No worries. It’s all good. 😁

That’s Eric S Raymond (ESR) not Richard Stallman (RMS). ESR was an early and influencial voice in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), advocating for a distinction between Open Source and Free Software, acknowledging the GNU Public License (GPL) would not work for all parties, some flexibility was need.

RMS is a GPL purist and against any form of compromise. Both made a huge impact and helped make the world and internet better. But they both contributed in very different ways.

Everyone who used RIF should go BUY A COPY NOW, while you still can (if you haven’t already).

Show the Devs your love, and your thanks.

You can also email the devs to say your thanks in words. But your $2.99USD will be just as important!!

RIF was my way to get to Reddit. I will miss it terribly. So long, and thanks for all the fish.

My melancholy is tempered by the Fedirverse, Lemmy, and particularly, here at Beehaw! 😄

This feels like a better and nicer home, anyway. I’m sad for the loss, and this smaller community won’t have what the scale of Reddit’s user base could bring…but the nicer and happier community here has its own virtues.

It reminds me of the best of Slashdot, among other small and very valuable online communities of yore. 🙂

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.

Wow. That was quite the read. Thank you very much for sharing that, it definitely clears up a few things that I had sort of intuited, but not really articulated in my own head.