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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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Happy cake day!
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.
The post has been since deleted, but someone was trying to last three days without pooping.
Lol one of the comments was:
first day on lemmy, and this is the shit i see right off the bat. I found my reddit replacement.
I felt exactly the same way
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.
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.
Wasn’t RIF fir me, it was Apollo. But same general reason!
Some niche communities I miss (I know, I know. Make them! I’m a follower not a leader, and my schedule is bad enough already. I have substitutes). But overall Lemmy good.
I’m here for news and shitposts and random TILs.
Fuck Spez!
Yes Apollo!! I used it on my iPad, but boost was and now still is my go to. As soon as Boost was done, I jumped to Lemmy. I wasn’t sure if I would stick around in the beginning, but I’m so glad that I have. I have thoroughly been enjoying my time here
Scrolled until I saw an Apollo post. I miss the old days on Reddit. As much as I want it to be the same here, it simply isn’t.
Baconreader refugee here
This me. Do we get snacks?
The office ordered everyone beans. You can have some during your break.
It’s been 2 years already?!
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.
Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.
For much of reddit’s best years, RiF was my top app.
didn’t all 3rd party apps stop working
Comet for Reddit worked for much longer than most others. Had it on my mothers ipad and browsed reddit when i visited her.
Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.
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.
Cheers y’all.
Hopped over to Lemmy around that time and learned about the Fediverse. And now I’m checking out PieFed.
What a ride it’s been.
obligatory fuck spez and the corpos
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
Lol same here. Jesus that whole site is atrocious now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
100% RIF was the best, when it went bye bye so did I
