The Boost for Reddit app still worked for a while after the big shutdown with workarounds, like creating a mod account or using revanced.

Not anymore, as of today, the Boost for Reddit app is completely 100% dead now.

Goodbye reddit forever, hello lemmy

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I misread your title and thought you were saying that the Boost for Lemmy app was now dead. I’m glad I was mistaken.

  • SoWeDragonBallin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I came to see if there was any chatter on this… I have a feed but no comments load. ☹️ Are there any other options besides maybe (revanced) official reddit, if that’s still a thing?

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I believe a few apps got exceptions, but I don’t remember which.

      Redreader looks open source and it seems to be working. It’s a lot more limited, which might be a good thing

        • Erick Yeagle@programming.devEnglish
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          5 months ago

          revanced keeps failing to patch the official reddit app for me. 🙃

          Just FYI if anyone cares to patch the official app, I believe you need to use 2024.17.0 from April 24th. Per comments from someone on apkmirror, that’s the last version that patches successfully.

    • ByteMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I infinity for reddit is the best for me but it’s down for now. There is an update but I don’t know if it will help. I’ll check it out tomorrow

  • x_cell@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Very sad day indeed.

    I was already using reddit less. I guess this is the final goodbye.

    • martin77@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I bought Boost for Lemmy on day 1 and come once in a while but let’s be honest people haven’t migrated off Reddit (and likely never will ) so outside of a few very specific subs there is barely anything for me to read over here…

      • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        5 months ago

        It’s very tech focused over here, but that makes a lot of sense when you consider only tech aligned people can figure out how to get it all working as it is.

        • Misk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I kinda like the fact that it’s only tech savvy people on here tbh. Kinda like it used to be back in the day, before everyone in the world and their cousin figured out how to get online.

          Normaloids ruined the internet. It’s nice to have a niche little corner of the web that they don’t know about yet so they can’t come and spoil it (yet) with all their endless pointless bickering and recycled political garbage reposting. Long live the 90s web 2.0 revival 😛

          • overload@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            5 months ago

            That’s a really good way of looking at it actually and I agree. The community is kind of filtered by only people who care enough to leave reddit, but also I think there is an aspect that we’re trying to escape the consequences of the karma system on posting/commenting behaviour.

            I’ve always thought that having accounts that showed your total number of upvotes incentivises posting the same in-jokes endlessly. Bot accounts with high karma can even be sold to people who care about having a high karma account.

  • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Oh, i uninstalled BfR immediately when i heard what was happening over there. I’m glad there’s BfL though! Dev seems just as active here as he was over there. This definitely scratches my itch for Reddit, though i wish more users were here in the places i like to browse :'( i need more motivation to get back into my hobbies, but i fear that all died alongside Reddit. sigh