Never used RiF, but I left at the same time. The writing was on the wall.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
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For me it was Apollo
Apollo walked so Voyager could run
10 years on reddit but when they fucked over the Apollo dev I had no problem giving him a couple bucks for the app and moving to Lemmy, haven’t looked back.
Baconreader refugee here
I loved that app and I still miss it (and reddit) in some ways, but the API Apocalypse was when I decided I had to take a moral stand and quit. No way was I going to be railroaded into the first-party app full of ads and nonsense.
I haven't looked back since.
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I’ve only been here since the start of the year but I’m happy to be here.
2 years and 2 weeks. I must have left a tad early.
What's RIF? I joined when BaconReader stopped working
RIF was arguably the best Reddit mobile app.
RIF = reddit is fun
Its was when the third party apps went down
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I was sync for me, but hell yeah, it's been a good couple of years.
Synch for Lemme and haven't gone back.
Time flies doesn't it?
3 months short for me but that's because it took me that long to figure out how Lemmy worked.
I wasn't on reddit, but I did hear a lot of buzz about lemmy around that time, so I decided to check it out. It's been one of the better places I've enjoyed for discussion.
That was me
Apollo was the last straw for me.
Same. I used the little picture widget to cycle adorable animal pictures all day on my home screen. The one little thing that gave me joy, fucking ruined by corporations. While I don't have a widget anymore, I at least have someplace I can talk for 5 minutes and have someone listen.
In 10 days my account will be 2 years old.
I've enjoyed it, and this has been one of my most visited websites during that time. But I'm still not sure I'll stick around after lemm.ee shuts down at the end of this month.
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I told reddit I wouldn't be back and I meant it. RIF was perfect and they didn't deserve the defeat and lies they received for just trying to share reddit to more people in a better manner. Fuck /u/spez
Me too, i even said it in one of my last comments and a couple months later when i logged back in to wipe over my account i saw i had a reply; someone responded saying something like "yeah sure thing, youll be back in 2 days drama queen".
Well, turns out i meant what i said. Bye Felicia
I stopped using RIF when the dumbass who developed it started whining about open source and monetary remuneration. The app became popular in large part because it was open source.
It’s just like the nutsack who founded GitHub. A literal GPLv2 program and the guy got super rich and famous, then extolled the virtues of using lax permissive licenses. Absolute tool.
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Cheers for infinity, may it rest in peace.
I'm currently using Eternity for lemmy (fork)