Boost was taken away for Reddit and swiftly given back to me for Lemmy. Bless the Boost devs and Lemmy hosts for saving me from the official Reddit experience 🤢

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

And now my instance is shutting down 🤡

[–] mad_lentil@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

You decided on a new home yet? What's your selection criteria.

I'd be tempted to make a single user instance, given how there's an ansible playbook you can just run.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

I was sync for me, but hell yeah, it's been a good couple of years.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Hey thanks man, those two years flew!

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

That was me

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Speaking of which, a recent Android update (I know I should change OSes) got rid of the little Lemmy.world web app icon thing I had installed and I haven't been able to get it back, so far. Does anyone know how to fix that? That was working great as my RIF replacement. I read it all again and I'm such a grandma. :(

[–] needanke@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Wefwef?

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago

It's been 2 years already?!

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Congrats Lemmy. Way better than Reddit shit show.

[–] Therobohour@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Hey that's me

[–] party_planet@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

ditto, Hi!

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[–] jadedwench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

Same. I used the little picture widget to cycle adorable animal pictures all day on my home screen. The one little thing that gave me joy, fucking ruined by corporations. While I don't have a widget anymore, I at least have someplace I can talk for 5 minutes and have someone listen.

[–] siipale@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago

I still have rif on my phone for it's sentimental value. Two years ago it took a while to get used to opening Connect for Lemmy instead of rif.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sync FTW

[–] Macallan@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It was great until the Dev abandoned it. It hasn't been updated in 15 months. 😡 😭

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Oh wow, I didn't even notice

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

I mean... Lemmy has always kinda felt more sane

[–] Klaptrax@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Baconreader refugee here

[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

I loved that app and I still miss it (and reddit) in some ways, but the API Apocalypse was when I decided I had to take a moral stand and quit. No way was I going to be railroaded into the first-party app full of ads and nonsense.

I haven't looked back since.

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

i left july 3rd

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Woohoo ! Happy Anniversary! Deleted manually 13 years of posts and comments.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

I had a script that did it. Reddit kept restoring them and I kept running thr script, finally most of it stuck

[–] frosty@pawb.social 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

For me it was Apollo

[–] tavostator@feddit.org 12 points 17 hours ago

Apollo walked so Voyager could run

[–] redditor_chatter44@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

Cheers

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I loved RIF and was addicted to Reddit. But they dumped me and I am scorned and will never forgive reddit! Fuck reddit and I hope it dies.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Same same !

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 7 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

In 10 days my account will be 2 years old.

I've enjoyed it, and this has been one of my most visited websites during that time. But I'm still not sure I'll stick around after lemm.ee shuts down at the end of this month.

[–] Kevnyon@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, had to move back to this instance because of that. I think that just shows how hard it is and how much funding it actually requires.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

My understanding is in the case of lemm.ee they were getting enough donations to cover the technical operating costs, but they did not have enough high-quality volunteers for admins (and presumably not enough money to pay admins. It would require a lot of money to pay fairly for that work).

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[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I still miss rif 😭

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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Man two years, feels so much shorter

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[–] hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 23 hours ago

When reddit announced that they were going public I knew the end was nigh. Money corrupts everything. What made reddit cool was the users and reddit just wanted to suck that dry. I was happy to leave but I pretty much just lurked on Reddit so it wasn't that hard.

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