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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave (www.techdirt.com)
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The landed gentry are only in charge until the king comes to town and chops off a few heads. At least that seems to be the case at Reddit, where CEO Steve Huffman pretended his complaints about current moderators — who were protesting his decision to effectively cut off API access to tons of useful…

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 2 years ago (43 children)

Yeh I’m in the same boat. The day the internal memo came out about how everything will blow over, I deleted Apollo. I haven’t been back to reddit since and after the first week, I don’t even miss it now.

I wish lemmy was a bit busier, but outside of that the general atmosphere and quality here is better. Even if everything was reversed and Spez was booted, I won’t return now.

[–] ThinlySlicedGlizzy 101 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Just wait till the third party apps shut down tomorrow, loads of people will be rolling in here. Then when the RIF and Sync developers release their Lemmy apps (with the same names) even more people will come. If you want there to be content right now though just keep contributing to posts you see. The more content we make right now, the more likely it is for new users to stay,

[–] VubDapple 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Where did you see an announcement about RIF for Lemmy? That's awesome!

[–] bobbysq 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As far as I know, talklittle is focused on making a Tildes app called Three Cheers for now, and had been working it even before the announcement from Reddit. As much as it would be nice to have a Lemmy successor to RIF, the closest we'll probably get any time soon is an app that's just inspired by the RIF design.

[–] Zarxrax 6 points 2 years ago

Just FYI, the app Connect for Lemmy can be configured to look pretty similar to RIF by just toggling a few options.

[–] VubDapple 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the info!

[–] alaphic 3 points 2 years ago

Jerboa is also remarkably close to how rif looks/looked right out of the box

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