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It’s been 2 years already?!
Exactly !!
Miss RIF so much.
We should make our own RIF
Would have to start from scratch as RIF was not open source and now abandoned as far as I know.
I still use RIF
Revanced ftw. Although some things stopped working, /r/random stopped working
Yep that’s me. RIF was so good. Why would a website cannibalize itself like this?
$$$
Hey that’s me
ditto, Hi!
Me too! Although I’ve mostly lurked this whole time until I finally made an acc this month
I was sync for me, but hell yeah, it’s been a good couple of years.
That was me
And now my instance is shutting down 🤡
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.
Sync FTW
It was great until the Dev abandoned it. It hasn’t been updated in 15 months. 😡 😭
Oh wow, I didn’t even notice
Really? Do posts show as read for you? Maybe Lemmy.world is still running an old version of Lemmy. Once sh.itjust.works patched to a new version 8 or 9 months ago, Sync became completely unusable for me.
Oh fuck. That is really going to suck once I can’t use it:/
Edit: yes, posts are marked as read
Huh weird. I’ve got an account on .world and if I use that with Sync, posts don’t show get marked as read for me. Wonder what I’m doing wrong.
Congrats Lemmy. Way better than Reddit shit show.
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.
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.
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).
I agree and I think the cost of paying admins would far exceed that of server costs. Nobody would do it unless they could support themselves with it and that’s a lot of money that you’d have to scrape together to be able to pay multiple admins.
This made me curious, how much funding does it actually require for maintining reasonable amount of users in the long term ?
Since I am not that familiar with AWS and its pricing, I am not sure. Two years ago on this instance, an admin commented on this thread that it cost 180€ per month to run the server. So that’s at least 2160€ per year and that’s not including the labor and there’s only so much volunteer work that anyone is willing to put in, as is evident with the shutdown of lemm.ee, which cited a lack of volunteers as one of the issues that lead to the shut down.
BaconReader for me.
Sync for me
I used to love that app.
Sync has been very user friendly for me, and the closest I felt to RiF
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.
Woohoo ! Happy Anniversary! Deleted manually 13 years of posts and comments.
I had a script that did it. Reddit kept restoring them and I kept running thr script, finally most of it stuck
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. :(
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.
Thx brah
