cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/40087740
Happy ruleversary
Congrats Lemmy. Way better than Reddit shit show.
Been a good couple of years
Submitted 1 day ago by jballs@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
foggianism@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s been 2 years already?!
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Exactly !!
Miss RIF so much.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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!
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 day 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.world 1 day 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.ml 22 hours 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.
Exusia@lemmy.world 1 day 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)
jballs@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars
Made this a couple weeks ago for you
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s good enough, and that’s really great!
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Happy cake day!
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The post has been since deleted, but someone was trying to last three days without pooping.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To a t!! Happy Lemmy day you glorious nerds!!!
tisktisk@piefed.social 1 day ago
Took the words out me mouth perfectly
Therobohour@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Hey that’s me
party_planet@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
ditto, Hi!
rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Me too!
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I was sync for me, but hell yeah, it’s been a good couple of years.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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. :(
needanke@feddit.org 2 hours ago
Wefwef?
13igTyme@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Sync FTW
Macallan@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It was great until the Dev abandoned it. It hasn’t been updated in 15 months. 😡 😭
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 1 day 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
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Lol same here. Jesus that whole site is atrocious now.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s so painful to look at anymore, lol.
Sabin10@lemmy.world 23 hours 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.world 15 hours 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.
FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Oldlander on ff mobile. And same.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours 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.ee 4 hours ago
Currently using Thunder as a mobile lent client. Working out well so far.
siipale@sopuli.xyz 2 hours 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.
rockettaco37@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I mean… Lemmy has always kinda felt more sane
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
100% RIF was the best, when it went bye bye so did I
silasmariner@programming.dev 21 hours ago
For a month or two I still kept the app on my phone. As a memento.
Reddit’s official UX experiences suck balls
pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 20 hours ago
I still have it installed and I plan to keep it until my smartphone stops working
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You just reminded me that I never uninstalled it lmao…
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
jadedwench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours 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.
Klaptrax@lemmynsfw.com 7 hours ago
Baconreader refugee here
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 6 hours 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.
Krill@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
Ditto.
robocall@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Same same !
frosty@pawb.social 8 hours ago
For me it was Apollo
tavostator@feddit.org 8 hours ago
Apollo walked so Voyager could run
TomMasz@piefed.social 1 day ago
I joined when Apollo went silent. Coincidentally, I'm wearing my Clipollo t-shirt as I type this.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thats me once Reddit is fun stop working was the day I said goodbye to Reddit.
TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 22 hours 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.works 7 hours 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.
bran_buckler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Me as well! Unfortunately, I joined an instance that went dark (kbin), so I’ve got 2 lemmy cake days, I guess.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I also joined kbin when I started, then hopped to lemmy.world. Finally hopped to sh.itjust.works because I was tired of the world censorship like not allowing us to even browse !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
OpenStars@piefed.social 21 hours 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 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! 🤣💪😺
jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 hours 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.
TomMasz@piefed.social 23 hours ago
I was one of the foolish ones who hoped it wouldn't happen.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 12 hours ago
Man two years, feels so much shorter
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
2000s were only 5 years ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
And the nineties 15 years ago.
hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 13 hours 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.
redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Cheers
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Woohoo ! Happy Anniversary! Deleted manually 13 years of posts and comments.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
I had a script that did it. Reddit kept restoring them and I kept running thr script, finally most of it stuck
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
i left july 3rd
demizerone@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I still miss rif 😭
herrvogel@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I still use rif. You can get the app as an apk, and patch it to replace the original API key with your own using something like vanced. I already had my key from before the debacle, not sure how you get one these days. Anyway, it did give me some trouble while logging in, but eventually it worked.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
This method stopped working for me 2 months ago. Something to do with headers (browser-agent), but didn’t bother fixing
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Shit, it’s been 2 years already? Damn. I still get bummed over RiF when I think about it.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 13 hours ago
It could have been a top Lemmy app if open sourced…
JPSound@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Hey, thats me! 2 years already?!?! Freakin crazy
jballs@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I know right?!
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
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.
Kevnyon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, had to move back to this instance because of that. I think that just shows how hard it is and how much funding it actually requires.
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
This made me curious, how much funding does it actually require for maintining reasonable amount of users in the long term ?
SpacemanSpiff@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
And now I have to start over since lemm.ee is shutting down. Can anyone recommend a good instance?
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS LEMMY IS FUN
Empricorn@feddit.nl 17 hours ago
This is exactly when and why I stopped using Reddit permanently and switched to Lemmy. If you run out of “Active” content here, try switching to “Hot”. And then “New”!
return2ozma@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That was me