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Reddit API changes are imminent. Here’s what’s happening to your favorite apps [Updated] (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think people are open minded about migration, but this place is not exactly a warm welcome to new users. For every 1 person that comes and stays, I’d estimate that 5 do not.

It’s frustrating to navigate, it’s not straightforward on how everything works, the differences between “magazines, people, and threads” is not spelled out…how the fediverse is integrated.

Without a coherent and cohesive redesign and or some polished mobile apps to bring it together, it’s futile and wasting the momentum given to it imo.

Coming from Apollo and using Reddit for 15 years, as a tech savvy person, I can say with certainty that the average person (specifically Reddit user) won’t make it much past creating an account. Maybe Christian could work on something for the fediverse. I’d pay for a polished mobile app if he released one.

The hard part for me over the past couple of days is the familiarity, yet completely different way things work.

  • I still don’t know how to see only things I’m subscribed to.

  • still not receiving notifications

  • still having issues searching for and finding new topics etc.

Been only on mobile though, which is very much the likely reason. And the same reason that most people will not stay. It’s not the lack of groups and content. It’s the ease at which they can jump into it. The easier it is (for a mobile user), the more people will come, and the niche forum content will organically arise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I would suggest giving https://wefwef.app/posts/sh.itjust.works/all a try.

Apollo like experience, you can browse as a guest. If you want to login, it requires a Lemmy account rather than Kbin however.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can see you're on kbin, which as far as I have heard is unique in that it tries to unify lemmy and mastodon content. I'm unsure if that's a good idea, I'm not sure how you're meant to reconcile thread based link aggregation with microblogging feeds. Here on sh.itjust.works I have a set of options at the top of my feed that make it very easy to only see the content I've subscribed to. I'm honestly shocked to hear that it's not so simple for you on your instance.