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As much as I like browsing the Fediverse with Liftoff, RIF was just such a refined app. At the end RIF was what Reddit could have been.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

I get a 429 now, sad times are here.

Long live lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] PRUSSIA_x86 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apollo is gone as well. Honestly, more legitimately sad than I expected. Mid-scrolling comments it closed out and no longer opens. I think I’d have preferred not to experience its death and it just happened while I slept lol. Memmy on iOS seems to be what I’ll move too and it is rapidly improving, but Apollo was just so damn good. Shucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah posting this from Memmy. Really impressed with how far the app has improved in just a week to two.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So sad. I'm enjoying the fediverse so far but it just doesn't have the userbase to support the more niche communities I enjoy on reddit.

[–] Zdah 3 points 2 years ago

This is how I'm feeling right now too. I'm hopeful that the userbase will expand quickly though.

[–] deepblue 2 points 2 years ago

I think it's the perfect blank canvas for us to start building of the kinds of communities we want to see here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So ling, RIF. You will be missed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah Reddit is fun was the og imo. Remember browsing that shit circa 2013 on my nexus 5 lol. Pour one out for the homies xx

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll miss my RIF 😭

Hello Lemmy 😎

[–] LimeStone 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anyone know which lemmy app is most similar to rif? I've been using jerboa which is decent. OP mentioned liftoff which isn't quite my style. I'd prefer being able to see 10+ posts at a time like I could do in rif.

[–] DementedGael 1 points 2 years ago

Connect if you're using Android is quite good

[–] deepblue 1 points 2 years ago

I'm using connect for lemmy. Not 100% the same, but good enough. If you're patient you could wait for boost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yep it's dead. What a shame.

Longest serving app on all my Android devices since 2012

Every time I got a new phone, one of the first apps I would install was RIF.

Fuck u/spez for ruining a great experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Baconreader user here. Same fate as the rest of the good apps. Trying out Jeroba for the Fediverse. Seems nice so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am still using Apollo with my own key. But well RIP to the apps. Will be missed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have Infinity installed with my own key, but I realized how much reddit kinda sucks so I just stopped using it overall anyways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can’t really stop using Reddit since I mod a university sub. But yea it went to shit for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One day your university 'sub' will be a uni hosted instance on ActivityPub, possibly Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I really hope that happens but for now nobody moved even when I created a Lemmy instance for them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] Izzoyournizzo 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's a sad day. RIF was my long time friend. Fuck spez.

RIP RIF

Hello new Lemmy Fam ❤️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

that sure was a neat run of a decade using this one app, massive respect to the devs!

[–] Peachy175 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

lemmy.world is already getting so much slower now

[–] Kwaker76 1 points 2 years ago

Baconreader gone :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So long and thanks for all the fish.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Infinity seems to still work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The RIF dev probably revoked this API key himself before to reddit admins got the chance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

reddit is now bored