RiF was my first Reddit app ever and stayed an app I kept installing on new phones over the years

For me it was hands down the best. I'm a little disappointed that the developers are working on Tildes as opposed to Lemmy, but I can't be mad, the value I got from Rif whenever I bought it all those years ago I feel like I stole their time with how well they took care of that app for years after purchase.

I'll check out tildes once the app drops for it. Good to have multiple different options.

For some reason RIF is still working on my phone

It actually hurt a little to uninstall it tonight.

I'm keeping it on mine as a sort of weird shrine to the old world, but yeah man, clicking it out of years of habit just to get an error message really hurts.
- Same, I didn't uninstall it but I removed the icon. I still instinctively go for it...muscle memory.

Easily consumed half my phone usage for the last 10 years. Went down with the ship to the very end this evening. I will miss it, but this probably for the best for my mental health and well being. Withdrawal is a bitch though.

I was on rif since 2010.

I hope rif dev makes a lemmy version. Rif was goated

He is making an app for tildes.net.

Same.

Me too, I'm not going back and starting from scratch with reddit and also giving them an email address. It's so bloated, full of bots, and completely slanted to one side that keeps deforming as people one-up each other's radicalism. Reddit was the perfect example of power corrupting.

Anyone have a good/like RIF android app suggestion? Also what is an "instance"?

An instance is basically a Lemmy “app”. These “apps” or instances of Lemmy are being run on some server somewhere. Could be your own server you set up or a pre-existing one like lemmy.world setup by someone else. Each instance or “app” is also connected to every other Lemmy instance unless explicitly blacklisted. This why you sometimes see urls in peoples user names and communities. They’re posting from someone else’s Lemmy server (not the one you’re logged in to).

The idea is if one instance goes down, Lemmy as a whole will continue to run so long as one is still running. It also allows people who to host their own for whatever reason they may have, whether that be differences of opinion with existing instances or simply because they want their own set of communities.