I decided it was time to set up my RSS app as a replacement for Apollo. I created a list of all my subscribed subreddits. Adding them to Reeder, I skipped a bunch of them because they were never of much use. I ended up with less than a fourth of what I subscribed to.
Now when I go through my feed I see each individual post instead of focusing on large images and videos. Reeder just shows me what’s new. Instead of scrolling aimlessly for as long as I like, I can get through everything is a short period of time. Now I can aimlessly scroll through lemmy and bin.
I’m mainly a lurker, reading the main posts and not the comments so Reeder works well for me. If I want to see the comments or make one I have to go the Reddit site via the RSS app. I’m sure there are a lot of other features Apollo has that an RSS app doesn’t. I didn’t use them.
Thanks Apollo for a great app. I hope to see you in the lemmy kbin fediverse in the future.
I’ve done exactly the same thing. I’m now exclusively consuming Reddit via the Reeder rss app and I’ve cut my usage down by about 80% I’ll be honest that I’m missing the Apollo experience a lot more than you seem to be, but it’s provided me with a method of weaning myself off the site and is much rather that than have to just go cold turkey when I delete my account on 30th June
How long until Reddit remembers they’re providing RSS feeds?
Until then, good idea! I’m going to have to set that up.
That’s how I’ve been experiencing reddit for many many years. When you get used to accessing information this way, in a structured, cohesive and whole manner, you can’t easily go back to “timeline” modes information presentation where everything is mixed up, hard to relate and impossible to paginate. That’s why Twitter and mastodon have never made the cut for me.
How many of these posts about reddit have to keep popping up before the mods start cracking down and making this community about technology, not love/hate letter spam about the reddit incident. It’s gotten old.
Use one of the MULTIPLE communities about reddit for these posts. This isn’t even about technology, this is someone using this as their own personal microblog thinking other people care that they’ve moved on.
