Third party apps made Reddit a dream on mobile, a big part of its success were the passionate people. And they showed us all the middle finger

and now its filled with prop bots, bots/spammers(for thier own sitess) and AI reposting bots.

For me it was the way they treated the Apollo developer Christian Selig leading up to the whole API thing. Absolutely heinous.

Same. Although I’m reading this on Voyager, which has borrowed heavily from Apollo

Gonna tell my kids this app is Apollo and pour one out for those that didn’t make it.

Remember when YouTube started having AI narrated posts from r/askreddit in its shorts? And how that slowly morphed into the AI generated slop stories about how one family member give the rest of them their comeuppance because the Henderson account valued results instead of random cheap business practices involving Sgt Menendez and his cheating ex girlfriend?

(This stuff is like candy to Boomers because it mirrors the reader write in sections of Reader’s Digest.)

I should have noticed this earlier, but it dawned on me a few weeks back.

Caught my father in law who’s addicted to youtube watching a video about some WWII pilot that knew how to shoot at enemy fighters from his time hunting hogs in Kansas. It was entirely AI generated, the video, the voice, and the narrative. That person didn’t exist and it didn’t survive scrutiny if you know anything about guns. But damn the comments were just boomers gooning over military wank.

the comments were likely Ai generated bots too.

I never did like the “bullseye womprat” logic.

For me, I already disliked reddit and just needed to know that this place existed

lemmy has been talking about this for like 3 years now. you people have nothing new to say 😅️

I use sync for Lemmy and its elite. I can’t fathom using the piece of shit reddit app.

Yeah it was my reddit client until the API then the dev pivoted to Lemmy and I just picked it right up again