cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/40087740
Happy ruleversary
Man two years, feels so much shorter
Been a good couple of years
Submitted 10 months ago by jballs@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 10 months ago
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
2000s were only 5 years ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And the nineties 15 years ago.
pyre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
didn’t all 3rd party apps stop working
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 10 months 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.
loppwn@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Comet for Reddit worked for much longer than most others. Had it on my mothers ipad and browsed reddit when i visited her.
LemmyAtEm2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cheers 🥂
hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months 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.
SpacemanSpiff@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And now I have to start over since lemm.ee is shutting down. Can anyone recommend a good instance?
OpenStars@piefed.social 10 months ago
sopuli and sh.itjust.works as others mentioned are good. I wanted to add a shout-out for discuss.online for anyone in the USA with fantastic uptime stats.
Also I'm a huge fan of PieFed, well worth checking out.:-)
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Just curious, why people avoid lemmy.ml i joined this beliveing its run by the lemmy devs so should be safest.
SpacemanSpiff@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Piefed was on my list as well. I’ll look into discuss.online, thanks for the suggestion!
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I moved to sopuli.xyz, which is also run from the Baltics (Finland).
jballs@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve been on sh.itjust.works for the last couple of years. The admins are cool as hell. Highly recommend.
SpacemanSpiff@lemm.ee 10 months ago
That was definitely one of the instances on my list to move to! Thanks for the recommendation!
blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Seconded. It’s pretty chill here.
ElPsyKongroo@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I joined about half a year after the 3rd party apps died. Reddit’s decision back then still feels like it was more recent than just 2 years ago, though…
Can time stop speedrunning itself, please?
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Never used RiF, but I left at the same time. The writing was on the wall.
OpenStars@piefed.social 10 months ago
Mods especially had a harder time with the official app, so a lot of us left in solidarity with them & the app devs. :-)
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Me!! Cheers 🍸
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shit, it’s been 2 years already? Damn. I still get bummed over RiF when I think about it.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 10 months ago
It could have been a top Lemmy app if open sourced…
mesitoispro@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
I joined around that time because there was enough users to sustain itself.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 months 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”!
aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or just go outside and touch grass. Running out of content means that you should do something else.
Doxatek@mander.xyz 10 months ago
What to do if I already touched all my grass
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
What comes after new?
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You start posting.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Then it is either time for bed, or lemnynsfw/yiffit
Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 months ago
New 2.0
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agreed.
I like it here.
God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Oh man I’m still not over that. Such a stupid decision on Reddit’s part.
meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hey, at least it brought us here. And now that Lemm.ee is going away I’m doing this whole thing again.
OpenStars@piefed.social 10 months ago
Not really: the Export+Import feature should make migration a breeze this time, and you'll still see all your old posts and stuff (you won't be able to edit them anymore though).
Switching from centralized Reddit to decentralized Threadiverse will never need to happen again - I even switched away from Lemmy to PieFed (when the Import feature hadn't been implemented yet) and it was still much easier.:-)
Mellibird@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
I’m so sad about lemm.ee!!! That was the first instance I joined! That was my home for, wow, 2 years. But I’m still sticking with Lemmy. Just had to find myself a new home base.
God_Is_Love@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Yeah I’m so glad that many people felt strongly enough about it to populate this platform!
x3x3@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I joined when Reddit started milking their users
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
stratoscaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honestly Lemmy has been way better for me for my phone habits. Just enough content but not too much
picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Eventually, that’s going to change.
OpenStars@piefed.social 10 months ago
I dunno... every mainstream normie I've ever told about Lemmy gets enormously turned off by the tankie content here. Yeah you can block it, but why should they when Reddit caters to a more centrist audience, they seem to think. We are a Nazi bar here and that's going to be a problem for a long while.
It didn't help that I did not realize that a Google search pulls up Lemmy.ml as the top instance, and that it shows only Local content by default to a guest user. Thus it substantially helps to point to a specific Lemmy instance rather than tell people to check out just "Lemmy", although lemm.ee was one of the top recommendations there so now that's going to be confusing when people read old posts and comments.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months 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.
OpenStars@piefed.social 10 months 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.
trk@aussie.zone 10 months 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.today 10 months 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.ca 10 months ago
Oh ya what happened to that site?
tap tap tapTildes 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
I complain about Eternal September and I’m still here, on the cooler platform with the cooler people… 🥺
nucleative@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.
For much of reddit’s best years, RiF was my top app.
AnAverageSnoot@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s already been 2 years?? Damn
Pistcow@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Synch for Lemme and haven’t gone back.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I stopped using RIF when the dumbass who developed it started whining about open source and monetary remuneration. The app became popular in large part because it was open source.
It’s just like the nutsack who founded GitHub. A literal GPLv2 program and the guy got super rich and famous, then extolled the virtues of using lax permissive licenses. Absolute tool.
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sync was always better
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Joey was the superior app. Shame it didn’t get as widespread as the others.
Machinist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.
Jerb322@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s my spirit animal, I almost had to pick this one. :)
Machinist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Was looking up tracks in a field guide the other day and ran across this super cute rodent, The Mountain Beaver.
ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I never looked back
Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Relay for me
Bristlecone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wow 2 years already?! Let’s fucking go Lemmy!
Pulptastic@midwest.social 10 months ago
2 years and 2 weeks. I must have left a tad early.
b_n@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Piling on another comment to say that lurking here feels much nicer than on reddit. The comments are actually worth reading a lot of the time. RiF going down was a dark day, but Jerboa and Lemmy make everything light.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Shutout to Thunder, another great client.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Because reddit is mostly bots and shills now. Lemmy will be up and coming soon and then it’ll be even more astroturfed due to how easy it easy to do that on this platform.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 months ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS LEMMY IS FUN
Johanno@feddit.org 10 months ago
Jebora mostly
WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, I went straight from rif to jerboa. I tried the other early apps but they were all very “cardy”
scala@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I use voyager closest to BaconReader