Been a good couple of years

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• CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sync FTW

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  • Macallan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It was great until the Dev abandoned it. It hasn’t been updated in 15 months. 😡 😭

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    • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh wow, I didn’t even notice

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• Klaptrax@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Baconreader refugee here

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  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • Krill@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ditto.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This me. Do we get snacks?

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  • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The office ordered everyone beans. You can have some during your break.

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• Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sometimes I forget how long it’s been!

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• frosty@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For me it was Apollo

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  • tavostator@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Apollo walked so Voyager could run

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• Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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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  • faxed@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• seemefeelme@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 🤢

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  didn’t all 3rd party apps stop working

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  • loppwn@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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  • tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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• Pistcow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Synch for Lemme and haven’t gone back.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  2 years and 2 weeks. I must have left a tad early.

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• Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    $$$

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• Therobohour@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hey that’s me

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  • rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Me too!

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  • party_planet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ditto, Hi!

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• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Floodedwomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sync was always better

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s RIF? I joined when BaconReader stopped working

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Someone else suggested saying when all the 3rd party API supported apps stopped working - but there’s only so much room on a meme text box, ya know?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    RIF arguably the best Reddit mobile app.

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  • Sc00ter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    RIF = reddit is fun

    Its was when the third party apps went down

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• return2ozma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That was me

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• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ate you going back to big R?

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    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  3 months short for me but that’s because it took me that long to figure out how Lemmy worked.

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• hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I wasn’t on reddit, but I did hear a lot of buzz about lemmy around that time, so I decided to check it out. It’s been one of the better places I’ve enjoyed for discussion.

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• QubaXR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I pour one out for Bacon Reader

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yup I loved baconreader!

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Time flies doesn’t it?

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Congrats Lemmy. Way better than Reddit shit show.

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• jadedwench@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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• Kcap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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