Been a good couple of years

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• jadedwench@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨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.

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.

  For much of reddit’s best years, RiF was my top app.

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• AHorseWithNoNeigh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Came when RIF went down for good. Never looked back.

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Personally, I did not come when RiF was dead. It was too sad…

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    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ahh, the old Lemmy switcheroo.

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  WHERE THE FUCK IS LEMMY IS FUN

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  • Johanno@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jebora mostly

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I went straight from rif to jerboa. I tried the other early apps but they were all very “cardy”

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    • scala@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I use voyager closest to BaconReader

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• 13igTyme@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨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.

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• AnAverageSnoot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s already been 2 years?? Damn

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Holy crap! I just got used to thinking that its been over a year since the blackout… but that shocking realization was a year ago now. Thanks, everyone!

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• Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• rockettaco37@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean… Lemmy has always kinda felt more sane

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• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨19⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Kevnyon@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨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.

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    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My understanding is in the case of lemm.ee they were getting enough donations to cover the technical operating costs, but they did not have enough high-quality volunteers for admins (and presumably not enough money to pay admins. It would require a lot of money to pay fairly for that work).

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    • tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This made me curious, how much funding does it actually require for maintining reasonable amount of users in the long term ?

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  • all4one@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ate you going back to big R?

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    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well kind of yes and kind of no. I never closed my R account, and I still check there maybe once a week. So in that since “yes”. But on the other hand, the quality of posts and discussion is pretty low. It feels like a lot of the content there is posted to meet some goal, such as selling a product or influencing opinions - rather than just sharing thoughts and ideas. I find that pretty off-putting. Despite the very high comment counts, genuine discussion there is almost non-existent. But the one bit of value I do sometimes get is it often has some piece of niche news that I’m mildly interested in.

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• plz1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m so happy with Voyager being a really good replacement for Apollo. If you use it, donate to the dev. Building apps this good, solo, is hard.

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  • pootzapie@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thank you for reminder!!

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  didn’t all 3rd party apps stop working

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  • tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    RIF still works with some twaks, you need to patch it with an API key similar to youtube vanced and then it works. though some people report the method stopped working recently. Any way its a lost cause.

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  • loppwn@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Comet for Reddit worked for much longer than most others. Had it on my mothers ipad and browsed reddit when i visited her.

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• mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cheers y'all.

  Hopped over to Lemmy around that time and learned about the Fediverse. And now I'm checking out PieFed.

  What a ride it's been.

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• P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey thanks man, those two years flew!

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• Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Never used RiF, but I left at the same time. The writing was on the wall.

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mods especially had a harder time with the official app, so a lot of us left in solidarity with them & the app devs. :-)

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• redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cheers

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• SilverShark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reddit really turned into yet another brainrot doom scroll website.

  I think back to what it used to be, how I used to engage with the communities and it’s depressing to see how that was lost. I miss the old API especially. I used to have personal project around it that helped me use it. It was fun to develop and maintain, and it really helped me out browsing reddit.

  when they changed the api ruled I tried still to use it, but their interface to create an account to use the free api (I was querying so little it would have applied to use the free api), never worked. I tried for months until finally giving up.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The first Place was a lot of fun. I miss that kind of stuff. Or the “mad sketch appears” guy, or that guy who was a corvid specialist and popped up with bird facts every once in a while, until some drama happened and he left the site… It was an interesting site for a while there.

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    • SilverShark@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh yes, there were so many of these novelty accounts.

      I remembered a user called Shitty Watercolor who would do very quick paintings of things user situations. There is still a subredit about it, and I’m shocked to noticed that the posts are from like 9 or 10 years ago. www.reddit.com/r/Shitty_Watercolour/

      There was also the jumper cables guy. Like, a user who would reply to every askreddit threat, only that his story would at some point include a line in which his father would get mad and beat him with jumper cables. Very funny.

      So many of these accounts. The site really used to have some community and lore to it, and I really don’t feel it anymore. Even things like the secret question: “What time does the narwhal bacon?”

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• Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.

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  • Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s my spirit animal, I almost had to pick this one. :)

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    • Machinist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Was looking up tracks in a field guide the other day and ran across this super cute rodent, The Mountain Beaver.

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• Horsey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I genuinely can’t believe it’s been so long

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• siipale@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

      So true lol

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • faxed@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I complain about Eternal September and I’m still here, on the cooler platform with the cooler people… 🥺

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• Kcap@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I told reddit I wouldn’t be back and I meant it. RIF was perfect and they didn’t deserve the defeat and lies they received for just trying to share reddit to more people in a better manner. Fuck /u/spez

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  • JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Me too, i even said it in one of my last comments and a couple months later when i logged back in to wipe over my account i saw i had a reply; someone responded saying something like “yeah sure thing, youll be back in 2 days drama queen”.
    Well, turns out i meant what i said. Bye Felicia

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It's been pretty good too. Thanks everyone for making this collection of sites fun and interesting! Fedi is awesome 😎

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• Mvlad88@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait, it’s been two years already?

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image

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• akai_android@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  that was a fast 2yrs

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• Bonesince1997@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did anyone leave because they were banned? Because that was me.

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  • nik9000@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’re two years out from the API apocalypse. I think. That’s how I got here.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I got sitebanned a couple weeks before RIF officially died so not quite the same anniversary, close enough though :)

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• wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve only been here since the start of the year but I’m happy to be here.

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• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  10 years on reddit but when they fucked over the Apollo dev I had no problem giving him a couple bucks for the app and moving to Lemmy, haven’t looked back.

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• Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I never used RIF but I came over at the same time due to the fuckery over mods. I quit all my mod positions that day too, no more working for Reddit for free.

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