I just joined Lemmy today after uninstalling Reddit Is Fun. It was absolutely surreal just how much habit was in pulling out my phone and pressing the space where RIF used to be. Decided I’m kind of mostly done with Reddit other than quick information look ups on the website.
So here I am! First post! The only constant in life is change. Hello everyone, I hope we all get along! :)
I’m going to leave RIF right where it’s been on my home screen for the last decade, as a little memorial.
I keep turning on my phone and going straight for the empty spot where the rif icon was. Crazy it might take a while to shake
Get a lemmy app and put it there :P
I’ll have to check out what’s currently available. Any recommendation?
Trying out Connect for Lemmy. Seems pretty solid. Open to other suggestions!
This comment is a 1:1 how my day went.
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I’ve just done the same. Are you using an android client? Is there something very similar to RIF?
RIF refugee, I’m using Connect for Lemmy, it’s pretty good. I tried Jerboa and it has a couple more customization options, but it’s much, much buggier in my experience.
Jerboa on play store, babyyy
This thread on the Lemmy Apps community should help you deciding which client you want to stick with
I’m using Connect for Lemmy and went into the settings to change my list to “reversed list” and it feels really close to RIF.
I’ve been using Connect on Android today and it isn’t bad. I’ve heard liftoff is also similar to RIF which I’ll try later tonight.
Hope we have luck in finding a good app!
welcome! Come on in the water’s great!
Same here, but I’m still unsure if Lemmy is a good alternative. Having to sign up for every community just to upvote/downvote, comment, or post seems foolish. Posting, totally fine. Upvote/downvote and comment? That creates a problem.
I would be nice if they had centralized upvote/downvote and comments in one general login if they wanna get more users to migrate. They could allow communities to block that access if they want, for more control so only accepted users can interact, but otherwise it feels like im bound and gagged trying to use this site, at least compared to reddit.
These issues are like programming UI 101: Don’t make the user have to login to too many things or over complicate it or they won’t use it. Because of that I worry this ends up being only content interaction one way so I might as well just go back to TV or corporate media/news sites where users can’t participate.
Edit: huh, I guess you can. Well nvm this is not bad.
As long as your instance is federated with other instances you should be able to upvote/downvote/interact with any other instance’s comments, posts, etc.
You probably were trying to do so with a beehaw.org instance which was recently defederated from most other Lemmy instances
First comment myself - but your sentiment is identical to mine. Hoping Lemmy will grow into a better analog to reddit. I will def miss RIF.
Welcome aboard! 😉
hello, I’m also new here. There are a veritable tonne of third party apps being actively developed for Lemmy. No doubt you’ll find one to fill the void left by RIF in short order
I’m hoping to find a good one. Apollo was fantastic, and I’d love to find something in that vein, but so far searching “lemmy” in the app store for iOS hasn’t turned up anything.
I guess I need to give it a little time.
Deleted my 7-year-old Reddit account today. I’m not willing to leave any contributions to a website that actively wants to prevent me from contributing.
Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.
Hello Memmy 🫡
You may have already seen this, but there is a web app for Lemmy that looks and functions very similar to Apollo:
I’ve been trying it today, and it’s pretty good.
WTF! i been on lemmy for 2 weeks and this is my first time seeing this! Thanks
e: This is friggin amazing!
No prob, fam!
I’m just curious; why is it a web app and not something you can download? The black bar in the bottom of the screen makes it feel weird, also the fact that upvote/downvote colors are reversed. Other than that, it soothens my withdrawals from Apollo, and I think I’ll be using it a fair amount alongside Memmy (which feels nice, it’s not a 100% carbon copy, but familiar)
Click the share button and save it your home screen it’ll save and operate as an app. It’s a web app just a new build option that makes it easier for something to be accessible in multiple ways.
It’s insane because the dev has only been working on this for three weeks. And it’s the best progressive web app I’ve ever seen. Almost feels native on my iPhone other than the lack of haptic feedback.
Damn… I hadn’t been paying attention and thought that was actually exclusively an iOS app when I’d seen it mentioned before… Looks interesting.
You can use it oN Android and feels ilegal, but ilegally awesome.
Nah, it’s for everyone.
And if you save it to your Home Screen as an app it feels really good to use.
Yes… This is what I learned and the reason for my comment. It looks very interesting as I said. Not bad at all.
Holy shit, the developer has put some serious work in. I didn’t know web apps could be that good. There’s some insane attention to detail going on here
Wow! It really does feel very similar to Apollo. It will undoubtedly make the transition easier.
Thanks!
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Check out Memmy if you haven’t already. It’s the best IOS Lemmy app I’ve tried by far, and really reminds me of Apollo.
This web app is really nice too though. It’s cool that we’re getting such good options.
Damn, that looks just like Apollo!
That’s the idea, but better because Fediverse>Reddit.
+1
Incredible, and the dev keeps updating it like twice a day.
I’m also running a copy alongside my instance, thelemmy.club at app.thelemmy.club
I never was really fond of web apps but this is great.
Wefwef feels like home. I was using Apollo for years and this feels very natural
Didn’t the Apollo developer say that he was planning on porting his app to the fediverse?
No, some other apps have
Voyager now… i know this thread us really old.
I hope Reddit fully dies off- that site is a cesspool and deserves to meet a fate similar to tumblr & myspace.
Tumblr? Tf u mean? It’s still doing pretty well, MySpace lost all content posted before 2016 and is now a useless empty husk. Tumblr is just smaller, but still active. This comparison makes no sense.
Yeah. Hell, a bunch of people just joined tumblr from reddit. There’s a whole reddit refugee tag that was trending for a minute there.
I hope Reddit fully dies off- that site is a cesspool and deserves to meet a fate similar to
tumblrDigg & myspace.Eh, its still massively less popular than it used to be before they banned porn, if something similar happens to Reddit, with it becoming a ghosttown in parts of it but still fairly active on larger communities- I’d still consider that a win against them.
Can’t be worse than what Musk just did.
Spez: Challenge Accepted.
Ye, but is it a different website? And at least Twitter original app was half decent.
What did musk just do?
Basically the dude is DDOSing Twitter itself and using it as an excuse to ratelimit up the ass the entire userbase, including ppl who bought Blue (kinda ironic if you ask me lmao)
Even if you’re paying 😂 yeah this seems too intentional to be stupidity, wonder what he gains from tanking twitter
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I hope Lemmy will be successful, and maintain healthy communities.
Just gave you my first upvote! Congrats!
Thank you! Its great to be here!
upvotes all around! engagement!!
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Can confirm, it completely cracked
I’ll add the obligatory farewell to RIF - “the app I was happy to pay for”. This seems like an interesting alternative - I hope the back end is up for it! I won’t be going back to Reddit on principle.
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I think a lot of moderators are just going to back down and return to business-as-usual from tomorrow. Reddit will suffer as a business but this isn’t going to downright kill the site. Unlike say… Tumblr or OnlyFans, Reddit has a far more diverse clientele and many of them couldn’t give a shit about third-party apps.
These half-arsed protests staged after the 14th June have told me that most of Reddit’s mods are fucking cowards who are more afraid of losing their status as internet janitors than all the third-party apps.
Reddit’s moderators could have easily brought the site to its knees if they just collectively stopped enforcing rules (including site-wide ones), removed Automoderator, unbanned everybody, then told the community to just go nuts.
The mods of /r/interestingasfuck had the right idea by encouraging users to post NSFW content, since this would have chased away advertisers in droves.
I mean the whole “sexy pics of John Oliver” protest that /r/pics had isn’t going to chase away advertisers and was something that Spez could easily ignore, but having your content displayed alongside a flood of explicit pornographic images definitely will.
I’d argue it will become like Facebook, with the younger and more intelligent crowd leaving the site.
Excuse me! I’m older and more intelligent, thank you very much.
I’m on the older side, can’t comment anything about the intelligent part.
Visiting Reddit now just feels like watching teenagers raging against bots. Like YouTube on steroids. You can’t convince me anyone there is older than, being generous, 25.
Older-than-me-people (50+) are still playing Candy Crutch on Facebook.
It was actually the olds that left first, the ones who remember what the internet was like before corporations came in and dominated everything.
Medium old. Actual old people make Facebook what it is.
I’d argue that you’re right, and that it has already happened. If the bootlicking crowd on Reddit is actually organic users hearing a call to action to start commenting after months and years of inactivity, that is. Reddit is known to operate large networks of sock puppet accounts for fake engagement and narrative control (per Venture Beat’s reporting, which quotes an admission from Huffman).
Speaking of bootlickers, the last couple of days I’ve seen endless posts from “users” saying no one actually cares, protests failed, protesters are just trying to defend the profits of third party apps etc. Smells of copypasta and astroturfing.
Plausible. With only a fraction of Reddit’s supposed size, Lenny+kbin are already nearing parity in quality of discourse.
The front page has gotten worse and worse over the last few weeks. Posts are just filled with Top Level spam comments with no replies. There has to be some kind of coordinated effort by the admins to make it look like the site is still doing fine.
The protest wasn’t successful, but it’s made enough people think twice about their reddit usage that it did something. I think a lot of the mods thought thought that reddit would cave, and now they haven’t they’re facing the destruction of what many of them have built from next to nothing (Mostly mid size subreddits) they’re not prepared to nuke it all.
Why would they continue work on a site where in reality they have zero control.
Up until now, they probably thought they had, but now it’s clear they don’t.
It now turns out, that mods can be overruled and even excluded from the community they started, for little to no reason.
The mods would need to have some actual conviction instead of being selfish losers for this to happen.
All they care about is their own modding, tools, power, etc
As soon as it looked like they might lose their mod powers they caved.
12 year reddit user that just came here after RIF went down. Excited to meet you all here! It’s my first comment and may there be many, many more.
16-year reddit user of much the same mind. I was a Sync user, but whatever one’s app of choice, if reddit is going to tell us we can’t use it, which is basically what they’ve done, they can get fucked.
11.5 year user migrating today from RIF as well. This is also my first comment here! It’s a sad day, but new horizons are ahead
Those API changes will be the death of Reddit. When I glanced at RIF today in my app list and remembered it was offline, that brought me here finally. I held out hope that Spez wouldn’t stand his ground but he did and now here we are. And this is my first post here, first of many. I hope this place thrives.
Got here after RIF died, so sorry for being part of the chaos.
I don’t post much, but I hope I’ll be a positive addition here.
Even as somebody who has never used, and will likely never need Apollo, I am really grateful for what he did. However unintentionally, I think he ripped the mask off how rotten the management structure was. It’s one thing to sell ads and collect hidden metadata. Pretty much all the apps do it. But the whole way Reddit treated him was beyond despicable.
Agreed. When I saw the Apollo thread, my first thought was ‘Nah, not even spez would do this’ but I choked on that very fast when I saw the e-mails, the audio recordings and everything. It was so blatant, so asinine, so horribly fucked up.
I’ve never used the Apollo app, but millions of people did and in stead of thanking him for all his work, reddit just stabbed him in the back. Can’t believe there are people still taking reddit’s side on this, it’s crazy.
undefined> Can’t believe there are people still taking reddit’s side on this, it’s crazy.
The AMA where Christian called his bluff was just magical.
It blows my mind that people are actually defending Reddit on this.
It blows my mind that people are actually defending Reddit on this.
I seriously think Reddit is operating a sock puppet scheme to push a narrative. They’ve done it before, and they’ve bragged about it to the press.
That is why there are so many baby accounts or long dormant accounts that suddenly came to life in the last couple weeks. This is a company which is coming off a month-long campaign of libeling and slandering its top third party developers, and then gish galloping all over the site after the recordings and emails were published.
Then you have Huffman idolizing Musk, saying he wants to do to Reddit what Musk did to Twitter.
Good third party apps cannot come to Lemmy and Kbin fast enough.
