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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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[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

I get a 429 now, sad times are here.

Long live lemmy.

[–] soundoftheunheard@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year 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.

[–] Casmael@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Ruckus@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago
[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So ling, RIF. You will be missed.

[–] Casmael@geddit.social 5 points 1 year 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

[–] bquintb@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll miss my RIF 😭

Hello Lemmy

[–] solarzones@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

lemmy.world is already getting so much slower now

[–] Kururin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] StarLuigi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] Kururin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kururin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
[–] boingboingsplat@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Relaxxx@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] speedy_delivery@dubvee.org 1 points 1 year ago

I have some prime real estate on my home screen that I don't want to clear, and I'm going to keep clicking on that fucker out of habit.

Sad day. RIP in peace, RIF.

[–] hexachrome@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] original_reader@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] eatham@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Infinity seems to still work.

[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Tramdan@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Omegion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

reddit is now bored

[–] Eribetra@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wanted to check out Sync today, I was greeted with the app repeatedly closing immediately after opening it. So that's dead as well. What a sad day this is for all of the 3rd party Reddit app devs.

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync for Lemmy is a few weeks away so at least there's light at the end of the tunnel there.

[–] Eribetra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, really looking towards both it and Boost for Lemmy. Both seem like great looking clients I'd use a lot. In the meantime, it's just Jerboa and Connect lol

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