It actually hurt a little to uninstall it tonight.
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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.
I still can't bring myself to do it yet. Just deleted the shortcut
Same. I've had RIF for 10 years. It was the first app I gave 5 stars on Google Play.
Trying the liftoff app, I was also RiF for better part of 10 years, sad evening
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 hope rif dev makes a lemmy version. Rif was goated
He is making an app for tildes.net.
Fr Sync and Boost are confirmed to be getting Lemmy versions already
Between this and the student loan decision, it's a rough night.
They're taking away Sticher now too
I've been using Lemmy for the last few weeks and the amount content is really increasing plus several people are making apps so hopefully one will be close to Rif.
Another former rif user here. Any suggestions for an lemmy app? Saw people talk about wefwef which I'm just trying.
Thanks for the years of service with rif!
I used RIF as well. I'm currently trying out Liftoff and it seems to work fairly well.
I like Thunder at the moment with the compact setting. The slider for interacting with comments is a bit flakey though.
same. only one i enjoyed using.
I know, after literally a dozen years of using reddit almost exclusively via RIF this really feels like the end of an era. But hey, at least people did the work of coordinating alternatives before it all collapsed. Cheers to a new era!
Same.
Me too, it was one of the first apps I would make sure to install on a new phone for 9 years.
For some reason RIF is still working on my phone
I was on rif since 2010.
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.
I’m getting used to this and it’s pretty sweet so far
Will dearly miss Apollo.
Need to learn how to add my subreddits. Hmmm
My screen looks so empty without RIF in the top spot
I'm planning on keeping it on my screen, the problem is that I keep opening it without thinking.
Same here. End of an Era.
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.
Dude I have no idea how this website works. It's like the wild west.
Feels like an adventure, doesn't it? I LOVE kicking in those lemmy-saloon-doors and explore a whole new world!
An instance is a web server running the Lemmy software. You are most likely on lemmy.world
All the servers talk to each h other and if you make an account on one instance you should be able to view content and post/comment on communities on other instances like lemmy.ml as well.
Sad day for sure... I'm excited about Lemmy or alternatives that pop up though. Connect for Lemmy is a pretty nice app, and I'm sure others are being developed right now.
Tildes looks pretty good too
Do you have an invite?
No but you can read the posts. I like the Ui
It will be missed immensely. Trying Summit and Wefwef. Signed up to be notified about sync for lemmy. I hope something comes close to my experience with RiF.
Same. I will definitely miss it. Goodbye rif. Goodbye Reddit
This is worse than the rulings that the Supreme Court made today
rip rif
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.