I remember when Reddit announced it would begin charging commercial developers for access to its API, and in response, thousands of subreddits went dark in protest. I think it lasted for a couple of weeks. The CEO threatened the Reddit mods that he would replace them if they didn’t reopen the subs, so nearly every mod reopened and everything went back to normal. The CEO won easily without offering anything, and he was right when he said that ‘this too shall pass.’ Those third-party apps offered accessibility features for disabled people that Reddit still hasn’t implemented today. Now Reddit is getting even worse. How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?
I dropped reddit cold turkey, then and there. Looking at my Lemmy account, joined June 22, 2023.
Every time I end up back on reddit for one reason or another, my skin absolutely crawls at what they’ve done to the site design. Been using alexandrite.app with Lemmy and quite happy with it.
I use Voyager and the main complain I have is that it doesn’t have push notifications. They said that it will be implemented but idk when.
Boost has push notifications, but it’s not very good at pushing them until you’ve opened the app… They don’t seem to come up when the app is in the background.
Ps. I haven’t touched reddit since the big ‘fuck spez’ movement. Moved here instead.