably what happens when you get a call from your VC backers asking why you’re still bleeding money into a pit instead of milking the community for profit.
The over reliance on Discord has made me give up participating in some reddit communities, too. It sucks to start a discussion only to be told by regulars That its frequently discussed in the Discord and I should look there.
No. Discord is IRC 2.0, not forums for preserving convos like reddit and lemmy.
I only saw one sarcastic answer. Did he actually say anything of substance?
This is the one I’m excited about. I switched from Sync to Boost and never went back as a redditor.