• seemefeelme@infosec.pubEnglish
    11·
    2 天前

    Boost was taken away for Reddit and swiftly given back to me for Lemmy. Bless the Boost devs and Lemmy hosts for saving me from the official Reddit experience 🤢

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    199·
    3 天前

    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
      53·
      3 天前

      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.world
        English
        15·
        3 天前

        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
        8·
        3 天前

        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.

    • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      3 天前

      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.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        31·
        3 天前

        my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars

        Made this a couple weeks ago for you

  • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    98·
    3 天前

    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

    • Sabin10@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 天前

      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
        4·
        3 天前

        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.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 天前

      Same. I had gotten the paid version because the dev deserved something for such a great app. RIF died and I did a hard cutover to Lemmy. Deleted my Reddit account and probably caused some confusion for the cordcutters subreddit. I had a post which was part of the sidebar for about a decade.

    • mad_lentil@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      2 天前

      You decided on a new home yet? What’s your selection criteria.

      I’d be tempted to make a single user instance, given how there’s an ansible playbook you can just run.

  • robocall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    3 天前

    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.

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    74·
    3 天前

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

    • TheOgreChef@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 天前

      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
        4·
        2 天前

        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
      11·
      3 天前

      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
        3·
        3 天前

        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! 🤣💪😺

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      3 天前

      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.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          3 天前

          I already wanted to do it anyway for a bunch of other reasons, so really they were doing me a favor by really providing additional motivation.

  • hapablap@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    21·
    3 天前

    When reddit announced that they were going public I knew the end was nigh. Money corrupts everything. What made reddit cool was the users and reddit just wanted to suck that dry. I was happy to leave but I pretty much just lurked on Reddit so it wasn’t that hard.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      2 天前

      I loved that app and I still miss it (and reddit) in some ways, but the API Apocalypse was when I decided I had to take a moral stand and quit. No way was I going to be railroaded into the first-party app full of ads and nonsense.

      I haven’t looked back since.