Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let’s do this! 🤝
Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.
Rif refugee reporting in
Tried the “official” app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min… RIP Rif
I’ve been trying it for concurrent to Rif and Sync. The differences are individually small, but taken as a whole the official app is just horrible. If it weren’t for Rif and Sync, I don’t think I would have become a Reddit user. I’m desperately hoping Lemmy reaches the critical mass and Sync for Lemmy becomes a thing.
Good news! Sync for Lemmy is already being worked on! Really excited to see how that turns out. I’ll follow that dev anywhere. Sync was amazing to use. Easiest purchase of my life.
You can sign up for Sync for Lemmy here:syncapps.io, you may have to use a Chromium-based browser and disable uBlock to register tho
Boost for Lemmy is also coming soon. (For those who preferred that to Sync. Both are awesome.) Nice to see former Reddit talent helping out in the Fediverse.
The official app os total junk and utterly unusable.
RIP RIF.
Looking forward to building something new here.
Same here brother.
As a former Apollo user, using wefwef for lemmy has made adoption so easy. 10/10, it’s basically an Apollo clone in-browser and has been working great. https://wefwef.app/
Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Lemmy are very nice :)
there’s something comforting seeing other Apollo friends here. Good to have you here!
Reporting in!
Wow, wefwef really does make me feel at home as an Apollo refugee. They weren’t lying!
Hi my brother in Apollo, welcome!
And that just makes it that much more clearer how much we need Apollo for Lemmy!
Another Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Memmy (haven’t settled on one yet) both have me feeling a bit at home. I hope Christian does an Apollo for Lemmy, but if not, these are great options.
Same here. I tried Lemmy and while ago and wanted to switch, but was held back by lack of a good app like Apollo and just the lack of users. Hopefully this will be the start of a change. Either way, not going back to Reddit.
Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.
No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.
I just switch a couple of days ago and I feel more willing to post and comment
My last day on Reddit I shared an excited post about a fun thing in a hobby sub of mine and I got such awful negative responses and people telling me I was attention seeking. It was really ugly. So that was pretty much when I decided to uninstall my Boost app and switch to Lemmy full time
I’m the same way!
What app are you using? So far I’ve tried Liftoff, but I’m looking for something closer to Relay
On Android, I’ve tried all of them that are out so far. Summit for Lemmy is pretty good but I’m liking Connect for Lemmy the best so far. I was a Joey for Reddit user.
I’m using Jerboa and have been testing Thunder since yesterday, not bad, but still a bit limited, we need to be patient and give the developers some time, there are already like 10 apps and a couple of forks of third party Reddit apps in active development.
I’ve tried most of the android apps available so far. Summit and Connect for Lemmy are my favorites so far. I was a Joey for Reddit user.
I hope dbrady considers creating a lemmy version of relay. I’d be happy to pay for another pro version.
The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.
It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.
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Yeah, but I do think a lot of clueless folks won’t leave. Honestly, I wonder if reddit is undergoing a massive brain-drain right now. I rather hope so, because it would mean Lemmy is getting some high-grade folks.
This is pretty much why I’m here… It feels like the folks who left are going to be good company.
Sync refugee here, RIP Sync. I can’t wait for Sync for Lemmy.
It’s time to teach them we can actually build a free, open source and popular alternative to their dystopian monopoly!
The sad part is reddit actually used to be open-source. They’ve become what they wanted to destroy. Sad times.
Much like Google’s motto used to read; don’t be evil.
And now they are easily one of the worst predatory tech companies. Go figure.
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
Take it as a reminder that we should always be faithful and coherent to our ideals!
I didn’t know that reddit was open source. How the times have changed
Much like Google’s motto used to read; don’t be evil.
Digg refuge reporting in.
I’m using WefWef.app for Lemmy and it’s awesome.
It’s a straight-up Apollo clone as a web app.
I am floored.
Left reddit and won’t look back. I like it here more already. Great community. Everyone here just wants it to work so bad and is being very patient through growing pains. Love you guys and fuck reddit!
Fuckspez
I didn’t know who Huffman, spez or the fact there was a bid to IPO until Apollo’s announcement of closure occurred. Why? Because I didn’t subscribe the Reddit’s main subreddits, I was very niche.
Once I learned about all that, I vowed if they didn’t reverse their standing and treatment of Christian, I was leaving.
Once the last week of June came and Spez triple-downed on his terrible business decision, I began using tools to destroy all of my content including topics I made that were all ranking #1 in Google, that causes plenty of PMs years after creation.
I’ve since deleted all but one account that I’ll probably hold onto just in case they decide to block my access to information I need.
I’ve deleted Apollo, Reddit’s official app and logged out on all browsers across all platforms I use. I’m done and liking WefWef as a replacement.
Just an FYI - some apps are still working as of this moment… But yeah, most of us know it’s only a matter of time.
Honestly, the content seems higher quality here. Perhaps the cesspools of Reddit were hard to spot for those of us who lurked there for over a decade.
Quality over quantity. Cheers to a new horizon, everyone.
I’m keeping my reddit account alive for just a handful of subreddits because there aren’t really equivalent communities here or elsewhere.
This is what I think needs to happen for the tipping point to occur.
It looks like people have done a good job building out the “Top 100” (minus all the duplicates across the various instances) but now it’s time to build the next 1,000 subs that give people a place for the more nuanced said that once made Reddit great.
Same here.
There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can’t see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.
But that’s it.
I feel like the past 3 weeks I’ve moved to a new city. And I’m discovering new communities here.
I’m trying to start convos/posts in the type of subs I used to like, in the hopes it’ll snowball. Also, upvoting people who have made similar efforts, to encourage them.
It’s been a while since I haven’t lurked, but back in the day (long before reddit) small forums absolutely had a handful of active people creating the reaction mass that draws other people in, and we’ll have to replicate that here.
Same. There’s a lot of subreddits that aren’t here yet that I need and that there aren’t many active forums for.
For example, I play a not uncommon instrument and I use the instrument’s subreddit occasionally. It’s a really good source for auditions, techniques, and resources. Unfortunately, there isn’t a community here and most of the forums on that instrument are dead/closed. I could go on Facebook and join groups on there, but is that really better than Reddit
yeah there are a few things, I still have reddit for, such as gun based subs and some comic book circle jerk pages. Mainly the gun stuff.
Other than that I pretty much only use this site. I probably need to take advantage of the reddit thing to leave behind these kind of forums in general and break my addiction
Same here. r/worldbuilding, r/writing, and r/writing prompts hasn’t had a sizable presence on lemmy yet…
I enjoy being able to make posts/comments/whatever and actually respond and get responses. And everyone actually interacts! It’s great!
I noticed that, too. reddit became so sad and depressing. Every cute animal had a granny comment “just like my pumpkin who i buried last week”.
The comments were dads trying to be funny, and the porn was self-proclaimed milfs trying to make a quick buck on onlyfans. I tried the nsfw server here, and of course the sellers are already there, but maybe it will be better with more individual governance, and with fewer people overall.
Maybe being the front page or the Internet isn’t so great after all for its users.
Hey! I’m a dad, and I consider myself marginally funny.
But I’m also a 10-year Reddit user, so I know what you mean. There’s a world of difference between old and modern Reddit. There was an actual “culture” that we were all a part of. I’d prefer a return to the “front page of internet culture” rather than keeping it alive as the “front page of popular media” it became.
Except I guess accessibility apps but not sure if it’s all or just one or two. Probably to get around fines.
Y’all are missing the real tragedy of this situation. This api fiasco means the end of RTV, reddit terminal viewer, the world’s finest TTY compatible reddit client. The days of reading reddit on an electronic typewriter are over.
Rip sync
Getting that “it’s been a hell of a ride” notification made it feel too real.
It made me a bit emotional. Can’t wait to use Sync for Lemmy.
Right? Glad it wasn’t just me.
