Been a good couple of years

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!

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

100% RIF was the best, when it went bye bye so did I

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

Yep that's me. RIF was so good. Why would a website cannibalize itself like this?

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.

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 🤢

Hey, thats me! 2 years already?!?! Freakin crazy

Man two years, feels so much shorter

It's been 2 years already?!

Shit, it's been 2 years already? Damn. I still get bummed over RiF when I think about it.

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.

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!

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.

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"!

I feel noticed and my personal need for validation has been abated, thank you JBalls

Sync FTW

I still miss rif 😭

I was sync for me, but hell yeah, it's been a good couple of years.

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?

Came when RIF went down for good. Never looked back.

For me it was Apollo

Still miss RiF and what reddit used to be.

For much of reddit's best years, RiF was my top app.

It's already been 2 years?? Damn

Oh man I'm still not over that. Such a stupid decision on Reddit's part.

Holy crap! I just got used to thinking that its been over a year since the blackout... but that shocking realization was a year ago now. Thanks, everyone!

WHERE THE FUCK IS LEMMY IS FUN

Hey that's me

That was me

And now my instance is shutting down 🤡

Congrats Lemmy. Way better than Reddit shit show.

Cheers y'all.

Hopped over to Lemmy around that time and learned about the Fediverse. And now I'm checking out PieFed.

What a ride it's been.

I'm so happy with Voyager being a really good replacement for Apollo. If you use it, donate to the dev. Building apps this good, solo, is hard.

Never used RiF, but I left at the same time. The writing was on the wall.

Wait, it's been two years already?

Reddit really turned into yet another brainrot doom scroll website.

I think back to what it used to be, how I used to engage with the communities and it's depressing to see how that was lost. I miss the old API especially. I used to have personal project around it that helped me use it. It was fun to develop and maintain, and it really helped me out browsing reddit.

when they changed the api ruled I tried still to use it, but their interface to create an account to use the free api (I was querying so little it would have applied to use the free api), never worked. I tried for months until finally giving up.

Same. I used the little picture widget to cycle adorable animal pictures all day on my home screen. The one little thing that gave me joy, fucking ruined by corporations. While I don't have a widget anymore, I at least have someplace I can talk for 5 minutes and have someone listen.

Jerboa has served well as the replacement for me.

It's been pretty good too. Thanks everyone for making this collection of sites fun and interesting! Fedi is awesome 😎

I created an account two years ago, but was using boost and it kept working up until a few months ago. The combination of Boost not working and Nazis taking over Reddit so even the desktop old reddit was pointless to use.

Now I use Boost for Lemmy for mobile.

BaconReader for me.

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 genuinely can’t believe it’s been so long

that was a fast 2yrs

In 10 days my account will be 2 years old.

I've enjoyed it, and this has been one of my most visited websites during that time. But I'm still not sure I'll stick around after lemm.ee shuts down at the end of this month.

I never used RIF but I came over at the same time due to the fuckery over mods. I quit all my mod positions that day too, no more working for Reddit for free.

didn't all 3rd party apps stop working

Woohoo ! Happy Anniversary! Deleted manually 13 years of posts and comments.

I got sitebanned a couple weeks before RIF officially died so not quite the same anniversary, close enough though :)

This me. Do we get snacks?

Speaking of which, a recent Android update (I know I should change OSes) got rid of the little Lemmy.world web app icon thing I had installed and I haven't been able to get it back, so far. Does anyone know how to fix that? That was working great as my RIF replacement. I read it all again and I'm such a grandma. :(

Sometimes I forget how long it's been!

I’ve only been here since the start of the year but I’m happy to be here.

I told reddit I wouldn't be back and I meant it. RIF was perfect and they didn't deserve the defeat and lies they received for just trying to share reddit to more people in a better manner. Fuck /u/spez

Thx brah

Cheers

What's RIF? I joined when BaconReader stopped working

I stopped using RIF when the dumbass who developed it started whining about open source and monetary remuneration. The app became popular in large part because it was open source.

It’s just like the nutsack who founded GitHub. A literal GPLv2 program and the guy got super rich and famous, then extolled the virtues of using lax permissive licenses. Absolute tool.

2 years and 2 weeks. I must have left a tad early.

3 months short for me but that's because it took me that long to figure out how Lemmy worked.

I mean... Lemmy has always kinda felt more sane

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?

I pour one out for Bacon Reader

best thing i did on reddit was leaving and coming to lemmy.

I wasn't on reddit, but I did hear a lot of buzz about lemmy around that time, so I decided to check it out. It's been one of the better places I've enjoyed for discussion.

Did anyone leave because they were banned? Because that was me.

I still have rif on my phone for it's sentimental value. Two years ago it took a while to get used to opening Connect for Lemmy instead of rif.

I replaced RIF with Stealth. It's actually a really excellent read-only client that you can subscribe to subs and view content without contributing anything to Reddit.

Cheers for infinity, may it rest in peace.

I'm currently using Eternity for lemmy (fork)

Still using rif today,

Checkout revanced.

Ads free youtube and patching rif to work with your api key

Honestly Lemmy has been way better for me for my phone habits. Just enough content but not too much

Cheers 🥂

I patched my Sync and RIF so they still work fine. But I'm here anyway!

Wow, it's been 2 years already? Time flies! Cheers to the leavers

Wow 2 years already?! Let's fucking go Lemmy!

Hey thanks man, those two years flew!

Oh, it went down finally? I wonder if whatever Eternity is based on died

Me!! Cheers 🍸

I joined when Reddit started milking their users

Two year anniversary just a few days ago. Also left when RiF stopped working. Really nice to see Lemmy activity continually going up with each passing day, but the quality hasn’t gone down. Very much enjoying it!