#reddit is fun

[wh3lmed]

Damn. It's actually gone.

[stupidfuckingbunny]

RIF going away song for June 2023:

Jay Park - Yesterday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATuP6CE0vxM

A message

Thank you everyone for your support since 2009.

Thank you to /u/anon_smithsonian in particular for taking care of everyone on /r/redditisfun.

RIF, you’re quirky and rough around the edges, but you’ve always gotten the job done. You know how to get out of the way and show people the articles, discussions, pictures, and videos they came for.

You have the silliest name, but we love you all the more for it. RIF will always be fun in our hearts.

RIF has been so much of my life.

I’m honored that so many of you have felt the same way.

Thank you for sharing this journey with me. It’s been fun.

https://www.talklittle.com/rif-is-fun/goodbye

[bigmeatpete69420]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!! THEY ARE SO DESPERATE FOR ME TO COME BACK THEY SENT ME AN EMAIL

I'm definitely not overreacting/overlooking into it

Fuck you reddit change api back

Ps I never ever purchased any coin or award or no shit like that I did pay reddit is fun for their premium app because of how good it was

[gnosisandtheosis]

My Reddit Recap 2024 is kinda sweet.

[william-snekspeare]

This is so real

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Chinese calligraphy cr 祁么么mo

I saw this comment under the previous calligraphy video, and honestly, I’m not sure how Reddit jumped to that conclusion. These videos are from 祁么么mo, a professional calligraphy and stationery content creator. She’s posted other hand-cam footage—writing flawless print font in sand with a twig, even modifying an electric toothbrush to write near-perfect print-like characters using its vibrating head. No offense to Reddit, but this isn’t ‘critical viewing’; it’s baseless arrogance. Also, name one prosthetics company that nails hyper-realistic cuticles and hangnails. Not coming for this commenter specifically, but I’ve noticed how a big chunk of Reddit loves to trash stuff from Xiaohongshu. Like, they’re weirdly obsessed with it—but every time it’s some performative ‘debunking’ like ‘everything on Xiaohongshu is fake.’ 

[beckai42]

I feel the same - I spent years of my life on reddit. And yes, I complained about it (and blamed my brother for introducing me to reddit and killing my attention span), but at least once a week I would see something - a post, a comment chain, an in-depth analysis of some incredibly niche subject on r/bestof - and I would think "This is why I love reddit. Where else would you get this sort of content?"

And it turns out the answer to that is... nowhere. Not really, anyway.

Tumblr is great, but only really filled up 2 of the 20-something-plus subreddits I used to browse daily. I've tried to find similar tags and blogs but the user base is different, there's no comment chains, and it's just not the same.

I miss r/bestof, I miss r/howto, I miss r/AskReddit, I miss r/BORU, I miss r/tipofmytongue and r/nostupidquestions and r/twoxchromosomes and a million other communities that have just... gone.

And I mourn.

At the start, I didn’t think much about the Reddit strike. I use Reddit often, but it wasn’t hard for me to just…not use it for a few days. “Yay, let’s strike! Anyway.”

But now, it’s really hitting me just how horrifying all of this is. Three times today I’ve tried to find an answer to some obscure question, found an answer on Reddit, and then been blocked from it because the subreddit was privated. Say what you want about Reddit being an unreliable source, but so much gathered knowledge is currently locked away, and it will be lost forever if Reddit collapses because of the changes. I keep thinking back to last year’s r/place. How beautiful that collaboration was. I even used it in class to try and justify the internet to a teacher, and she found it profoundly meaningful. And now this hub of culture that seemed so permanent last week feels like it’s on borrowed time. All of this history is both frozen in time and on thin ice. There’s nothing to replace it right now. Definitely not tumblr, with its search functions that feel downright malicious.

Maybe I’m just new, but I don’t think community can live on here like it does on Reddit. It can live, but it’s doomed to be nomadic. Posts cycle around for years but you’d struggle to find a specific one without using google. Here, we’re always going to be wanderers, shouting into the void, walking the same familiar tags. Hold onto your mutuals, because they’re all you have. But Reddit is both community and archive. You can find people there, find things, find decade old posts. There’s problems of course, but I think the toxicity is worth it for everything else that it offers. There’s wisdom on Reddit. We will lose so much if we lose it.

To the Reddit refugees. You probably won’t see this post, but if you do, welcome. It’s a mess here, but you can find some things if you’re patient.

[colossal-idiotx]

[ninoochat]

i miss reddit is fun so fucking much id just go into one of my multi and just do random searches and scroll through the pretty pictures for hours

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Just found Hugh Grant’s Reddit AMA from 2014, featuring such gems as “I love to kill” and “I will pour almost anything down my throat”

Source: Hugh Grant Reddit AMA

[boxofoxberry]

you've got mail! :D

[localfatguy]

Hey, uh... Is anyone elses RIF still working? Or any other third party apps? I feel like I'm doing something illegal. I like it.

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

R.I.P Reddit is Fun.

You were a good lil app.

God their official app is just so bad..

[gnosisandtheosis]

It appears I have been banned from r/magick for referring to Israel as a white supremacist, apartheid state. One of the mods claimed this was antisemitic dogwhistling.

[fantasykiri5]

Guy who is Bonita ‼️

[mleemwyvern]

hi impulse! i hope tumblr treats you well. here's the traditional welcome.