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[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yep that's me. RIF was so good. Why would a website cannibalize itself like this?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Boost was taken away for Reddit and swiftly given back to me for Lemmy. Bless the Boost devs and Lemmy hosts for saving me from the official Reddit experience 🤢

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

And now my instance is shutting down 🤡

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I was sync for me, but hell yeah, it's been a good couple of years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I used to love that app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Sync has been very user friendly for me, and the closest I felt to RiF

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That was me

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's been 2 years already?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Exactly !!

Miss RIF so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I still use RIF

Revanced ftw. Although some things stopped working, /r/random stopped working

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We should make our own RIF

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Would have to start from scratch as RIF was not open source and now abandoned as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Congrats Lemmy. Way better than Reddit shit show.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Speaking of which, a recent Android update (I know I should change OSes) got rid of the little Lemmy.world web app icon thing I had installed and I haven't been able to get it back, so far. Does anyone know how to fix that? That was working great as my RIF replacement. I read it all again and I'm such a grandma. :(

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I loved RIF and was addicted to Reddit. But they dumped me and I am scorned and will never forgive reddit! Fuck reddit and I hope it dies.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I loved that app and I still miss it (and reddit) in some ways, but the API Apocalypse was when I decided I had to take a moral stand and quit. No way was I going to be railroaded into the first-party app full of ads and nonsense.

I haven't looked back since.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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Apollo walked so Voyager could run

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Same. I used the little picture widget to cycle adorable animal pictures all day on my home screen. The one little thing that gave me joy, fucking ruined by corporations. While I don't have a widget anymore, I at least have someplace I can talk for 5 minutes and have someone listen.

[–] [email protected] 221 points 2 days ago (22 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Man two years, feels so much shorter

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Hey thanks man, those two years flew!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

When reddit announced that they were going public I knew the end was nigh. Money corrupts everything. What made reddit cool was the users and reddit just wanted to suck that dry. I was happy to leave but I pretty much just lurked on Reddit so it wasn't that hard.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I mean... Lemmy has always kinda felt more sane

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woohoo ! Happy Anniversary! Deleted manually 13 years of posts and comments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I had a script that did it. Reddit kept restoring them and I kept running thr script, finally most of it stuck

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (4 children)

100% RIF was the best, when it went bye bye so did I

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (8 children)

In 10 days my account will be 2 years old.

I've enjoyed it, and this has been one of my most visited websites during that time. But I'm still not sure I'll stick around after lemm.ee shuts down at the end of this month.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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

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