this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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Reddit Was Fun

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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

11 years on Reddit and my mobile Reddit experience was 100% via RIF. No RIF. No Reddit on mobile for me (mobile was 95% of my Reddit use).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it was the best app for accessing reddit. it is gone so now I am done with reddit

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

14 years on Reddit, my main account would have been 13 years old next week and I finally took the plunge and deleted it. Screw those guys. Is it weird that I felt genuinely sad deleting it, though? Like, I'm 37 years old, a parent, married. I feel a bit silly.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

RIP RIF. The only app that I could bear to use on android. Thanks for so many awesome years.

Here's to seeing if Lemmy (or maybe tildes.net if we get invites) works out. Seems like a cool community so far

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first comment on lemmy! RIP RIF

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Rest in Feace, RiF

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

how is it still working on my phone?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I am still baffled that Reddit didn't have options like, ads in API calls for 3rd party apps, or paying Reddit users can use 3rd party apps. It feels like Google blocking me for using Firefox even though I am a Google One subscriber, on a Pixel, browsing over Google Fiber.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Reddit is fun was my jam. I won't reddit anymore without it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

RIF was fantastic. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

To Talklittle... Thank you for all the years and hard work you put into RIF. I happened upon your app years ago when I was having a difficult time in my life and found simple solace there. Since then I fully embraced RIF and even got some friends to join the app/community as well. I am fiercely heartbroken over that other apps disgusting treatment of you and the others. I am very sorry, but more than that, I'm incredibly grateful to you. Thank you. Sending peace, love, and strength. 💕

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

RIP RIF May it rest with the best of them. To me it WAS Reddit. But so far Lemmy has been an easy onboarding! Let's keep the party going!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So, is it a problem that rif is still working for me some how? I went into it to see the dead app and canceled out of every message prompt after the good bye. Now when I open the app, it works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Same here, able to load content, comments, everything except log in

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[–] intelati 7 points 1 year ago

T'was an honor and a pleasure shitposting with you.

Glad to begin a new adventure

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sad day, can't wait for LIF 🤟

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So wait I logged out of rif because when I was logged in it was getting 429 and empty content... Now that I'm logged out it appears to work fine at the moment. What's happening?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You found a glitch in the matrix. Proceed with caution.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I actually appreciate the humor in the lyrics.

That said, it drives me nuts when people don't consider syllable counts in parody songs.

"This'll be the day that I die" can't be sung to the same tune as "soon I'll be a rich guy."

Probably should have gone with "soon I'll be a very rich guy." But the rest of the parody is written the same way unfortunately, so it'd all need to be fixed.

I'm fun at parties.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If everyone is here, the content is here. So long RIF and thanks for all the fish, but if this takes off it will be so much better than ever before.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I will miss RIF, and I cannot browse reddit without it. I am, however, looking foward to further interacting with the fediverse. I am just trying to remain respectful of places that other people created and established. Reddit was fun, but it was a mess (fake posts for karma, rage bait posts, harassment over the slightest little thing, people who couldn't and wouldn't intelligently articulate their view, etc). I'm hoping to not bring that here.

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

My first comment on lemmy! RIP RIF

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

it was a long run, sad to see it go :( thanks for everything

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

Now I'm wondering, any chance for the app to be remade for Lemmy in the future?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

RIF was my first Reddit app. I did move over to Boost a couple of years ago but RIF will always be my o.g. Android experience.

Thanks for all your work, talklittle - you improved a lot of lives, including mine, with this app.

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

Goodbye RIF. You'll be missed!

LIF??

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't even know how long I used rif, but it was for the majority of my reddit time, and that is over 12 years.

Sad to see it go, but I'm also hopeful for our federated future. Reddit hadn't been great for quite a while now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Sad, my most used app over the years.

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

I use Relay For Reddit and it is still working on my phone NSFW and all. I wonder why.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Relay is moving to a subscription model in the near future. Meanwhile it will remain free. The NSFW limitation is scheduled for July 5.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hello Lemmy is fun??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"Error loading Reddit data. Please try again later." 🥺

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