• b_n@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Piling on another comment to say that lurking here feels much nicer than on reddit. The comments are actually worth reading a lot of the time. RiF going down was a dark day, but Jerboa and Lemmy make everything light.

    • Alaik@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Because reddit is mostly bots and shills now. Lemmy will be up and coming soon and then it’ll be even more astroturfed due to how easy it easy to do that on this platform.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • 13igTyme@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I created an account two years ago, but was using boost and it kept working up until a few months ago. The combination of Boost not working and Nazis taking over Reddit so even the desktop old reddit was pointless to use.

    Now I use Boost for Lemmy for mobile.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I dunno… every mainstream normie I’ve ever told about Lemmy gets enormously turned off by the tankie content here. Yeah you can block it, but why should they when Reddit caters to a more centrist audience, they seem to think. We are a Nazi bar here and that’s going to be a problem for a long while.

        It didn’t help that I did not realize that a Google search pulls up Lemmy.ml as the top instance, and that it shows only Local content by default to a guest user. Thus it substantially helps to point to a specific Lemmy instance rather than tell people to check out just “Lemmy”, although lemm.ee was one of the top recommendations there so now that’s going to be confusing when people read old posts and comments.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    It makes me a bit upset that the developer of RIF didn’t make a Lemmy alternative. They instead went to Tildes, which, when I tried to check it out was not open to public registration. IDK if that changed, but I have not even heard a single person ever mention it outside of those early days after the API changes were announced and people were looking for alternatives.

    I want LIF. 😩

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I’m on Tildes, and it’s a good site for discussion without the constant memes and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.

      Not real sure why RIF dude chose that site to write an app for though. The site itself is basically exactly the same as the app. Very clean, very simple, no wasted space. It’s even better than old.reddit at prioritising content over pretty pictures.

      Lemmy would benefit much more from a RIF app, even if Voyager and the like do a pretty good job as it stands.

      • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        3 months ago

        and accusations of everyone being a communist / not communist / slightly communist / whatever else seems to get thrown around on Lemmy.

        So true lol

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 months ago

      There really is no comparison, Tildes has a few hundred to thousand active people (looks like about 20 posts a day… across the entire site), and is run by a single guy with very particular ideas about what people are allowed to say and do on his site.

      Lemmy meanwhile has roughly 50k users and I would guess hundreds to thousands of posts per day, even if not millions like Reddit that allows more niches to develop.

    • faxed@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Oh ya what happened to that site? tap tap tap

      Tildes is currently in invite-only alpha, and you must be invited to be able to register.

      I assume all the elitists complaining about the eternal september (including the 20 years olds) have sequestered themselves there which is best for everyone.