After Apollo, RIF is also going to shut down.
I have loved and adored RIF since I bought golden platinum for it years ago, the 30th will be a depressing day.
Sync is also going down. I hope that the blackout will have some impact on the execs, but I’m not expecting anything real to come.
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.
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.
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.
Its a strange time.
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!
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.
