• SpacemanSpiff@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    4 days ago

    I was one of those RIF users that left two years ago and now I have to start over since lemm.ee is shutting down. Can anyone recommend a good instance?

    • mad_lentil@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      You decided on a new home yet? What’s your selection criteria.

      I’d be tempted to make a single user instance, given how there’s an ansible playbook you can just run.

  • 13igTyme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    I created an account two years ago, but was using boost and it kept working up until a few months ago. The combination of Boost not working and Nazis taking over Reddit so even the desktop old reddit was pointless to use.

    Now I use Boost for Lemmy for mobile.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    It makes me a bit upset that the developer of RIF didn’t make a Lemmy alternative. They instead went to Tildes, which, when I tried to check it out was not open to public registration. IDK if that changed, but I have not even heard a single person ever mention it outside of those early days after the API changes were announced and people were looking for alternatives.

    I want LIF. 😩

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      I’m on Tildes, and it’s a good site for discussion without the constant memes and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.

      Not real sure why RIF dude chose that site to write an app for though. The site itself is basically exactly the same as the app. Very clean, very simple, no wasted space. It’s even better than old.reddit at prioritising content over pretty pictures.

      Lemmy would benefit much more from a RIF app, even if Voyager and the like do a pretty good job as it stands.

      • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
        6·
        4 days ago

        and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.

        So true lol

    • faxed@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Oh ya what happened to that site? tap tap tap

      Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha, and you must be invited to be able to register.

      I assume all the elitists complaining about the eternal september (including the 20 years olds) have sequestered themselves there which is best for everyone.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      There really is no comparison, Tildes has a few hundred to thousand active people (looks like about 20 posts a day… across the entire site), and is run by a single guy with very particular ideas about what people are allowed to say and do on his site.

      Lemmy meanwhile has roughly 50k users and I would guess hundreds to thousands of posts per day, even if not millions like Reddit that allows more niches to develop.

  • siipale@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    I still have rif on my phone for it’s sentimental value. Two years ago it took a while to get used to opening Connect for Lemmy instead of rif.

  • haych@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    I patched my Sync and RIF so they still work fine. But I’m here anyway!

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    223·
    5 days ago

    I remember 2 years ago trying out Lemmy and getting a few laughs about beans and trying not to poop. I thought “this is ok, but I don’t think this will ever replace Reddit in my day to day.”

    But I stuck with it and have come to love and appreciate Lemmy. The number of users has continued to grow and I feel like there’s enough content here now that I never feel bored. Plus I feel like even small posts and comments get attention and we’re not just screaming into the void.

    So happy cake day to all who did the same thing!

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      5 days ago

      Kind of same, I remember making a login like dropping my bags in an empty apartment like “well this is home now” and my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars. Wondering if I could hack it here. Just said fuck it we ball and started posting to try and decorate the place, hoping to be part of the Lemmy that made a difference and gets us noticed among the turmoil.

      Seems like we didnt quite make it compared to BlueSky as a reddit/Twitter supplanted, but thats ok, I think in retrospect I’ve made a fair number of people happy to see my posts, and hope I have at least helped a couple of (mostly) meme communities get either noticed or traction. (Sorry jojokes, I just ran out guys, I didnt want to dig into low effort to keep posting, people deserve some standard of quality)

      RiF still lives on my phone, hoping one day I can use it again.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58·
      5 days ago

      Same, cant believe it was 2 years ago. I was really bummed when it happened.i had been on reddit for almost 15 years at that point.

      • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        5 days ago

        Fucking same.

        I deleted my main account once they first came out with the reddit recap, and deleted my replacement when they fucked RIF, never to return.

        I still lurk without an account sometimes, but that’s all they’ll ever get out of me.

      • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        5 days ago

        I deleted my account before RIF died, as the writing was on the wall. I check Reddit accountless if there is a big news story, but tend to avoid it otherwise.

        Honestly I miss (the old) reddit sometimes, but Lemmy has been really enjoyable. My reddit account was getting old anyways, I’d already seen all the content that was reposted every year or so and was just getting annoyed. I absolutely do not miss the aggression of every reddit thread, I feel like we are generally all on the same team here.

        I guess that is kind of the downside of Lemmy too - if you’re not a very specific type of person, it probably won’t appeal to you. And I guess that can sort of result in an echo chamber, although it seems instead of arguing about the left and the right, we argue about the far left and the farther left.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      trying not to poop

      Why…were you trying not to poop? Or was this a meme I missed? I remember the beans.

      Yeah, Lemmy had absolutely been great over the last year. 6-hour Top sorting is absolutely key here.

      Is it a one-for-one replacement? No. There are a lot of communities that haven’t been able to come over effectively. But the main core communities have and it’s been fantastic.

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    5 days ago

    Rif somehow shielded me from all the fuckery that was happening in Reddit, when I finally tried the mobile app and website from longer than 2 mins, I was like, oh yeah, ah, ok, bye

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        5 days ago

        They’re thick in the “ads bring us more money than making improvements” phase of corporate bullshit now.

        Reddit still can’t make a better app than the ones made by solo developers who just did it as a passion project, but they’ve got enough money to throw around for a Superbowl ad spot and an entire ad campaign on YouTube.

        • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          20·
          5 days ago

          their mobile app isn’t even their own base code. they bought out Alien Blue, which was one of the earliest and arguably best mobile apps for Reddit, and relaunched it as their own. all they had to do was not fuck that one up and they would have straight up driven the other popup 3rd party apps out of business by just being good and official. but of course, reddit must always rise to their incompetence.

    • Sabin10@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 days ago

      Old reddit does the same thing on desktop but if that goes away I’ll be fully done with it. As it is I am about an 80/20 split between lemmy and reddit now so it’s probably going to happen regardless but that would speed things up.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        Ya, sadly there is still a lot of useful content in the technical subreddits. So I find myself ending up there via search engines on a fairly regular basis. But, I specifically use the Redirector plugin for Firefox to auto-magically force the use of old Reddit. If I hit the site on my work computer, I’m quickly reminded about why I quit the site.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      RIF was so cleannnn. Sync for Lemmy has been just as good. Tried some of the early ones like Jerboa but none of them replicated the vibe

      • zatanas@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Currently using Thunder as a mobile lent client. Working out well so far.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Same. I had gotten the paid version because the dev deserved something for such a great app. RIF died and I did a hard cutover to Lemmy. Deleted my Reddit account and probably caused some confusion for the cordcutters subreddit. I had a post which was part of the sidebar for about a decade.

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    79·
    5 days ago

    I joined when Apollo went silent. Coincidentally, I’m wearing my Clipollo t-shirt as I type this.

    • bran_buckler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      Me as well! Unfortunately, I joined an instance that went dark (kbin), so I’ve got 2 lemmy cake days, I guess.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I went from Reddit to Kbin to StarTrek.Website and when every action was taking >1 minute and needing to be repeated, switched again to Discuss.Online, which I am very happy with and remain to this day.

        Except I also switched to PieFed.social and use that 95% of the time now.:-)

        It’s been a bit of a wild ride! 🤣💪😺

    • TheOgreChef@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      Ditto. I was an Alien Blue fan that jumped to Apollo then to Voyager once the APIs went down. I apparently have a type when it comes to Reddit and Lemmy apps.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        4 days ago

        Same here. I had Alien Blue gold for the longest time too. Then Apollo saved the day and got so good. Reddit without it was useless ad garbage with a heavy slow UI. The fact it was so enshitified was the final nail in the coffin for me.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Didn’t we have like months of warning before the API shutdown? I recall I was already upset about a ton of other shit over there (had been for years) and as soon as I started hearing rumors or stories about the API fuckery, I headed to Lemmy way before the apps stopped working.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          I already wanted to do it anyway for a bunch of other reasons, so really they were doing me a favor by really providing additional motivation.

  • Makeshift@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    5 days ago

    Wasn’t RIF fir me, it was Apollo. But same general reason!

    Some niche communities I miss (I know, I know. Make them! I’m a follower not a leader, and my schedule is bad enough already. I have substitutes). But overall Lemmy good.

    I’m here for news and shitposts and random TILs.

    Fuck Spez!

    • Mellibird@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Yes Apollo!! I used it on my iPad, but boost was and now still is my go to. As soon as Boost was done, I jumped to Lemmy. I wasn’t sure if I would stick around in the beginning, but I’m so glad that I have. I have thoroughly been enjoying my time here

    • projectsquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 days ago

      Scrolled until I saw an Apollo post. I miss the old days on Reddit. As much as I want it to be the same here, it simply isn’t.