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Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
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Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#2I was an Apollo user, and when it shut down my usage dropped from "daily, whenever I'm standing in line or otherwise waiting" to "once or twice a month when I need to look something up."
It's been replaced by: HN, AP News, and the NYT.
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#3I totally abandoned it. Spend more time here, focusing on work, or offline
I don't miss it in the slightest, my mood has improved from less pedantry
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#4started using lemmy. But the community over there is so based
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#5I've abandoned it because larger and larger amounts of Reddit users seem to have become more insufferable over the last year or two.
That, and the mobile experience sucks.
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#6I miss some of the real communities that were there but I haven't been back. I may try Lemmy or go back to RES and a desktop browser.
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#7I was an Apollo user, and when it shut down my usage dropped from "daily, whenever I'm standing in line or otherwise waiting" to "once or twice a month when I need to look something up." It's been replaced by: HN, AP News, and the NYT.
Same here. I’ll visit if I’m searching for something, and there’s a responsive page, but otherwise I’ve quit it altogether.
I don’t feel like I’m missing anything except something to fill time when I’m bored. Instead I’ve mostly filled that time by reading books on the Kindle app.
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#8Had already “mostly” abandoned it a year or so ago but the changes were the final straw and I don’t think I’ve been back since (maybe once or twice when someone linked something).
Replaced with carrying my kindle around and reading more often, so it’s been a great change for me personally.
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#9Cut it drastically.
I am saving hours a week for vastly more productive and less irritating pastimes.
The quality dropped off so hard over the last decade anyways. It had long passed the point of 'more trouble than it's worth, really'; but losing Apollo, and spez's patronizing lies, made it easier to quit.
I used to really enjoy the site, before it got hollowed out by various scumbuckets at every level. It's sad to see how far it fell.
Re: Ask HN: How many of us have (nearly) abandoned Reddit over the API debacle?
#10I have reduced my usage of Reddit by 99%. Unfortunately, I still see it as the king of hyper local or hyper niche, but that’s mostly coming up in searches. The fediverse confusion didn’t help with offering viable options to those communities.