Welcome RIF users
I landed here after RIF stopped working on my device and followed RIF link. This will be my new place to find content and see aggregation. Here it is to the end of reddit that starts today! 🍻
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Hi everybody. Make sure to actually start posting and commenting in other communities. I've seen so many posts about coming here from Reddit which is fine. But we can't keep posting about only that.
This right here. As much as I’ve been enjoying Lemmy, it’s also been hard to go strictly-Lemmy, because the active users currently here aren’t quite as deliciously trashy as some of the subreddits. Like, yeah, I’m a developer, yeah I’m a nerd, but you know what? I like makeup tutorials and talking crap about the Teen Mom franchise. I could descend to deep diving in all my guilty pleasures on Reddit, and it’s crickets over here in comparison.
So…I’m trying. But it’ll only be as successful as the content we generate.
Give it time. I remember back in 2007, Reddit was rough around the edges and didn't have the billion users it has now. It will take time. Slowly but surely, unique communities will emerge.
Absolutely true. It's tough to be an early adopter sometimes though! I love the vibe here, but I'm really having to shift what my usual community hangouts are. Sometimes I feel like I'm talking to myself in the ones I tried to get running, though one is at least limping along.
But you're right. Patience and persistence is how we get there.
One step at a time 💯
I've seen content explode and I only joined and started having a look yesterday the instant RIF died. At first it was broken as shit, and there wasn't much to look at. This morning, my front page pretty much resembles my front page on Reddit, except the numbers (points and comment counts) are smaller.
All in all, things are looking good and I feel like in probably a month or less, this place will start to feel like home.
I feel you. But frfr, I post and comment about stuff that's going on around me. Rn, r site imploding is what's happening. I posted there about other stuff, when other stuff is happening from now on I'm posting about it here.
It's a little disgusting, but completely in character, for Reddit to leech off those apps for over a decade and then stab them in the back.
And by leech, I mean I question whether Reddit would have grown as much as it did without the 3rd-party apps. Hardly anyone uses Reddit desktop.
... it's probably a good thing that I don't have Reddit on my phone now, to be honest, just wish it hadn't happened this way.
I've heard a lot of people share the same sentiment - it's actually a good thing that we don't have access to reddit apps now. It was too addictive, took up too much of our time, and now we get to try new things.
You have any idea how much housework I've got done in the last 24 hours???
Ha ha, na I spent it on the xbox
I keep seeing this addiction angle from a lot of people and I can't help but laugh because, you're all here, just replacing one addiction with another.
first day on Lemmy. redditor for 15 years, RIF user for a good chunk of that.
RIF was the primary way I consumed Reddit. Killing it was a dumb move.
Same and I agree that reddit pushing off all 3rd party apps was a bad decision. I keep automatically opening the app before remembering it's not going to work. Gonna take some time to get used to just using lemmy
If you're using a browser on your phone, you may be able to create an icon for getting into Lemmy directly and sticking it where RIF was.
Me too. Sucks to see if go, but heres to new beginnings
Same. 10 years or RIF. This seems like a cozy place!
Legit. I've only had positive interactions since being here. The last few years on rif positive interactions were becoming few and far between.
Just made my account here. Rest in power RIF! No RIF no reddit for me. Atm problems to log in on desktop. Thoughts and prayers for the lemmy servers :D
Same, no RIF no reddit, the one only & best for 9+ yrs. Might lurk old.reddit some, but seriously ready to turn a new leaf where my interests aren't sold as potential ad-clickers
Watch reddit remove old.reddit next
To me this is clearly a future step. Obviously reddit hasn't cared about the user experience in years and have been slowly maneuvering to make changes that benefit profits at the cost of user experience.
For me personally I look back to when Victoria was fired as the first moment I said "oh OK, it's gonna be like that". The value she brought to the site could not be overstated imo. AMAs were a true spectacle before. Ever since then it's felt like reddit was attempting to "make frog soup" by slowly making everything worse and hoping each individual change wouldn't be enough for the frog to jump out.
They'll learn the hard way that it doesn't work I guess lol.
Death of the apps was the line in the sand for me and many others. Old.reddit will inevitably be taken behind the shed one day and I imagine that'll be another line in the sand. And eventually I really do believe reddit will fade out to the level of digg/tumblr/whatever else.
Love the fediverse idea though. He's hoping it takes off.
One final thought... I swear it's amazing how quickly any company goes to hell once it goes public. To me it really feels like the people making these decisions do not understand the products/services they provide and why they're successful.
i just downloaded 'connect for lemmy' on googleplay first impression is good, lets see where we go from here
Go look at Thunder and wefwef when you are acclimatized. I am seriously vibing on Thunder; the only thing I haven't figured out how to do on that one is get the text bigger. Thunder and wefwef are both sideloaded, tho.
Exactly. I pretty much exclusively used RIF for the past 11 years. I might still check old.reddit for local news and maybe subredditdrama to see how reddit's quality is declining, but I will find somewhere else for everything else I used reddit for.
reddit was fun. Thank you RIF.
Yep, Reddit was Fun, hopefully Lemmy will be Fun too
Switched from reddit to here. Hopefully we'll see something similar to Rif for lemmy. Fuck reddit and fuck spez.
I suggest giving wefwef a try. It's a web app and it seems really solid. I came here from Apollo, but used rif prior to that and this app seems really nice.
Second this. I've tried 3 or 4 apps so far, and wefwef is the best for me
We need a Lemmy is Fun!
I have no idea what I'm doing, but I made it here. I hope to understand instances and whether I need to create other accounts soon.
If you make an account on one instance, you can read and write on the others!
You'll get it in no time. The best way I've seen it described is email. You can have outlook. I can have Juno. Our pal can have aol. But we can all still talk to each other and see the same emails just as tho we all had the same email provider. Same thing here with instances. They're each like an individual Reddit but we can all see them (for the most part, some have been blocked by others, etc.) And comment in then from our own instances.
From what I can tell, it most closely resembles usenet.
Neat, thanks! How can I see which instances are blocked by this one?
The creator of sync for reddit is creating a similar app for lemmy, you can sign up for any updates on the sync community here. I plan on downloading that when it comes out.
Edit: I just downloaded connected for lemmy on the Google play store, working great so far!
I'm on the Connect train right now as well and so far it's not bad. I'm having fun finding new spaces to go, feels like Reddit thirteen years ago when I first joined. More discussion based, frontpage of the lemmy version of r/all isn't plagued by TikTok videos.
Not bad. They just need the page to stop automatically bumping posts down every 3 seconds and this site will be perfectly fine as a replacement
that will be fixed once lemmy.world updates to the latest version
https://lemmy.world/post/875584
Seriously, I'm legit impressed; there's enough here right already to make the transition work. I'll miss BORU, but losing my AITA habit is probably a win when you're at the point of thinking human extinction may have some good ideas there.
Ha! I had the same two habit subreddits. Plus legaladvice.
My hard go-to's were AITA, BORU, Hobby Drama, Subreddit Drama, and Unresolved Mysteries. I'm still looking for replacements; is there a thread for us to find equivalent communities? I can (probably) move on from AITA once the jonesing tapers off but Unresolved Mysteries was my comfort community.
MFW
Glad to hear it's not just me experiencing that. There's a lot of bugs they need to iron out. But I'm looking forward to seeing lemmy and the whole threadiverse thing grow.
This is fixed now, they deployed 0.18
MFW https://media0.giphy.com/media/lrE7YHleIbm2PtY1RL/giphy.gif
It's pretty fun here!
Pretty fun. 7/10
8/10 with rice
Whipping out the classics already?
5/7 if we’re being serious
I'd rate it a perfect 5/7
I used RIF for almost a decade. It's sad to see it go.
50k karma but glad I deleted my account.
They were just numbers on a screen.
So are transactions and bank accounts. Imagine the world when we'll get rid of those.
But what will I trade for goods and services now?
Welcome to socialised social networking! We share our goods and services, trade is unnecessary!
Except maybe to donate to your local instance to help keep it running!
So... are there any apps like rif is fun for lemmy?
I'm using the wefwef.app for a bit today and I like it. Feels very close to RIF, yet you still are aware of the difference. One detail I like is auto-dark mode, and that comments and subsequent replies use colors to show thread height.
I am testing out Jerboa, got a similar feel but missing a few creature comforts. Seems the developer is really working to update and smooth the roughness in the last month so I'm optimistic long term. I'd give it a try!
Jerboa straight up won't work for me (server version issue?). I figure I'll just use the browser for a while and see what apps float to the top after the reddit exodus inspires more apps.
I had the same issue, I think it is a server version issue. I started using Connect which has been working well so far, although there are some UI quirks I had to get used to.
I've been using Liftoff been working really well and I like the design. Reminds me of the RIF feel.
I'll check it out!
My experience,
Summit is the closest. It feels the best to me. But it's barebones and has some hiccups. I had a comment post 14 times this morning. I have high hopes for this one though.
Connect seems the most stable and works well.
Jerboa and Liftoff both work well when they're working. But they've had some bugs and I prefer Connect to them at this point.
My recommendation is to use Connect until you get Lemmy figured out. Then try them all out.
Former RIF user. I tried jeroba but then switched to Connect for Lemmy. Jeroba didn't quite feel right to me. So far I'm enjoying the UI of Connect.
Using Jerboa rn. Scrolling feels a bit clunky.
Using connect and it has a very similar feel.
I did a search for wepwep, but nothing showed up for me in Google play store?
I gave jerboa a soft try but wasn't thrilled with it. Hoping sync will be a good option when that becomes available.
You can give Liftoff a try
There's Connect, I also really like Thunder. Though I'm not using it currently as it hasn't got 2FA support yet.
Connect is pretty damn close, and in some ways even better
Another former RiF user here. Definitely miss the experience of using that app, and Lemmy is certainly new to me. Gonna take some getting used to but it will be interesting to hopefully see this place grow!
Going from RIF to Connect for Lemmy feels like a fever dream at times. Still can't believe RIF is really gone. Anyway Lemmy seems cool, I'm liking it so far.
I'll try connect tomorrow, but I just set up jerboa in android and it feels similar enough that I'm not upset
Hi all. Fuck Spez, onwards we march
Just made my account too. RIP RIF, you were good to me.
Now I'm excited to see what this Lemmy.world is all about - does it have an app on the Play store?
Connect for lemmy working well for me, an ex-rif user!
There are several. Unfortunately, they are all in early alpha. Lemmy wasn't quite ready for the mainstream, so the developers are scrambling a bit. That said, the improvements, even over just the last week or so, are impressive. Even if the apps are currently a bit threadbare and buggy still.
Jerboa is available on the app store. I'm personally using Thunder, though you need to download it from GitHub right now to use it. There are several more out there, but I've not played with them yet.
Ah that's good there are things coming! Looking forward to what the devs can do.
I'll keep a look out! Thanks.
If you don't mind.... can you let us know which app u end up using. I'm hoping to get one that is closest to the RIF app experience of yore
I'm using Connect for Lemmy right now. You'll find it on Play store.
I'm using wefwef.app seems pretty decent so far.
I think the apps will drastically improve in the next month so I'm just using a mobile browser until I see which one becomes the best. The mobile browser is already way better than reddit on a mobile browser so it's not bad.
Same. And your right, the browser for Lemmy right now is SO GOOD.
I've tried half a dozen on Android. wefwef and LiftOff are the best right now IMO
Currently using Connect for lemmy which feels pretty close to RiF, though the Dev of Boost is making an app for android that looks just like RiF from the screenshots so that looks promising! The next couple of months will likely be a period of trial and error for a lot of folk. Exciting times.
You can use any Lemmy reader app, I use jerboa
Jervboa is playing up as they are waiting on an update so the main lemmy.world doest come up.
It has a whole list of apps. Many devs have moved to Lemmy already. Some still in development, others announced. Couple of working ones.
Here's the entire list: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
Likewise. RIF pretty much was Reddit for me so far as regular browsing goes. I may still occasionally use old Reddit on desktop but I've heard rumours that may go as well, with the continued enshittification of Reddit.
Thanks RIF, I believe I used the app about 10 years. Always worked very solid. Looking forward to see what happens here.
Same. Best .99¢ I ever spent
Rest in peace RIF.
Reddit is now officially dead to me. It was a fun ride while it lasted.
Tried the official app after 10 years of RIF and deleted it within minutes. Downloaded Connect and have been enjoying Lemmy a lot!Looks like I've joined the great migration!
Same boat here. The official app is so garbage I don't even have the slightest desire to download it.
Bye RIF :( Hello Lemmy :)
To the end of an addiction 🥂
And to the beginning of a new one!
May it last longer and be stronger and more positive than the previous one.
I was a RIF user for 8 years, and now I'm here. Fuck Spez.
RIF was a cool place and sad to see it go, so cheers to that,
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened-Dr. Seuss
It’s great here. It’s like when Reddit was starting and all you have are genuine people connecting
Absolutely. I don't care if it's wonky or slow. This is what reddit felt like back in 2004..05 when i started. Bring it!
Same, glad to join. I am now realizing how much of a pain it is using old reddit on mobile, fuck that lol. Not touching the official app.
I just went in for the last time and no threads, so uninstalled it.
I honestly did not realize it would bother me this much.
Im keeping RiF on my phone as nostalgia and a reminder. Every time I click that button from muscle memory I can get angry at reddit.
I contemplated doing that as well, but then I also contemplated my high blood pressure and just deleted that shit
I should put it in a folder with Stadia.
Yeah same. I knew it was going hurt losing RIF, but I still wasn't ready for the melancholy that followed .
I'm proud to be done with reddit. I'm eagerly exploring my new addiction. I'm a lemon head.
Lemon head? Is that what we're called?
I can live with that.
Stupid question, of someone replies to me will I get a notification?
Let's find out.
It does! I'm on the Jerboa app and it showed up in my inbox :)
Nice, I'll have to try Jerboa. I'm using liftoff right now. Just getting my feet wet with this whole Lemmy thing after, well, you know...
Yeah, this new setup is a little complicated but I see a lot of potential. As a former karma whore I like the simplicity of just posting for the sake of posting.
After 13 years on Reddit, mostly consumed through RIF and old.reddit, this is now my "frontpage of the internet".
Same here bud. 12 years and now we start again
Rip rif. Bring on the new frontier.
made an account here recently just to see what was up. I didn't mind reddit (albeit it was very clunky and slow, just not an ideal website for me, miss forums a lot) but lemmy seems like the best compromise. Can't wait to see where it goes from here
We need a Lemmy is Fun!
For now, jerboa is a decent working alternative as an app for lemmy.
I can't get logged in through Jerboa. It keeps saying my server is on too low of a version.
I've been using wefwef after Jerboa gave me the same issues. I like it but I've only had it for like 6 hours and havent played around a lot with it yet. Its UI is more like Apollo IIRC from others, but I like it well enough coming from RIF.
Same here.
Seems to be an update issue on the lemmy.world side. In the meantime I'm giving connect for lemmy a shot.
So far, so good.
that will be fixed once lemmy.world updates to the latest version
https://lemmy.world/post/875584
I'm using Connect. It's the only app I've foujd so far that has a list view which is pretty similar to RIF's.
I made a reddit account 7 years ago and used rif most of that time. It was the only thing keeping me on reddit because I was never satisfied with the official app. With rif gone, reddit will only be used as a means of finding answers to questions I search Google with. I hope that I won't have to depend on reddit for long in that regard either.
That's like the biggest net negative - how often do you Google your question with "Reddit" tagged in there to find real people answering your question?
Biggest bummer is seeing people deleting their post history. Like, I get it, but also screwing with troubleshooting for years to come until Reddit slips into obscurity.
Someone is building a search engine for Lemmy. So if Lemmy ever somehow manages to get as popular as reddit, that search engine will be awesome.
We can also always count on Google indexing lemmy content and hopefully being able to add lemmy to search queries in the future for relevant content
yesterday i tried to append reddit to a search and noticed it didn't work as well as usual. so that's an interesting datapoint (to me).
I knew it was coming a month in advance, yet somehow I was still shocked when it stopped working.
The end of an era, to be sure.
Yeah I followed the link too. Didn't know about lemmy before RIF closed
Pleased to be here. Sad to see rif go... But onwards.
Yes, this was a good kick to explore something new.
Yeah I'm into it. I don't forecast myself going back to Reddit.
RIF is still working for me, at least for now. Dreading the moment when it stops. RIF has legit been a part of my life for like 3 years.
Stopped working for me, so here I am! Forgot to delete my posts on Reddit though.
Welcome! I've been here for a couple weeks and it's been pretty cool. Feels a lot more like the old Internet. People seem friendlier too.
Coming to Lemmy benefits hugely from my jump to mastodon (fosstodon); better, Lemmy has text formatting which I really wish Mastodon and/or my server would adapt; I feel like an idiot ALLCAPSING FOR EMPHASIS.
This is kind of nice though; not just old internet, but I don't feel like I'm a slightly unwelcome guest in an established system; everything old is brand new and this time, I can help create it.
To the end of reddit and fuck Spez! (10yr former redditor)
Reddit is Fun is still working for me. I can browse subreddits but I can't post or login.
It's using a different API than the OAUThed one, since everyone was logged out when the API shut down.
Not as much as an api as an xml dump.
Kind of dumb to let that available (since the claimed problem was massive scraping for AI datasets) while blocking posting and upvotes.
It will likely be shutdown too.
The king is dead, long live the king!
One of my last posts on reddit, one of my first upvotes (and now, my first comment) here. Seems fitting.
Is this and RIF style app for here?
Liftoff
I'm really enjoying liftoff. It's got some quirks but overall a solid experience
Feeling very at home on Liftoff having used RiF for 10+ years, can't fault it so far!
Liftoff has been solid for me too. It's a pretty painless transition honestly.
Jerboa is very RiF like. Unfortunately if you use Lemmy.world it won't work until that instance updates. Currently on Connect for lemmy and it is ok.
I definitely miss Jerboa. But the past month has already brought so much chaos to my internet use. What's a little more?
It's working now!!
https://wefwef.app (works best if you open it in Chrome and install it as a progressive web app), it's opensource and has an official community here: [email protected]
But it resembles more Apollo than RIF.
I am using liftoff. I like the look and feel a lot. I used Jerboa at first but have switched to Liftoff.
I am using it in the browser for now. Let's be patient and see where it goes
Haven't found one like rif yet. I've been using either jerboa or connect for lemmy atm. They are functional. If anyone knows one similar to rifs layout please let me know.
Connect for lemmy is best android app from playstore. Liftoff and thunder are big contenders but you have to d/l an apk and install it. Sync is building a lemmy app but it will be a couple of weeks. Jeroba is the official but connect and the others are better.
Liftoff is on the playstore, using it now from there :) Edit: Opps didn't see previous response untill I posted mine
Thanks, it wasn't there a couple of days ago when I looked. I'll install it today. I've only been in the federated world for around three weeks now.
Yah no worries still poking around for apps I like :) Good luck mate
Liftoff is on the playstore too now.
Is Sync supposed to be ready that soon? It's what I mostly used on Reddit, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes out.
Dev is hoping for next 6 weeks, there is a post about pre-signup somewhere in the lemmyverse.
It's one of many. Most of them see the same content even if they're on different servers, so no need to stress about missing out. Happy exploring!
Connect and Summit are both very RiF-like and work very well for me. Jerboa isn't bad but it's buggy at the moment and won't work with lemmy.world
Wefwef seems to be the best option currently, though Boost and Sync both have apps in work that are pretty highly anticipated from what I've seen so far.
Connect for lemmy is best android app from playstore. Liftoff and thunder are big contenders but you have to d/l an apk and install it. Sync is building a lemmy app but it will be a couple of weeks. Jeroba is the official but connect and the others are better.
Didn't feel like waiting for the end, been here a few weeks now.
Happy to be here!
Just created a profile, I was using rif last night when suddenly I got the api error code, really sad to see it go.
I really hope lemmy replaces reddit, plenty of us here but we need more growth.
Liking it so far.
Same sentiment, going to take some work but nothing wrong if it stays a bit different. Digging the decentralization and hoping that means that it can keep a community feel for longer, even as the total number of users in the fediverse grows!
12 Year Old Reddit account gone. Deleted all of my posts and comments.
Same. 13.
RiF user since 2011. I'm now trying replacement apps for Lemmy. Liftoff and Jerboa look pretty good. Am trying Connect for Lemmy, but it looks super buggy right now.
Do you guys recommend any other app to browse Lemmy from the Google Play Store?
The app store apps are a little janky still or now. I just started using wefwef.app (it's a pwa. Just put wefwef.app in your browser) and it's been the best so far. It's a recreation of alien blue for iOS.
Thanks for having us
I'm here as well. I loved the design and feel of RIF.
11 years of Reddit. 42k karma. A top 10 comment in the top 10 posts of all time. Happy to be here and build this up!
Hello!
Still need an invite?
Though I'm not sure how to pm on Lemmy, if it's even possible.
I think you can request an account yourself at tildes.net via and e-mailaddress
https://docs.tildes.net/contact <-- for more info about it
Wow, talk about a nostalgic sounding community name.
Just joined and im having fun exploring. Some apps to play around with https://lemmy.world/post/465785
Thank you! I'm so sad to see RiF go. I'm hopeful for a bright future.
Ok
What was that link? I can't seem to find it again :(
Want to bookmark it.
Coming from RIF, looking forward to contributing here.
Does anyone have a good Lemmy App? I have tried Connect and it is okay, but it is no RIF.
I'm on android and using jerboa. It's pretty similar to rif and I like it well enough so far
I wasn't able to log into it yesterday. Have you had any issues with that?
I have that same issue.
It was buggy at first, so I switched to connect, but it wouldn't load replies (hence me just now replying.) I think bugs are to be expected at first, and it's just a matter of fiddling with various apps until you have the experience you are looking for
Likewise. This is my first comment here. I hope to make a bunch more. Getting off of reddit is very refreshing.
Didn't feel like waiting for the end, been here a few weeks now.
Didn't feel like waiting for the end, been here a few weeks now.
Any good Lemmy app replacing rif? Looking for the ability to show tow rows of cards like rif. I seem to be in the minority for using that feature.
Download Connect for Lemmy, I think reverse row is what you want. You can change it in the settings. I used RIF the same way
I use to like Jerboa, but after several timeouts, not differentiating between instances, and multiple errors I gave others a try. I downloaded wefwef.app and I've been liking it so far. I think I'll be using it until a polished native version comes out.
I'm on liftoff at the moment, loving it.
RIF was the app that I used when I decided to go deeper into Reddit. Been using it for the past 7 years until today. You will be missed.
I bought reddit is fun on Feb 14, 2014. Wow
Same.
Hello, fellower RIF users.
Time to see what this place has. Kinda like moving into a new house.
I was always something of a lurker, but I just deleted my 10+ years (most of them with RIF) account with 1000's of comments etc.
It's weird how sad I feel, it's like cutting of a part of yourself.