Spyke
lemmy.world

Losing RIF was the final straw, glad it prompted me to switchover.

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Yeah there were a lot of little things before then. It kind of felt like being in an abusive relationship every time you saw an admin post. Glad you made the switch!

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veroxiireply
aussie.zone

Yeah I still have bacon reader on my phone. I click it accidentally sometimes and it shows their goodbye message. 😭

That said I'm a Summit man now. Very happy with it!

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Happy to join in on your cake day too .... yeah that exodus two years ago was an exciting summer

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It was the time to go. I have not missed that shit show one bit.

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Alleroreply
lemmy.today

We're now integral to Lemmy history and legacy

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BakerBagelreply
midwest.social

Wish i hadn't lost the password to my original account. Now I can't prove that i was here that day

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Luckily, it doesn't matter too much.

This ain't my first Lemmy account, either

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Time has flown. Clearly I joined a bit later. But surely cake day soon.

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It’s been a good two years. Finally settled on my instance too, shame about lemm.ee though; love that one. But this one works too and Blahaj zone will be my backup if dbzero goes down next. Here’s to more years here!

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To celebrate, let me repost this same meme I made here when I first started posting in 196:

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Apollo was such a great client. Voyager is a decent replacement, but it’s missing so much.

Oddly enough, Christian is now working on the mobile app for the Digg reboot. That’ll be interesting to watch.

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sh.itjust.works

I'll be honest, I was using the official app. But when a bunch of people jumped ship, I saw how much cooler the new ship was and jumped with them. And I still like this ship.

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Still here two years later (and now from the third instance I've moved to). Lemmy rules, reddit drools!

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Once Reddit announced they were going public I knew it was over. Money corrupts everything. I definitely spent (wasted) a lot of time on RIF.

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Hi friends 💜 its been a much better experience over the last two years, looking forward to many more with the Fediverse xx

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jballsreply
sh.itjust.works

Originally started as Reddit Is Fun, a mobile app for Reddit. Then Reddit launched their own (shittier) app and forced them to change the name. So they went with RIF Is Fun.

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Noxyreply
pawb.social

Ah, thanks! I think Apollo is the app I used until I couldn't

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JackbyDevreply
programming.dev

To add, RiF is so old that it was originally just called "Reddit". It was around long, long before the official mobile app.

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I use the RIF logo to hide my sketchy apps visually. You just made me realize that I'm 2 years obsolete.

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ani.social

The weird thing is, I was off reddit for years already. It's only because tech news sites reported on the api changes (and boosted the fediverse) that I made the switch. I was doing fine! I didn't need a new reddit!

::: spoiler ... Nah, actually I did because 4chan was my replacement for the interim (-_-⁠メ⁠) :::

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Nah, actually I did because 4chan was my replacement for the interim (-_-⁠メ⁠)

Glad you survived.

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Hoboreply
lemmy.world

Reddit is fun. It was a reddit app that was killed when reddit started charging crack prices for api requests.

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Ah, Yeah that checks out. I never posted on reddit but the api thing made me make this account.

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jballsreply
sh.itjust.works

Do you have the problem where it doesn't mark posts as read? I started having that 8 months ago and haven't been able to use it since. It drives me insane!

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Still here, still trying to convince people to leave reddit, but some people won't even leave twitter or facebook, so what are you gonna do? Lemmy has taught me to be happy with my beans.

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jballsreply
sh.itjust.works

You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much beans as them. The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough beans.

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I will happily share my beans, but I guess it's weird to just put beans in your neighbor's bowl without their consent.

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Happy cake day everyone! 😘

I first joined feddit.de but it was riddled with issues so I switched to lemmy.world after three weeks. Some time later it croaked anyway.

I still see the day third party apps went offline as the day of my departure and I am happy to see us grow into a friendlier alternative to that shitshow of a website.

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lemmy.world

I still have RIF on my phone even though it doesn't work. Can't bring myself to delete it.

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I used to keep around a downloaded copy of Super Monday Night Combat after it shut down.

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I miss the simple interface the most. Like I can navigate the official app but I don't like it, and it resets my position browsing r/all randomly.

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Hard to believe its been two years, yet in ways it has felt like longer. Feels like a lot of shit has happened in just that short span of time in this little corner of the internet.

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slrpnk.net

Dunno about RIF, I've been in threadiverse since Sync for Reddit bit the dust. (Was in Kbin initially.)

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jballsreply
sh.itjust.works

Sync for Lemmy is ok, but the dev stopped responding about 8 months ago and it's got a bug that makes it completely unusable for many people.

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Rosereply
slrpnk.net

Heh, I know. I bought Sync for Reddit originally, and was really conflicted about whether I should buy Sync for Lemmy. Was, like, "what the hell, I'll be supporting the developer."...well I'm glad I never bought the ongoing support things this developer offered! Staunch supporter of open source threadiverse apps these days, as you might imagine.

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I actually didn't mind paying a monthly subscription to Sync for Lemmy, just to support the developer. He was super responsive at first and immediately fixed a comment sorting issue that I reported in his community.

Then he ghosted for a while and came back with a slew of updates. So I had hope that he would do the same again. Eventually after not being able to use Sync for a few months, I canceled my subscription. Would be glad to take it up again if he ever comes back and fixes it!

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piefed.social

First kbin was my high While some others kissed the 'sky. Now, As my lemm.ee dies I take comfort in the Pie.

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Just a FYI to anyone out there trying to use baconreader with revanced. Its now calls itself redbacon when linking accounts. Unless someone knows a good explaination for this name change, I would really reconsider using it still and probably changing your passwords.

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I didn't really use reddit but I remember back then seeing a link in a story about reddit shitting the bed and thought I'd check it out. Back then a big issue was over instances not vetting users who applied. Thay sentence probably doesn't even make sense to most users.

Though it has been interesting to say the least watching the reddit culture establish and then enforce itself.

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Rif was cool but I left once Joey got shut down. Fixing miss that app

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I'm only two months away from my two year cake day ever since leaving reddit, but I'll never get to celebrate it cause I so happened to pick an instance that is shutting down at the end of the month. 😭

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