cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40087740
Happy ruleversary
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.
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.
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.
my neighbors are trekkies and Linux, as a fan of windows and star wars
Made this a couple weeks ago for you
Shit, it's been 2 years already? Damn. I still get bummed over RiF when I think about it.
It could have been a top Lemmy app if open sourced...
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.
Man two years, feels so much shorter
2000s were only 5 years ago
And the nineties 15 years 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
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.
This is exactly when and why I stopped using Reddit permanently and switched to Lemmy. If you run out of "Active" content here, try switching to "Hot". And then "New"!
Or just go outside and touch grass. Running out of content means that you should do something else.
I was one of those RIF users that left two years ago and now I have to start over since lemm.ee is shutting down. Can anyone recommend a good instance?
I've been on sh.itjust.works for the last couple of years. The admins are cool as hell. Highly recommend.
Seconded. It's pretty chill here.
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.
Never used RiF, but I left at the same time. The writing was on the wall.
I joined when Apollo went silent. Coincidentally, I'm wearing my Clipollo t-shirt as I type this.
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.
Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.
For much of reddit's best years, RiF was my top app.
Oh man I'm still not over that. Such a stupid decision on Reddit's part.
Hey, at least it brought us here. And now that Lemm.ee is going away I'm doing this whole thing again.
For me it was Apollo
Apollo walked so Voyager could run
Baconreader refugee here
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.
10 years on reddit but when they fucked over the Apollo dev I had no problem giving him a couple bucks for the app and moving to Lemmy, haven’t looked back.
I joined about half a year after the 3rd party apps died. Reddit's decision back then still feels like it was more recent than just 2 years ago, though...
Can time stop speedrunning itself, please?
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!
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 🤢
Yep that's me. RIF was so good. Why would a website cannibalize itself like this?
Me!! Cheers 🍸
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