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! 🍻
After 13 years on Reddit, mostly consumed through RIF and old.reddit, this is now my “frontpage of the internet”.
Same here bud. 12 years and now we start again
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.
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.
Me too. Sucks to see if go, but heres to new beginnings
Same. 10 years or RIF. This seems like a cozy place!
Rip rif. Bring on the new frontier.
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
Does anyone have a good Lemmy App? I have tried Connect and it is okay, but it is no RIF.
I’m on android and using jerboa. It’s pretty similar to rif and I like it well enough so far
I wasn’t able to log into it yesterday. Have you had any issues with that?
I have that same issue.
It was buggy at first, so I switched to connect, but it wouldn’t load replies (hence me just now replying.) I think bugs are to be expected at first, and it’s just a matter of fiddling with various apps until you have the experience you are looking for
Likewise. This is my first comment here. I hope to make a bunch more. Getting off of reddit is very refreshing.
Hi all. Fuck Spez, onwards we march
Reddit is Fun is still working for me. I can browse subreddits but I can’t post or login.
I was a RIF user for 8 years, and now I’m here. Fuck Spez.
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.
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.
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.
I used RIF for almost a decade. It’s sad to see it go.
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
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
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.
So… are there any apps like rif is fun for lemmy?
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.
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.
Connect is pretty damn close, and in some ways even better
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 connect and it has a very similar feel.
I did a search for wepwep, but nothing showed up for me in Google play store?
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.
Just made my account too. RIP RIF, you were good to me.
Now I’m excited to see what this Lemmy.world is all about - does it have an app on the Play store?
There are several. Unfortunately, they are all in early alpha. Lemmy wasn’t quite ready for the mainstream, so the developers are scrambling a bit. That said, the improvements, even over just the last week or so, are impressive. Even if the apps are currently a bit threadbare and buggy still.
Jerboa is available on the app store. I’m personally using Thunder, though you need to download it from GitHub right now to use it. There are several more out there, but I’ve not played with them yet.
Ah that’s good there are things coming! Looking forward to what the devs can do.
I’ll keep a look out! Thanks.
