After Apollo, RIF is also going to shut down.

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      Even if reddit reverses any of their pricing plans following the blackout, I think that’s it for at least some of the apps that already announced their shutting down. You just can’t run a business (or even volunteer lots of your personal time) if reddit has already shown, that you and your product mean nothing to them and they are willing to alienate their most passionate users with a mere 30 days lead time.

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        Yeah and NSFW content will be gone anway. A major deal breaker for many, not only necessarily for porn but for other random NSFW stuff which pop up in most subreddits. Paying more for less is a no go for most people, understandably.

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    RIP RiF. Good app.
    That’s why I’m here. I like this place so far though!

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      Same. RIF is / was my app. It’s a shame in some ways, but this place is better in many other ways. I’m happy here and look forward to seeing the Fediverse grow!

      Fuck reddit, VCs, and greedy assholes.

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      If you added up the cumulative amount of my life I’ve spent using any one piece of software, RiF would win

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    RIF was the only way i accessed reddit. That means i’m out for good. I’ll miss subreddits like ‘DataIsBeautiful’ or ‘RetroFuturism’ and i’m still not 100% fluent in Lemmy but… there’s literally no way back now.

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      I’m pretty sure that with the growth of lemmy, new and interesting communities will pop up all over the place. We just need to give it some time.

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      Same. Bit bummed out. But I can’t see Lemmy taking the reigns unfortunately. It took me 5+ instances to find a place where I could finally sign up.

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    Holy cow this is sad. I havent used RIF in probably a literal decade, but it was the first reddit app for android and I remember using it on my G1/htc dream back in the day. RIF predates a lot of the current era of the modern web and it existed even before the digsplosion. It’s a relic of a different age and it’s been growing and evolving this whole time.

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      undefined> G1/htc dream

      Just had a tiny wave of nostalgia reading those names. It was a different time indeed.

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    Man this is sad news. RIF had such a clean and usable interface compared to any modern social media front-end. But, the news got me here though, so that’s kind of nice!

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    I have loved and adored RIF since I bought golden platinum for it years ago, the 30th will be a depressing day.

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    Just waiting for Boost to join this crowd too. It was a good run, but those fees will kill all the third party clients eventually.

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      Boost was my client of choice for reddit, too. I doubt it will be able to survive despite being on the smaller side, the developer has been quite busy with his life. The change away from third-party apps is honestly the last straw for me with reddit; I can’t stand the new design and exclusively used the old.reddit design on browser. Happy to have a home that feels like the early days of reddit on desktop. I hope more people arrive at the same conclusion.

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    Slide will also shut down. Not because its devs want to, but because there aren’t any devs left. My favorite Reddit app, doomed, even if Reddit chose a more reasonable price for their API.