Choose wisely

Reddit is fun croaked for me last week, now I'm all Lemmy!

Unless lemmy crashes, then I lurk reddit signed out with browser.

As the crashes and maintenance here become less frequent and the platform is more reliable I'm ready to leave reddit in the dust entirely

Lemmy doesn't crash, the .world server does. Just use a smaller instance like lemmy.zip or lemm.ee
- I'm clearly not understanding this platform as well as I thought, I should probably watch a video or something!
  The memes and boobs are great, but I'd love to get more reliable news and local information, seems like every Canadian one dies or is unpopular (fair enough given the limited user base which is still kind of nice)
  And the news + politics seems to crash, but that's because I'm still using .World ...I think?
- Only reason I use lemmy.world is for community discoverability. Until subscriber counts are federated, it only shows the amount of subs on your instance, and on average the most subs are on lemmy.world. I have a backup alt for when lemmy.world is down
- Jerboa, the official lemmy app, crashes in a new way every update.
Haven't visited reddit since the API gate. Deleted my account instantly, I miss nothing
I went back to reddit out of boredom a couple of days ago while lemmy.world was doing it's thing. It dawned on me how shitty things have gotten there over the years. It's more active, sure but the comments sections are full of hot garbage 99% of the time unless you're in a small community. And the sheer quantity of comments basically guarantees you won't be seen or responded to unless you appeal to lowest common denominator bs.
The engagement you get here is much higher quality. It isn't nearly impossible to have a real conversation and get deep about any given topic. I miss my hobby subs and go back every now and then for those but I'm otherwise all in on lemmy

I've made my choice

I even tried being a good little product and subjected myself to using the official reddit app.

Absolute worst experience with an app I've ever had. Honestly couldn't even use reddit now even if I wanted to.

Same. I went back for r/place and to comment a few more "fuck u/spez" in posts, and it's hilarious how bad the app still is. Still slow. Videos randomly won't play. There are even times when all you can do when tapping the video is see a still image of it and can't even get into the post/thread. They just really don't give a fuck about the app except as a vehicle for ads. Smh.
Relay for reddit works. It's what I'm using to browse reddit.
I mean, old.reddit.com exists… for now anyways.

Yeah the Lemmy apps are lightning fast compared to the official Reddit app. I'm really giving up on Reddit soon.

What is your preferred lemmy app?
- Sync is so smooth and responsive... and also the one only one with proper tablet support afaik
  Voyager is also great. Was using that earlier.
- For iOS memmy, for android voyager, connect, or sync. Mlem and voyager are also good on iOS but neither are developed as fast as memmy
- I use Thunder :)
- im liking voyager rn

Use Lemmy and third party Reddit app while waiting for third party Reddit app to go dark. Then just use Lemmy

Which 3fd party Reddit App is still working?
- Last I knew, Relay was switching to a subscription model, though I don't know if that's the one they were referring to.
Then make an account or two and go all in on Lemmy.

Oh look it's this tired meme that was just posted 15 minutes earlier

Yes, it is.

I just uninstalled RIF, I was keeping it just because. I tried to open it and nothing loaded, anyway, it has been lemmy only for me since july.

I don't know what happened to my rif app, but mine disappeared from my phone without me deleting It.
- If you have a Samsung, their OS will remove apps after so long without being used. There's an option to turn that off, which I do after it cleans out all the Samsung junk that I won't use.

Sync made the switch so much more bearable!

When the jerboa was crashing right after opening it. That was a better experience than using the official Reddit app. And since 99% of my time on Reddit was spent on mobile devices, I‘m not going back there.