the API changes occur tomorrow, gentlemen, it's been an honor (inb4 Lemmy completely crashes)

Goodnight Apollo, my sweet prince.
Hello Memmy 🫡
- You may have already seen this, but there is a web app for Lemmy that looks and functions very similar to Apollo:
  https://wefwef.app/
  I’ve been trying it today, and it’s pretty good.
  
  Holy shit, the developer has put some serious work in. I didn’t know web apps could be that good. There’s some insane attention to detail going on here
  
  Wefwef feels like home. I was using Apollo for years and this feels very natural
  
  Damn... I hadn't been paying attention and thought that was actually exclusively an iOS app when I'd seen it mentioned before... Looks interesting.
  
  +1
  Incredible, and the dev keeps updating it like twice a day.
  I'm also running a copy alongside my instance, thelemmy.club at app.thelemmy.club
  I never was really fond of web apps but this is great.
  
  Damn, that looks just like Apollo!
  
  Wow! It really does feel very similar to Apollo. It will undoubtedly make the transition easier.
  Thanks!
  
  WTF! i been on lemmy for 2 weeks and this is my first time seeing this! Thanks
  e: This is friggin amazing!
- Didn't the Apollo developer say that he was planning on porting his app to the fediverse?
  
  No, some other apps have
  
  Voyager now.. i know this thread us really old.

I wonder how many people who didn't understand Reddit that well and just used it to scroll r/aww just woke up to disabled third party apps one day and figure that Reddit went under. I have to imagine they lost less internet literate users.

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! :)
- I'm going to leave RIF right where it's been on my home screen for the last decade, as a little memorial.

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.

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.
- I'd argue it will become like Facebook, with the younger and more intelligent crowd leaving the site.
  
  Excuse me! I'm older and more intelligent, thank you very much.

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

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.
- Agreed. When I saw the Apollo thread, my first thought was 'Nah, not even spez would do this' but I choked on that very fast when I saw the e-mails, the audio recordings and everything. It was so blatant, so asinine, so horribly fucked up.
  I've never used the Apollo app, but millions of people did and in stead of thanking him for all his work, reddit just stabbed him in the back. Can't believe there are people still taking reddit's side on this, it's crazy.

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.

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

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.

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

10+ yr rif user, bring it Lemmy

Looking for a new home from Reddit; glad to be among friends!

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

i kinda doubt that there will be hordes joining Lemmy. Most who cares already migrated

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.

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.

Hello there, fellow refugees!
- We here
  
  I am doing my part!

Welcome, everyone! RIP Reddit Sync

Rest in peace beautiful RIF 😥 10+ years went by quickly! Time for new adventures now with both old and hopefully new family at Lemmy!
- 11 years with reddit and RIF for me! I'm actually feeling a little rejuvenated being free from it and trying something new.
  
  Yeah, I can understand that feeling 😊 Having a bit of a giddy feeling in a good way myself 😁

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

Hello Lemmy.world
- 👋❤️

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
- Or you could just post something positive about JK Rowling and reddit will delete everything for you!

just got a 429 message from RiF. there it goes
- was on til the last moments, RIP RiF, my most used app by far....

Reddit was RiF for me. I don't like Tildes so can't follow TalkLittle to his new app. What's everyone using for Lemmy? Jerboa started crashing with the latest updates, so I'm trying Connect for Lemmy. It's ok. Would like to give a few other apps a crack too.
- What's his new app called? I wanna try out Tildes too
  
  It's in development according to the RiF goodbye message. So no name yet. Will be interesting to see if it looks and feels like RiF.

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!

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.
- I crisis can be an opportunity.
  It's unlikely that reddit was the best site possible for us. We know how to improve it.

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.

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!