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
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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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.
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.
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I'm here as well. I loved the design and feel of RIF.
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.
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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!
reddit was fun. Thank you RIF.
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.
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!
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If you make an account on one instance, you can read and write on the others!
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.
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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
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Does anyone have a good Lemmy App? I have tried Connect and it is okay, but it is no RIF.
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Thank you! I'm so sad to see RiF go. I'm hopeful for a bright future.
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
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.
Reddit is Fun is still working for me. I can browse subreddits but I can't post or login.
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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?
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For now, jerboa is a decent working alternative as an app for lemmy.
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.
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Is this and RIF style app for here?
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!
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