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! 🍻
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.
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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.
Me too. Sucks to see if go, but heres to new beginnings
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.
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
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
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.
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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?
As another RIF user who tried Jerboa, I agree with what you said. But I’m just too lazy to try something else as this is still decent enough for me.
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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
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
