Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.

Hello Memmy 🫡

I think a lot of moderators are just going to back down and return to business-as-usual from tomorrow. Reddit will suffer as a business but this isn't going to downright kill the site. Unlike say... Tumblr or OnlyFans, Reddit has a far more diverse clientele and many of them couldn't give a shit about third-party apps.

These half-arsed protests staged after the 14th June have told me that most of Reddit's mods are fucking cowards who are more afraid of losing their status as internet janitors than all the third-party apps.

Reddit's moderators could have easily brought the site to its knees if they just collectively stopped enforcing rules (including site-wide ones), removed Automoderator, unbanned everybody, then told the community to just go nuts.

The mods of /r/interestingasfuck had the right idea by encouraging users to post NSFW content, since this would have chased away advertisers in droves.

I mean the whole "sexy pics of John Oliver" protest that /r/pics had isn't going to chase away advertisers and was something that Spez could easily ignore, but having your content displayed alongside a flood of explicit pornographic images definitely will.

Even as somebody who has never used, and will likely never need Apollo, I am really grateful for what he did. However unintentionally, I think he ripped the mask off how rotten the management structure was. It's one thing to sell ads and collect hidden metadata. Pretty much all the apps do it. But the whole way Reddit treated him was beyond despicable.

Sure hope things take off here. Fuck reddit.

Over a decade lurking on reddit; never posted. Just made a lemmy account. I don't need lemmy to be "the next big thing"... just need it to not be overrun by bots and astroturfing. Hopefully some of the smaller subs I visit move over.

Holy shit this is about to be the top post for the instance, welcome, everyone who's new!!! be sure to check the Communities page for World.

I just joined Lemmy today after uninstalling Reddit Is Fun. It was absolutely surreal just how much habit was in pulling out my phone and pressing the space where RIF used to be. Decided I'm kind of mostly done with Reddit other than quick information look ups on the website.

So here I am! First post! The only constant in life is change. Hello everyone, I hope we all get along! :)

Was sent here by RIF. Thanks for everything buddy your app was perfect

Reddit refuge here. I hope it doesn't crash!

Big ol fuck spez. Sync just closed down. I'm done with Reddit.

just got a 429 message from RiF. there it goes

It’s already begun - I’ve been getting “unable to fetch posts”-type errors since this morning. Hang on tight folks, it’ll be a wild ride as we welcome the flood of new Fledditors!

I didn't think infinity would be finite but tomorrow we'll reach the end of Infinity for sure

Fellas, it's been an honor

drowning noise

Ahoy, former RIF user migrating over. I hope this place grows to be my new internet home!

One more day until Reddit Isn't Fun... :(

It's been a good run, but without RiF the site is worthless.

That being said, it paves the way for the Fediverse to grow, so rather than celebrating the end of an era, I'm enjoying the birth of a new one.

Man, if you told me a couple months ago, that I would stop using Reddit, I wouldn't believe you. I've been on it over a decade. It took Spez ONE MONTH to undo everything and make that a reality.

Excited for Lemmy.

Reddit was it was good while it lasted, but it was just a container for online communities. The AP protocol is superior to a centralized model in every way.

Onwards you beautiful nerds!

The vibrant ecosystem of third party apps is what made Reddit, from what I've heard even the official app is a reskin of what used to be a third party apps. Pushing that ecosystem to Lemmy (I have 7 actively developing Lemmy apps installed on my phone) could spell eventual death for Reddit, and was a very unwise long term decision.

I'm a Relay user which is one of the few apps that are going to stick around, but I still opted out of Reddit anyway. As a mod, spez arrogance offends me.

The mods need to start moving across and recreating the communities.

Already seeing high latency for our instance. Guessing everyone realized the impending doom and created accounts on one of the easier instances to join. Welcome, fellow lemmings!

I hope Lemmy will be successful, and maintain healthy communities.

RIF was part of my life for a decade. It's crazy how emotional this experience has been. It feels like losing a home, a community, everything because some fuckface won't find a compromise.

Hello there, fellow refugees!

Just joined the Lemmy-verse and getting everything setup. Hope u/spez rots in hell

It's about time for something better than reddit.

i'm doubting there will be a large exodus... why wouldn't they be here already?

Highly recommend purging / editing your comments before you go. I used PowerDeleteSuite for my main and alt accounts and it worked really well. If you've got thousands of comments and heaps of data it'll take ages, but it's an important step, leave them with nothing they can monetize

First comment. Looking forward to the new(ish) community full of familiar faces.

I have a weird request to the other Redfugees: I had considered going through and nuking my entire post history for all of my accounts. But then I realized that a lot of the advice that I've given on /linux and /python would be lost. I'm not a master at either, but I like to think that I've helped people out.

So before deleting everything as a (justified!) middle finger to a terrible CEO, take into account that what you've written is a part of a tapestry of internet history. 99.99% is trite. But you never know what future generations will find interesting or useful.

Just my $0.02.

And ladies. We are here as well. I started an audiobook sub for those who are interested

I hope Reddit fully dies off- that site is a cesspool and deserves to meet a fate similar to tumblr & myspace.

another RIF user checking in. Good to have a place to come to. Let's hope this turns into something really good

Stoked to be a part of the new community. Still have trouble explaining to my friends exactly what the fediverse is in simple terms without making it seem more complicated than it is

Been an active redditor since 2009 when my friend showed it to me, and exclusively on RIF since starting to use it on a smartphone. I've definitely felt it getting worse over the years (reddit, not the immaculate perfection that was RIF) so maybe this is just what the doctor ordered. Sorry oldheads for being part of the wave of newbs but you're stuck with us now! Take it up with spez the greedy little pigboy.

At this point I just want to see it suffer lmao

Well there goes Apollo, at least I have wefwef

just hit both of my accounts, nearly 12 years old on the older one, with power delete suite. edited and then deleted my whole post history and then deleted the accounts.

RIP Baconreader, been on it for the better part of a decade and the official app can't come close. This is a nice change of pace though, and I don't mind moving over at all.

Abandoned the Reddit ship when RIF went down. It's sad to see something go I've been using for the better part of 15 years. But, new things will take its place and reddit will probably die bc of their stubborn greed.

Hey Spez, you need us more than we need you. Have a shitty rest of your day pal

Rest in peace beautiful RIF 😥 10+ years went by quickly! Time for new adventures now with both old and hopefully new family at Lemmy!

Sync for reddit brought me here. Bye Reddit Heyo Lemmy

Goodbye Apollo! RIP to such a great app.

Sometimes things have to burn to make room for new things to blossom. I hope this is one of those times.

Refugee here, looking for a new home.

Apollo has fallen. I repeat: Apollo has fallen.

It's an odd feeling. I knew this was coming but could still check Reddit as I usually did via Boost. Now they're all shutting down and there's no option besides their own shitty app. No thanks.

15 year reddit user finally migrating over. Never thought I would leave but here we go.

Can't be worse than what Musk just did.

Goodbye Sync for Reddit...

And hello Sync for Lemmy (soon)!

WOOOOOOOOOOO

WELCOME TO LEMMY EVERYONE, this is the highest post on the instance currently, hope everyone is having a good time here.

Be sure to check the communities section!

https://lemmy.world/communities

R.I.P. RIF.

Is this the most upvotes a Lemmy post has received??

RIP RIF

Got here after RIF died, so sorry for being part of the chaos.

I don't post much, but I hope I'll be a positive addition here.

Honored to be here. Hopefully the scaling issues Lemmy might run into isn't too much.

I'm actually pretty optimistic about reddit in fedi!

Twitter had specific personalities that needed to move for me to join, but Reddit was just anonymous shitposts.

If the feed updates often enough, this is a perfect drop in replacement. Also, crossposting here from Reddit is an easy way to generate content 🤷‍♀️

Someone scrape Reddit and post it all here. Thxxxxxx.

RiF is dead, and so is the vast majority of my Reddit participation.

My Sync just stopped working, says I am rate limited with 0 calls remaining.

Guess it's the end of an era and start of a new.

Just did. Cant use rif anymore

It's been an priviledge.

For some of us the final day was weeks ago. It’s time to let go and focus on what you have. Why are we all still obsessing over ducking Reddit. It’s over. Done.

Just moved in, hoping for the community to grow here as big and bigger than reddit's community.

My first post on Lemmy, hello fellow RIF-ers. I hope Reddit goes down hard.

12 year reddit user that just came here after RIF went down. Excited to meet you all here! It's my first comment and may there be many, many more.

Don’t mind me just commenting on here to see if I created the profile correctly

Hello Lemmy!

Just deleted my 9 year old reddit account. Fuck those guys. What's doin?

CYA REDDIT!! 8 year old account all deleted and everything I modded is handed down :)

I just deleted my 11 year old account. FUCK Reddit! I’m here to stay!

BaconReader is down now. This is my first comment on Lemmy after 10 years using that app. Time for something new

I guess reddit really doesn't want my engagement and ad revenue because I don't sit at my computer all day and RIF was my break time fun. I'm not going to stop using reddit right away but it's going to be limited since it's computer access only now and I wonder how much of an impact this change will be and if it will be enough to boot leadership out.

I just deleted Reddit is Fun. Feels bad man.

10+ yr rif user, bring it Lemmy

Reddit was a fucking garbage dump and I am glad it's finally going to be dead. Long live literally any new social media platform so long as it doesn't engender a culture of nastiness, vitriol and hate.

Hi yeah sorry I'm here slightly early to ruin it for everyone

Once Boost shuts down I'll have no reason to use Reddit anymore. Happy to join everyone here!

Former Boost user happy with the new home. Also, Boost is being ported to Lemmy :)

Just joined. Who needs Reddit anyway.

Comming from BaconReader 🥓

RIP in peace RIF, and thank you.

I'm a fan of this place so far and glad to be part of the migration.

RIF user moving in! Hello to all reddit refugees. Now to train myself not to tap on the app icon 500 times a day....

Those API changes will be the death of Reddit. When I glanced at RIF today in my app list and remembered it was offline, that brought me here finally. I held out hope that Spez wouldn't stand his ground but he did and now here we are. And this is my first post here, first of many. I hope this place thrives.

Hiya Lemmy.world, another Reddit refugee here, pleased to join you fine folk.

My first lemmy comment. Glad to be here!

Can confirm, it completely cracked

Reddit is just mad they made a better UX then they did. I mean...they freaking bought alien blue....and threw it in the trash.

Former RIF user, sad to see the app go, finna go drink a toast to it, and also going to go help with the downfall of reddit, but I'm happy to be here.

Hello world. Goodbye reddit

freedom!!! bye reddit.

Gonna be on Apollo for the last few seconds.

o7

Thank you Boost for many years of great service.

Moving away from a 15+ year account on Reddit. Faithful Sync user until today.

Feels like the way they handled the monetization of the API just went against the original Reddit ethos. Its been a fun ride there but I can't help but look for something else so here I am.

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Yeah, I just switched to Lemmy. Also made a mastodon account. Everyone that cares the slightest bit about Reddit seems to be leaving, the ones that mever really contributed seem to be staying for now. Spam bots and bad content will ruin the platform fast enough, they're going to be the next Digg in a few years.

*ladies and gentlemen, this isn’t reddit pal!

Hey all. RiF brought me here. Leaving behind a 12 year Reddit account.

My first time here as I just finished signing up. 10 plus years of Reddit up in smoke. Hope we don't break anything.

I already have porn popping up on my feed here and there.

Oh boy, tomorrow I will wake up to the best “told you so” moment ever.

Sync for Reddit has been deactivated. 🎺

Welcome, everyone! RIP Reddit Sync

Rip RIF. Still figuring things out, really looking forward to the old internet vibe

There goes RiF, so there goes me. Almost 12 years of Reddit, gone.

PSA: You can use browser scripts to securely delete your posts and comments. Don't gift Reddit your content. Force search engines to scrub dead Reddit links from their results.

I'll add the obligatory farewell to RIF - "the app I was happy to pay for". This seems like an interesting alternative - I hope the back end is up for it! I won't be going back to Reddit on principle.

14 year reddit account... Somewhat late to the party here... Happy to help crash things. Lets move the needle forward for decentralized infrastructure.

It's going to be fun see even the apps that remain no longer being served porn. They're repating the tumblr idiocy. But I understand it's because it's for their planned IPO and investors dislike that stuff.

i know this isnt Reddit, but fuck you Spez.

Here from RIF. This will take some getting used to, but I think I'll like it!

Change is good. I'm looking forward to the fresh take Lemmy will have.

10 years on RIF and Apollo... but this here feels great. Glad to have such a nice alternative without the baggage

I give this site 15 years max before it turns to shit. Should be a fun ride.

I can't even load comments on this post. Who knows if anyone can even read what I'm writing now lol.

It's happening! This is what a DDOS attack peak performance looks like.

Yep! I have a reminder in my calendar: "Delete reddit user". 11 years of contributions gone. Already deleted all posts and comments, but kept the user back so that if anyone's keeping score, it counts.

I deleted Redditisfun in advance to get used to not having it, let's see how this goes

Apollo is dead. There it goes

See everyone on the other side of the impending flood of users

It was a good ride. Had a great time with RiF, gonna leave it on my phone as a reminder for all the good times. Rif is fun Golden Platinum you will be missed.

Migrating from RIF as well. Here's to better beginnings!

Looks like Boosters have migrated here .. hope reddit registers a catastrophic drop in activity lol. Yes im bitter.

Fellow RIFugee here moving in to the Fediverse. After 8 years, the moment I opened RIF and could no longer refresh my feed, it felt like the end of a chapter of my life. With every ending comes with new beginnings, so here's to Lemmy and the Fediverse!

Former Apollo user checking in! It’s oddly exciting finally trying something new after being on the same platform for so long. March of progress and all.

Hello, coming from Infinity for Reddit! (still working btw)

Is today D Day or is that tomorrow?

Holy shit I'm on the hot section lmao

Glad to be joining this new adventure with so many of y’all. Let’s see where this takes us lads!

Hello World!!

Just joined Lemmy. Onwards and upwards.

Tonight I deleted seven accounts that I started between three and ten years ago. No going back now.

Leaving Reddit. Hello Fediverse! I will be much more active in posting and commenting on the Fediverse than I was before on Reddit.

With all the errors I get just trying to browse, I don't think I made it here before the rest of the refugees. :(

Lemmy has been great so far. I’ll definitely miss Apollo (and Alien Blue!) but the future looks bright for Lemmy.

Just deleted my Reddit third party app. No more browsing from the phone for me.

I am here now after Sync Now was removed. I really like the way it's setup.

Still haven't seen any goodbyes from my 3rd party app (Relay). They actually pushed an update a day or two ago >_>

Started on RiF but changed to Boost. I'd say I was angry Reddit is doing this but honestly I'm just sad this is how it ends up.