Happy ruleversary

Losing RIF was the final straw, glad it prompted me to switchover.
- Yeah there were a lot of little things before then. It kind of felt like being in an abusive relationship every time you saw an admin post. Glad you made the switch!

Been seeing a lot of cakes on Lemmy today
- Happy to join in on your cake day too .... yeah that exodus two years ago was an exciting summer
- It was the time to go. I have not missed that shit show one bit.

RIP RIF, I still have it on my phone as a memorial
- Yeah I still have bacon reader on my phone. I click it accidentally sometimes and it shows their goodbye message. 😭
  That said I'm a Summit man now. Very happy with it!

It’s been a good two years. Finally settled on my instance too, shame about lemm.ee though; love that one. But this one works too and Blahaj zone will be my backup if dbzero goes down next. Here’s to more years here!

I can't believe it's been two years already
- We're now integral to Lemmy history and legacy
  
  Wish i hadn't lost the password to my original account. Now I can't prove that i was here that day
- Time has flown. Clearly I joined a bit later. But surely cake day soon.

A very good evening to former RIF users, the true best of the third party Reddit apps.

To celebrate, let me repost this same meme I made here when I first started posting in 196:

I'll be honest, I was using the official app. But when a bunch of people jumped ship, I saw how much cooler the new ship was and jumped with them. And I still like this ship.
- This is the most based thing I've read all day.
- Same and I'm very happy to be here and not there.

Apollo, I miss you.
- Apollo was such a great client. Voyager is a decent replacement, but it’s missing so much.
  Oddly enough, Christian is now working on the mobile app for the Digg reboot. That’ll be interesting to watch.

I took a break from reddit before getting into lemmy but that is when i left reddit!
- Once Reddit announced they were going public I knew it was over. Money corrupts everything. I definitely spent (wasted) a lot of time on RIF.

I joined when Reddit pulled their API bullshit. Haven’t looked back since. I like it here.

Hi friends 💜 its been a much better experience over the last two years, looking forward to many more with the Fediverse xx
- I love your commentary, I'm glad you'll stick around!
  
  Aw thank you 💜 that's very kind

I use the RIF logo to hide my sketchy apps visually. You just made me realize that I'm 2 years obsolete.

What is a rif?
- Reddit is fun. It was a reddit app that was killed when reddit started charging crack prices for api requests.
  
  Ah, Yeah that checks out. I never posted on reddit but the api thing made me make this account.

The weird thing is, I was off reddit for years already. It's only because tech news sites reported on the api changes (and boosted the fediverse) that I made the switch. I was doing fine! I didn't need a new reddit!
- Nah, actually I did because 4chan was my replacement for the interim (-_-⁠メ⁠)
  Glad you survived.

I lost my OG account on Kbin and now can't take part in the celebrations forever more :(
- Hey we're not judging here. Happy cake day, buddy!

I still have RIF on my phone even though it doesn't work. Can't bring myself to delete it.
- I used to keep around a downloaded copy of Super Monday Night Combat after it shut down.

Happy cake day everyone! 😘
I first joined feddit.de but it was riddled with issues so I switched to lemmy.world after three weeks. Some time later it croaked anyway.
I still see the day third party apps went offline as the day of my departure and I am happy to see us grow into a friendlier alternative to that shitshow of a website.

Hard to believe its been two years, yet in ways it has felt like longer. Feels like a lot of shit has happened in just that short span of time in this little corner of the internet.

I miss the simple interface the most. Like I can navigate the official app but I don't like it, and it resets my position browsing r/all randomly.

Still here, still trying to convince people to leave reddit, but some people won't even leave twitter or facebook, so what are you gonna do? Lemmy has taught me to be happy with my beans.
- You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much beans as them. The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough beans.
  
  I will happily share my beans, but I guess it's weird to just put beans in your neighbor's bowl without their consent.

I didn't really use reddit but I remember back then seeing a link in a story about reddit shitting the bed and thought I'd check it out. Back then a big issue was over instances not vetting users who applied. Thay sentence probably doesn't even make sense to most users.
Though it has been interesting to say the least watching the reddit culture establish and then enforce itself.

Dunno about RIF, I've been in threadiverse since Sync for Reddit bit the dust. (Was in Kbin initially.)
- Sync for Lemmy is ok, but the dev stopped responding about 8 months ago and it's got a bug that makes it completely unusable for many people.
  
  Heh, I know. I bought Sync for Reddit originally, and was really conflicted about whether I should buy Sync for Lemmy. Was, like, "what the hell, I'll be supporting the developer."...well I'm glad I never bought the ongoing support things this developer offered! Staunch supporter of open source threadiverse apps these days, as you might imagine.

Still miss baconreader
- Just a FYI to anyone out there trying to use baconreader with revanced. Its now calls itself redbacon when linking accounts. Unless someone knows a good explaination for this name change, I would really reconsider using it still and probably changing your passwords.