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.

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    1 year ago

    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