Tashlan,
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I uninstalled RIF. For old time's sake I fell asleep last night browsing many year old threads on r/tolkienfans. Truly relaxing, ad, clutter free, just text, just reading. I hate the idea of a world without that.

falconhoof,

I felt this, but as the end of the month drew nearer and I adjusted to the idea of losing Reddit more, it has actually felt like a really cathartic process for me. Using PowerDeleteSuite on my profile, creating a new one here, searching for new communities within it. I honestly think this change will be a net positive for me personally. Reddit was absolutely swamped in noise and low quality content, it had been for years. A communal shift into a new world, that holds different values at the forefront, and by default (smaller, federated communities) content quality should improve. It reminds me a little of the old message board days.

I'm just waiting on a kbin app that goes at least some way to being as good an experience as Apollo was, as I'm mostly a mobile user.

DrChickenbeer,
@DrChickenbeer@kbin.social avatar

@Girlparts I'm running PowerDelete Suite right now and it is very bittersweet for me. 12 years of heavy participation, poof, gone like dry leaves in the breeze.

DarkThoughts,

12 years for me as well, but from my point of view I'd say good riddance. Reddit has been gone to shit over the past ~5 years. I will miss Relay though.

Usernameblankface,
@Usernameblankface@kbin.social avatar

I was about to make a post like this. Trying to explain this whole situation to someone this morning, and found myself feeling way more feelings than I expected to feel over losing an app.

But it's more than an app. For the last 7 years, it's where my nerds hang out. It's where I could get actual humans responding to weird questions.

It's also the place where I often got shouted down and told in many ways that I'm stupid.

I expected these two things to balance each other out, but no. I'm sad to lose Reddit, upset that the reason is greed, and a little apprehensive about relying on Kbin for all my forum contend from now on. It's been great here so far, but I'm only just getting started.

MrZigZag,

I was always an old.reddit.com user on both desktop and Android so I didn't think the loss of the apps would make too much difference to me.

Yeesh was I wrong; you can already see the falloff in content over there now.

And I am really sick of seeing John Oliver pics.

Karl,
@Karl@kbin.social avatar

Although reddit apps are dieing, many great apps for lemmy have popped up or are being worked on.

swan_pr,
@swan_pr@kbin.social avatar

I was thinking about exactly this last night. I feel like the apps we used (12 years on Reddit, with RIF for as long as I remember) were Reddit. The apps and the way we customized them created our own little Reddit universe. I'm sad for all the devs that worked on their applications and put so much work into them also. But I've been off Reddit for a couple of weeks and I absolutely do not miss it.

Calcharger,
@Calcharger@kbin.social avatar

I just feel bad for the developer. Years spent developing an app for it to be worthless. That has got to be deflating.

falconhoof,

Depends how you define 'worthless'. In the case of Apollo, it certainly wasn't financially worthless for him. And just to be clear, I have no issue with a quality app developer making money doing what they do.

HandsHurtLoL,

I mean, actual take-home-pay aside from running Apollo, I have no doubt that Christian will be head-hunted like all hell from so many tech companies. I bet his future is solid gold after this. =)

aeternum,

I still feel bad for them. They created SO MUCH value for reddit, only to be kicked in the teeth.

VulcanSphere,

Vulcan is a Relay user, but Reddit shenanigans with Apollo and other 3PAs infuriates Vulcan so much that he jumped to kbin and other threadiverse platforms.

jcrm,

I'm genuinely sad. Not to be dramatic, but there were times where Reddit saved my life. Seeing the number of comments and posts I had made while I was scrubbing my account hit me harder than I thought it would.

HandsHurtLoL,

This was my sentiment two weeks ago, and I made an "is anyone else sad?" post.

It eventually devolved into a "ding ding, the witch is dead!" situation!

MrZigZag,

but there were times where Reddit saved my life.

Yep, if it weren't for their stopsmoking sub, I'd probably be dead today.

genoxidedev1,

Today is officially gonna be the last day that I will argue with righties and centrists on r/conservative

LynnTheChaoticWitch,

Artemis and Memmy are both Apollo inspired

lixus98,
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It's sad, but it seems to me you adapted to the fediverse, I see you on my frontpage every time I check it, great content, good job!

Girlparts,
@Girlparts@kbin.social avatar

Thanks!

mephiska,

15 years on reddit for me. Exclusively old.reddit.com and apollo for most of that. That site is dead to me now.

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