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! 🍻
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.
We need a Lemmy is Fun!
50k karma but glad I deleted my account.
And this is why lemmy is better, there is no karma. Don’t need to worry about fake internet points now!
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!
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
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.
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!
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.
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
I used RIF for almost a decade. It’s sad to see it go.
Hi all. Fuck Spez, onwards we march
To the end of an addiction 🥂
And to the beginning of a new one!
May it last longer and be stronger and more positive than the previous one.
Tried the official app after 10 years of RIF and deleted it within minutes. Downloaded Connect and have been enjoying Lemmy a lot!Looks like I’ve joined the great migration!
Same boat here. The official app is so garbage I don’t even have the slightest desire to download it.
Bye RIF :( Hello Lemmy :)
I was a RIF user for 8 years, and now I’m here. Fuck Spez.
Stupid question, of someone replies to me will I get a notification?
Let’s find out.
It does! I’m on the Jerboa app and it showed up in my inbox :)
Nice, I’ll have to try Jerboa. I’m using liftoff right now. Just getting my feet wet with this whole Lemmy thing after, well, you know…
Yeah, this new setup is a little complicated but I see a lot of potential. As a former karma whore I like the simplicity of just posting for the sake of posting.
Rip rif. Bring on the new frontier.
I made a reddit account 7 years ago and used rif most of that time. It was the only thing keeping me on reddit because I was never satisfied with the official app. With rif gone, reddit will only be used as a means of finding answers to questions I search Google with. I hope that I won’t have to depend on reddit for long in that regard either.
That’s like the biggest net negative - how often do you Google your question with “Reddit” tagged in there to find real people answering your question?
Biggest bummer is seeing people deleting their post history. Like, I get it, but also screwing with troubleshooting for years to come until Reddit slips into obscurity.
Someone is building a search engine for Lemmy. So if Lemmy ever somehow manages to get as popular as reddit, that search engine will be awesome.
We can also always count on Google indexing lemmy content and hopefully being able to add lemmy to search queries in the future for relevant content
yesterday i tried to append reddit to a search and noticed it didn’t work as well as usual. so that’s an interesting datapoint (to me).
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.
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.
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.
