Even as somebody who has never used, and will likely never need Apollo, I am really grateful for what he did. However unintentionally, I think he ripped the mask off how rotten the management structure was. It's one thing to sell ads and collect hidden metadata. Pretty much all the apps do it. But the whole way Reddit treated him was beyond despicable.
I just joined Lemmy today after uninstalling Reddit Is Fun. It was absolutely surreal just how much habit was in pulling out my phone and pressing the space where RIF used to be. Decided I'm kind of mostly done with Reddit other than quick information look ups on the website.
So here I am! First post! The only constant in life is change. Hello everyone, I hope we all get along! :)
I think a lot of moderators are just going to back down and return to business-as-usual from tomorrow. Reddit will suffer as a business but this isn't going to downright kill the site. Unlike say... Tumblr or OnlyFans, Reddit has a far more diverse clientele and many of them couldn't give a shit about third-party apps.
These half-arsed protests staged after the 14th June have told me that most of Reddit's mods are fucking cowards who are more afraid of losing their status as internet janitors than all the third-party apps.
Reddit's moderators could easily bring the site to its fucking knees if they just collectively stopped enforcing any rules (including site-wide ones), removed Automoderator, unbanned every single user, then told everyone to just go nuts.
The mods of /r/interestingasfuck had the right idea by encouraging users to post NSFW content, since this would have chased away advertisers in droves.
I mean the whole "sexy pics of John Oliver" protest that /r/pics had isn't going to chase away advertisers, but having your content displayed alongside a flood of explicit pornographic images definitely will.
Highly recommend purging / editing your comments before you go. I used PowerDeleteSuite for my main and alt accounts and it worked really well. If you've got thousands of comments and heaps of data it'll take ages, but it's an important step, leave them with nothing they can monetize
Already seeing high latency for our instance. Guessing everyone realized the impending doom and created accounts on one of the easier instances to join. Welcome, fellow lemmings!
The vibrant ecosystem of third party apps is what made Reddit, from what I've heard even the official app is a reskin of what used to be a third party apps. Pushing that ecosystem to Lemmy (I have 7 actively developing Lemmy apps installed on my phone) could spell eventual death for Reddit, and was a very unwise long term decision.
At this point I just want to see it suffer lmao
Can confirm, it completely cracked
I'll add the obligatory farewell to RIF - "the app I was happy to pay for". This seems like an interesting alternative - I hope the back end is up for it! I won't be going back to Reddit on principle.
Those API changes will be the death of Reddit. When I glanced at RIF today in my app list and remembered it was offline, that brought me here finally. I held out hope that Spez wouldn't stand his ground but he did and now here we are. And this is my first post here, first of many. I hope this place thrives.
Got here after RIF died, so sorry for being part of the chaos.
I don't post much, but I hope I'll be a positive addition here.
another RIF user checking in. Good to have a place to come to. Let's hope this turns into something really good
o7
Thank you Boost for many years of great service.
R.I.P. RIF.
*ladies and gentlemen, this isn’t reddit pal!
I wonder how many people who didn't understand Reddit that well and just used it to scroll r/aww just woke up to disabled third party apps one day and figure that Reddit went under. I have to imagine they lost less internet literate users.
It's going to be fun see even the apps that remain no longer being served porn. They're repating the tumblr idiocy. But I understand it's because it's for their planned IPO and investors dislike that stuff.
Change is good. I'm looking forward to the fresh take Lemmy will have.
First comment. Looking forward to the new(ish) community full of familiar faces.
I have a weird request to the other Redfugees: I had considered going through and nuking my entire post history for all of my accounts. But then I realized that a lot of the advice that I've given on /linux and /python would be lost. I'm not a master at either, but I like to think that I've helped people out.
So before deleting everything as a (justified!) middle finger to a terrible CEO, take into account that what you've written is a part of a tapestry of internet history. 99.99% is trite. But you never know what future generations will find interesting or useful.
Just my $0.02.
It's been an honor folks o7
Sync for reddit brought me here. Bye Reddit Heyo Lemmy
lemmy may have growth pains, but I don't expect reddit exit to be a crash more than a slow burn.
It's been an honour, everyone. o7
Hello, coming from Infinity for Reddit! (still working btw)
Comming from BaconReader 🥓
Holy shit I'm ontye hot section lmao
Gonna be on Apollo for the last few seconds.
Rip RIF. Still figuring things out, really looking forward to the old internet vibe
Hiya Lemmy.world, another Reddit refugee here, pleased to join you fine folk.
So just got on Lemmy.world using the memmy app. Made it super simple to join which I feel will really help this grow as the less tech savvy will be able to join.
My Sync just stopped working, says I am rate limited with 0 calls remaining.
Guess it's the end of an era and start of a new.
Gentlemen, Ladies, it's been an honour. Time to go down with the ship....
Reddit was a fucking garbage dump and I am glad it's finally going to be dead. Long live literally any new social media platform so long as it doesn't engender a culture of nastiness, vitriol and hate.
I really hope it doesn’t crash too hard because I’m just getting getting started
Reddit is just mad they made a better UX then they did. I mean...they freaking bought alien blue....and threw it in the trash.
Sometimes things have to burn to make room for new things to blossom. I hope this is one of those times.
🫡🫡🫡🫡
Former Boost user happy with the new home. Also, Boost is being ported to Lemmy :)
freedom!!! bye reddit.
Started on RiF but changed to Boost. I'd say I was angry Reddit is doing this but honestly I'm just sad this is how it ends up.
I wonder how it'll go...
I have my homesteads in Lemmy and kbin staked out to beat the rush. I would like to try out "tildes" if anyone has an invite...
There goes RiF, so there goes me. Almost 12 years of Reddit, gone.
PSA: You can use browser scripts to securely delete your posts and comments. Don't gift Reddit your content. Force search engines to scrub dead Reddit links from their results.
Looking for a new home from Reddit; glad to be among friends!
Let the shit post begin (implode).
Migrating from RIF as well. Here's to better beginnings!
10+ yr rif user, bring it Lemmy
My first lemmy comment. Glad to be here!
I deleted Redditisfun in advance to get used to not having it, let's see how this goes
It’s gonna be sad saying goodbye my account but fuck spez
Fellow RIFugee here moving in to the Fediverse. After 8 years, the moment I opened RIF and could no longer refresh my feed, it felt like the end of a chapter of my life. With every ending comes with new beginnings, so here's to Lemmy and the Fediverse!
I need to remember to screenshot the Forza Horizon 5 tunes for this week before it is too late.
I hope Lemmy really takes off! Deleting my Reddit account tonight. This is the way.
RiF is dead, and so is the vast majority of my Reddit participation.
i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated
Hey all. RiF brought me here. Leaving behind a 12 year Reddit account.
CYA REDDIT!! 8 year old account all deleted and everything I modded is handed down :)
Welcome, everyone! RIP Reddit Sync
i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated
Quick note to anyone looking for an app for Lemmy on Android, if you open lemmy.world (not sure about other instances) in Chrome, click the 3 dots and select "install app" and the website will be installed as a webapp on your device and it works very well.
Also if you're on iOS I believe this functionality is coming in the next update around September.
i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated
i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated
i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated
I'm actually pretty optimistic about reddit in fedi!
Twitter had specific personalities that needed to move for me to join, but Reddit was just anonymous shitposts.
If the feed updates often enough, this is a perfect drop in replacement. Also, crossposting here from Reddit is an easy way to generate content 🤷♀️
Someone scrape Reddit and post it all here. Thxxxxxx.
i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated
