• jballs@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    I remember 2 years ago trying out Lemmy and getting a few laughs about beans and trying not to poop. I thought “this is ok, but I don’t think this will ever replace Reddit in my day to day.”

    But I stuck with it and have come to love and appreciate Lemmy. The number of users has continued to grow and I feel like there’s enough content here now that I never feel bored. Plus I feel like even small posts and comments get attention and we’re not just screaming into the void.

    So happy cake day to all who did the same thing!

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Same, cant believe it was 2 years ago. I was really bummed when it happened.i had been on reddit for almost 15 years at that point.

      • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Fucking same.

        I deleted my main account once they first came out with the reddit recap, and deleted my replacement when they fucked RIF, never to return.

        I still lurk without an account sometimes, but that’s all they’ll ever get out of me.

      • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I deleted my account before RIF died, as the writing was on the wall. I check Reddit accountless if there is a big news story, but tend to avoid it otherwise.

        Honestly I miss (the old) reddit sometimes, but Lemmy has been really enjoyable. My reddit account was getting old anyways, I’d already seen all the content that was reposted every year or so and was just getting annoyed. I absolutely do not miss the aggression of every reddit thread, I feel like we are generally all on the same team here.

        I guess that is kind of the downside of Lemmy too - if you’re not a very specific type of person, it probably won’t appeal to you. And I guess that can sort of result in an echo chamber, although it seems instead of arguing about the left and the right, we argue about the far left and the farther left.

    • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      This is what early reddit was like honestly. I don’t think lemmy will hit reddit’s peak popularity but I don’t think anyone wants any lemmy instance near that popular

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      Kind of same, I remember making a login like dropping my bags in an empty apartment like “well this is home now” and my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars. Wondering if I could hack it here. Just said fuck it we ball and started posting to try and decorate the place, hoping to be part of the Lemmy that made a difference and gets us noticed among the turmoil.

      Seems like we didnt quite make it compared to BlueSky as a reddit/Twitter supplanted, but thats ok, I think in retrospect I’ve made a fair number of people happy to see my posts, and hope I have at least helped a couple of (mostly) meme communities get either noticed or traction. (Sorry jojokes, I just ran out guys, I didnt want to dig into low effort to keep posting, people deserve some standard of quality)

      RiF still lives on my phone, hoping one day I can use it again.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      trying not to poop

      Why…were you trying not to poop? Or was this a meme I missed? I remember the beans.

      Yeah, Lemmy had absolutely been great over the last year. 6-hour Top sorting is absolutely key here.

      Is it a one-for-one replacement? No. There are a lot of communities that haven’t been able to come over effectively. But the main core communities have and it’s been fantastic.

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I joined when Apollo went silent. Coincidentally, I’m wearing my Clipollo t-shirt as I type this.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Didn’t we have like months of warning before the API shutdown? I recall I was already upset about a ton of other shit over there (had been for years) and as soon as I started hearing rumors or stories about the API fuckery, I headed to Lemmy way before the apps stopped working.

    • TheOgreChef@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Ditto. I was an Alien Blue fan that jumped to Apollo then to Voyager once the APIs went down. I apparently have a type when it comes to Reddit and Lemmy apps.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Same here. I had Alien Blue gold for the longest time too. Then Apollo saved the day and got so good. Reddit without it was useless ad garbage with a heavy slow UI. The fact it was so enshitified was the final nail in the coffin for me.

    • bran_buckler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Me as well! Unfortunately, I joined an instance that went dark (kbin), so I’ve got 2 lemmy cake days, I guess.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I went from Reddit to Kbin to StarTrek.Website and when every action was taking >1 minute and needing to be repeated, switched again to Discuss.Online, which I am very happy with and remain to this day.

        Except I also switched to PieFed.social and use that 95% of the time now.:-)

        It’s been a bit of a wild ride! 🤣💪😺

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Rif somehow shielded me from all the fuckery that was happening in Reddit, when I finally tried the mobile app and website from longer than 2 mins, I was like, oh yeah, ah, ok, bye

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        They’re thick in the “ads bring us more money than making improvements” phase of corporate bullshit now.

        Reddit still can’t make a better app than the ones made by solo developers who just did it as a passion project, but they’ve got enough money to throw around for a Superbowl ad spot and an entire ad campaign on YouTube.

        • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          their mobile app isn’t even their own base code. they bought out Alien Blue, which was one of the earliest and arguably best mobile apps for Reddit, and relaunched it as their own. all they had to do was not fuck that one up and they would have straight up driven the other popup 3rd party apps out of business by just being good and official. but of course, reddit must always rise to their incompetence.

    • Sabin10@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Old reddit does the same thing on desktop but if that goes away I’ll be fully done with it. As it is I am about an 80/20 split between lemmy and reddit now so it’s probably going to happen regardless but that would speed things up.

      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Ya, sadly there is still a lot of useful content in the technical subreddits. So I find myself ending up there via search engines on a fairly regular basis. But, I specifically use the Redirector plugin for Firefox to auto-magically force the use of old Reddit. If I hit the site on my work computer, I’m quickly reminded about why I quit the site.

  • b_n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    Piling on another comment to say that lurking here feels much nicer than on reddit. The comments are actually worth reading a lot of the time. RiF going down was a dark day, but Jerboa and Lemmy make everything light.

    • Alaik@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Because reddit is mostly bots and shills now. Lemmy will be up and coming soon and then it’ll be even more astroturfed due to how easy it easy to do that on this platform.

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I loved RIF and was addicted to Reddit. But they dumped me and I am scorned and will never forgive reddit! Fuck reddit and I hope it dies.

    • loppwn@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Comet for Reddit worked for much longer than most others. Had it on my mothers ipad and browsed reddit when i visited her.

  • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.

    For much of reddit’s best years, RiF was my top app.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months 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.

    • Macallan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      4 months ago

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

        • jballs@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          01·
          4 months ago

          Really? Do posts show as read for you? Maybe Lemmy.world is still running an old version of Lemmy. Once sh.itjust.works patched to a new version 8 or 9 months ago, Sync became completely unusable for me.

          • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Oh fuck. That is really going to suck once I can’t use it:/

            Edit: yes, posts are marked as read

            • jballs@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
              01·
              4 months ago

              Huh weird. I’ve got an account on .world and if I use that with Sync, posts don’t show get marked as read for me. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.