Boost For Lemmy @lemmy.world romp_2_door @lemmy.world 6 mo. ago

Boost for reddit has now truly 100% died. Hello Lemmy!

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

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Edit: Working again

Reddit did some change in the API that breaks many apps. As far as I know they are aware of the issue and will fix it. More info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/1d3spoc/error_getting_submitted_with_mobile_useragent/
I misread your title and thought you were saying that the Boost for Lemmy app was now dead. I'm glad I was mistaken.
- Same! LOL
- I was like: "huh? But I'm using Boost right now!"
I like lemmy but reddit is still difficult to replace due to lack of content and active communities. But I ain't using the official app so I guess here we are.
- You get used to it. Sorting by New and challenging yourself to kick off conversations helps.
  
  I'd also point out that less content has become a good thing for me.
  
  Less endless doom scrolling, more contributing to discussions and touching grass.
  
  I've been on lemmy like 2 years. I like it but I wouldn't say I've gotten used to it.
- I discovered Lemmy today thanks to Boost lol
  
  Welcome :)
- Its getting better.. you'll be a +1 the activity and who wants bot or toxic activity anyway. Oh and the mods are generally much nicer here
  
  On this instance anyway.
- Same. I'm looking around at the KBin instance and it's in bad shape, some of the communities are in. The admin is MIA due to IRL issues with health so he can't be around to help. Moderators are abandoning already weakened communities that are now stuffed with bots and spam content.
  
  The only real lively community is over in Lemmy's instances. But, the Fediverse still yet has a long ways to go, it needs more maturity as an alternative and needs more time to gather membership that'll hopefully be comparable to reddit's but not in quantity but quality.
  
  The fediverse looks a lot different from a lemmy server than it does from Kbin, fyi. There's a lot of stuff that doesn't get federated properly or in a reasonable time period, leading to fewer visible posts and discussions that look a lot emptier than they actually are.
- I still use reddit when I'm looking for very specific information, because reddit still is an amazing database of content/info. Many of my searches kinda end up on reddit that way. But I don't post there anymore and I block all ads. So... I'm still using it but providing nothing in return. I can live with that.
- It's different for everyone, but for me it was just doom scrolling and not so much engaging with specific communites, so actually there really wasn't a need to replace anything. I just don't do it anymore and have more time for my hobbies now.
Reddit been dead for awhile, homie. Welcome.
- 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...
  
  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.
Welcome! Lemmy is a pretty fun place.
- We got authentic weirdos unlike them Reddit fake bot weirdos.
  
  yeah.
  
  weirdos like me!
  
  Who you calling weirdo, nerd?
It appears they're now blacklisting user-agents with "android" in them, people are putting out revanced patches for different clients.
- I wonder whether reddit will kill the free API access next.
There's an incoming patch from revanced that will fix a few of the reddit clients including boost. Check revanced manager for new patches in the next few hours and you can patch boost for reddit and get it working again.

https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-patches/pull/3234
Very sad day indeed.

I was already using reddit less. I guess this is the final goodbye.
The only 3rd party reddit app I know that is still free is RedReader. Might be others too.

Sucks they refuse to let up on the API ban but it's cool, we needed to get off reddit anyway.

My doom scrolling is way down over the past year.
- I feel like Lemmy is not very active though, unfortunately. Or maybe I'm on the wrong Lemmy and not subscribed to enough communities or whatever they call sublemmies.
See this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1d4d8bc/reddit_down_on_official_reddit_app_and_boost_not/?rdt=42748
- Seems to be the real cause. I tried the official app for shits and giggles, can't even log in. So yeah they fucked up pretty hard.
- Hah and I thought my modded subreddit isn't active enough so I lose the privilege. I have been thinking about creating a new one so this is a nice surprise.
- It's back now.
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?
- 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
  
  Ah redreader I'll look into that, revanced keeps failing to patch the official reddit app for me. 🙃
- I just installed Atom for reddit, it's pretty barebones but works for me
- 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
Known about lemmy for a while since the API protests, but finally took the chance to actually make an account due to this. I assume there will be a patch for this on revanced but meh
Y'know I tried using boost for lemmy since that's what I used for reddit, then I noticed how jam packed full of ads it is (just like reddit).

Jerboa has a lot of the same features and is completely ad free
- After having used Boost for Reddit for so long I was happy to cough up a bit of money to get Boost for Lemmy to not have any ads. Jerboa was great for a free app, but for me the user experience felt free. I haven't used it since BfL came out so not sure if it's improved since then.
  
  Hey I get that. I was like that myself originally. But after using jerboa I actually like it more. No hate towards anyone who uses boost or sync or whatever. I just like the feel of it.
  
  And don't get me wrong, jerboa has its own issues. One of the biggest being a lack of thumbnail protocol for large images or not being able to unblock communities/users without going to the full website but for a free app without ads it's pretty nice.
  
  Did the same, if I'm gonna make the switch then I might as well stick to what I'm used to anyhow
Yeah my vanced sync stopped working as well... Not sure what to do
- Same here was looking for info but couldn't find anything, it works if you log out so I'm guessing it's the revanced API thing that's finally broken.
- Redreader still works without patches if you must use reddit
  
  I wish I didn't have to and could convince everyone else to join the fediverse, alas...
- Stop browsing Reddit?
  
  I mean yeah that's an option but there's still great content there
Ah, bugger. I guess that's it for reddit on mobile for me then.
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
RedReader still works.
- Yup but it's so much less convenient to use
  
  In what ways?
- Yup, I'm still using this to lurk occasionally.
So this was a screw up on reddit's end and also broke their official app for some people. They seem to have rolled that change back as of this morning. My revanced copy of baconreader works again
It was working just two hours ago. Now, what am I going to do with all the free time?
I was wondering why the redlib frontends stopped working today. Oh well, probably for the best this way.
Works again this morning
It's back 🎉🥳
Welcome in! Now go download Boost for Lemmy. 🙂
Fuckkkkkk
I can confirm. As of today I'm unable to load my front page or any of my subs.
Actually Infinity is also dead for some reason so I guess I'm deleting reddit? Great
Bacon reader as well, I haven't used it much since last year, but I found I could browse without being signed in.

Just checked it, and it's dead.

Fuck the pedophile u/spez

Oh well good riddance.
looks at RES in hopes they have much longer
JOEY for reddit is done too. Tried atom and can see frontpage, but cant log on to account
- For what its worth I was able to log in today on Atom after whatever happened with boost. So it can work, might be worth trying again
If you really need to use reddit, redreader seems to still work fine after a quick test, with the "mod an empty nsfw sub to see other nsfw subs". The layout confused me though.
More folks that make the switch the better it gets here so welcome friend!
Stealth for Reddit available on F-droid still works, and the only app I used for Reddit after the api wars due to no need for an account to have a custom feed and allowing local saves that posts or comments. Accountless is my favorite approach to stuff like reddit or YouTube.
Technically it has but folks are bypassing it if you want to keep going
Ah, I was wondering what happened. Gave my Boost for Reddit the revanced treatment and it's been working fine since last summer. Oh well. All good things.
What is reddit?

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