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Reddit Was Fun

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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023

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[–] alnilam 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just woke up, opened the app out of habit, saw a 429 error, and uninstalled. There's an empty spot on my home screen now that I'll fill with LiftOff after a mourning period

[–] Robocopsicle 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Granted I used Sync and not RiF (though I initially used RiF from like 2013-2015), but it looks so weird seeing the green Liftoff logo on my home screen, which has been largely unchanged for the past 8 years since I started using Sync.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both Sync & RiF have patches available from the ReVanced team, they've taken the API keys from the official Reddit app and you can then inject them into Sync/RiF using:

https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager

[–] Kojak747 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you expand on this please, what is it, and what does it do?

[–] Riprif 1 points 1 year ago

Revanced is a tool some people made to patch apps. It was built to be a successor to vanced which was when basically they distributed modded adfree YouTube APKs. Google sent them a cease and desist, so they built a tool to mod apps yourself.

[–] Zippy 2 points 1 year ago

You likely know but maybe others will see this. Sync for Lemmy is now available.

[–] forfe1t 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jerboa with some minor tweaks in settings (list mode, amoled etc.) looks just like RIF for me. However the comments section is not accurate, but still does a pretty good job. Try it out.

[–] Rakonat 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] alnilam 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a Lemmy app that I like. The standard web app version of Lemmy feels cluncky to me, and I like the presentation of LiftOff

[–] Rakonat 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, thanks for the info, using Connect to Lemmy myself, will have to try LiftOff see which I like more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One of the new Android apps, Jerboa & Liftoff are open source available on F-Droid. I'm using Connect for Lemmy available on the playstore and Boost will be available soon as well as a myriad of other apps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

is one of the new Lemmy mobile native apps. I tested it (Android) but so far "Connect for reddit" is the best in terms of stability and functionality. I don't care so much about desing myself. Although both have nice desings imo.

[–] Sigmatics 2 points 1 year ago

You mean Connect for Lemmy?

[–] seperis 3 points 1 year ago

Same same. It was awful to realize it had really happened.