It's real uncomfortable, not gonna lie. I've been checking reddit daily for well over a decade now, and it's incredibly disorienting to have that suddenly not be an option anymore. I really, really hope they change their minds about pushing through these asinine API changes so I can go back to using RIF like before, but if not, I'd way rather get used to Lemmy than get used to the official Reddit app and reward them for their scummy business practices.
Dude... I spent over ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS of my life visiting that site almost daily - just about always through rif. I'm a little beside myself, if we're being perfectly honest. (Which kinda feels dumb to say about something like reddit, but... There it is.) I mean, I realized last night that I was having to re-learn how to find news on the internet. Which was weird.
This isn't exactly what I needed on top of losing basically every long-term relationship I had left in the span of a year or so... Just sayin'. 🙃 (Can I emoji here? Lol Have mercy on me I'm quite clearly new at this🤣😂)
I had to delete Apollo. It is so baked into my routine. I put Mlem in its place to help with the muscle memory. Until more communities fill out on Lemmy, and until I learn to better utilize the service, I’m left feeling frustrated and confused
Not well. Not. Well.
But I'm not opening RIF. I just open Lemmy 42,000 times a day to see the same posts from yesterday and feel rising panic so I switch to the next distraction.
My sensory issues preclude tiktok-esque media (Videos WITH sound?! And like a ton of sound triggers?? Uhhhh no thank you).
So I'm not well and having a really bad time. But I'm here. And there are memes. And that's something.
My routine still makes me open rif before I even notice :(
But it seems a lot of my communities I followed on reddit for my professional area don't seem fazed at all and I don't find much other places for that area, so I probably am stuck at reddit for the foreseeable future :( at least lemmy doesn't seem to have any.