Its been one day without Reddit

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& I’m doing pretty good! The wefwef app has done a great job of recreating the Apollo experience and has made it a lot easier to not want to go and download the Reddit app. The more active it gets here, the easier it’ll be. How are you guys doing so far? Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?

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Yeah Lemmy seems the way forward. It just sucks for all the subs that won't be making it here anytime soon. Niche subs I'm following for example, I'll still have to rely on Reddit.

There's definitely a period of transition. I didn't expect to completely jump ship since I replied so heavily on reddit for community information and general news. However Lemmy does look really promising.

It does actually. I'm creating a community for one of the subreddits I was a part of, hopefully more people will join and fully migrate from Reddit.

It's heroes like you that make it all possible. Not everyone has the time or ability to moderate a new community, but it's great that those that do take initiative to do so. Once the community exists at all, it's much easier for others to start posting, which gets the ball rolling. There isn't any silver on this site to give but here, have a Lemmy Lemon 🍋

When Lemmy gives you a Lemon, you make lemonade 🍋

I was forced to take a serious look at the number of subs I was following for drama's sake before opening my own sub because I don't want to be at it 24/7

Can‘t you just open them yourself?

I opened a couple sure but the problem is getting the traffic on here. I can't just make a post on the subreddit because it gets removed immediately by the mods.

It is quite sad and yet at the same time also an exciting time. I was on Reddit for 9 years and it has kind of become the internet for me.

I myself was 99% only a passive user, so I have contributed nothing to the value of the site. But the site itself had a lot to offer for me.

But I also realized that Reddit, the platform itself, hardly provides anything relevant.

I probably would never have used Reddit much without a 3rd party app, I also use it exclusively on mobile.

For me, the value of the site comes exclusively from the content, i.e. the community. And fortunately, that's something Reddit has no direct control over.

I realize, of course, that not everyone will be here now in 6 months instead of on Reddit, but it doesnt matter.

I think the majority of users are like me rather passive, but more important are the active users of the community.

It is much more important to have these pillars of the community on board, as they will sooner or later ensure that something new is created that will then attract the larger number of passive users.

And I think it's this usergroup that has angered Reddit for the most part. These are power users who probably all use 3rd party apps.

Nevertheless, many will of course stay, if you have put a lot of work and heart and soul into building up your community/subreddit for years, letting go is of course much harder than for someone like me.

Yep 10 years of rif for me. I found towards the end it was getting pretty stagnant. Its exciting to see something new growing in real time. All aboard the fediverse express.

Not only something new, but also something that everyone in the community is excited about and have a vested interest in.

Wefwef made all the difference. While I know it’s not Reddit the similarities in experience have made the move much easier.

Also amazing to see the beginning of all of these new communities!

Still trying to find my footings. The thing I miss most is active engagement. The comment sections sometimes feel so empty. But I will give it time. All in all, I find the experience better than I anticipated. Using wefwef on my phone and the instance-site on my desktop and laptop. I am sure a decent app will be developed in time.

I felt that at first but I've found the engagement to be more meaningful here when it does happen, even though it's sometimes sparse or not at all. I came in the previous influx after spez started forcing subs open. I don't really miss it that much now.

I was pretty much a strict lurker on Reddit, so the smaller community here is certainly a bit of a change for me. Only thing for me to do is to change my habits with it, and start actually joining in and adding to the conversations.

Howdy!

In recognition of your contribution to the community, I present you with the coveted Lemmy Lemon award.

🍋

Agree the big thread here are pretty comparable, but are still missing a lot of small subreddit/thread.

You have summed up my feelings exactly.

Greetings, fellow lurker! The torch has been passed. It is our turns to carry it until the communities grow larger and we can recede back to the shadows

I honestly feel like there is more engagement here. Most Reddit threads were like telling into the wind. By the time you got there it was almost always too late to contribute

I've found myself actually reading articles since I can't go in and just read someone else's synopsis of the content, which frankly is a good thing. I can get my own information and form my own opinions, Reddit just let me be lazy but it's a nice change.

As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see, and engagement will follow. I think there is still some fine tuning to be done in terms of the sorting algorithms as well, which would ideally get day old content out and active but fresh content in. A lot of dust left to settle with the great migration underway.

I'm surprised at how easy it was to make the switch. Now that servers are stabilizing here this is pretty much a very similar experience.

I kinda prefer Lemmy atm. It feels fresh in a way Reddit hasn't in a long time.

I'm here on the fediverse via Jerboa. I agree it's definitely deterring me from using the official Reddit app!

I'd been using Baconreader for about 10 years, and I'm blown away at how easy the transition has been. Still don't fully understand the fediverse (made my account yesterday lol), but this post was really helpful for getting started!

I could easily see this being a more seamless switch than we feared. So far I am hopeful!

Lemmy is amazing. 1 day clean from reddit was easy, let's do 1 year next!

I’ve been using wefwef too (and I’m also an Apollo refugee). Liking it so far, even if I am very confused about how a lot of this works. I hope the Lemmy community continues to grow!

This isn't the best example, but helped me a lot in understanding it (mostly) It works kind of like E-mail. Each instance is like an email provider. Lemmy.world, beehaw, lemmy.ml, ect are kind of like gmail, yahoo mail, and outlook. So the instance you signed up for is your "lemmy provider" as if Google is your email provider. Now when you email people, you can email to any other provider (yahoo, outlook, etc) and vice versa. They are all similar services but different providers, but they all work together so any person can email any other person. They are federated - one big services, but each provider has its own autonomy in deciding rules, features, etc. So most instances can work with other instances to share information/posts. But not all. Some have deferdeated form others and don't share posts/information. As if yahoo said they we're no longer accepting emails from google. So gmail user's emails would not get sent to Yahoo mail users, but others, like outlook, would. You would say they defederated from google. Much like beehaw did from lemmy.world.

Why would an instance choose to defederate? Maybe I am misunderstanding but wouldn't this result in several communities being split into several instances without even knowing about each other? Smaller communities (for example I was following a subreddit for bicycle touring) might be too dispersed to function then, no?

While you are correct, the reasons for Beehaw defederating from lemmy seems to be something they have to do in order to moderate their own instance. As the technology grows (and hopefully modtools get built - like bots perhaps? and more mods in general), there will be no need to deferederate like Beehaw did. However, to give you an example as to why an instance would want to defederate (essentially, be private), is if it's for an exclusive group of people. A workplace, or a subscription add-on. (think like, subscribing to a patreon, and as part of their offering, you get to sign up for their lemmy (or whatever server) instance). Maybe that isn't how it would work, but in my brain, that's a way it could be used and be beneficial :)

I think that’s a pretty good analogy. One of the things I’m still struggling with is how communities work across instances. If I follow casual conversations on one instance, will I see posts on that community from other instances? Or do I have to follow each individual instance of that community? As I’m trying to find new communities to follow, I often get confused if I’m already following a specific community or which instance I should choose to follow it on.

You can see posts/conversations from other instances if the instances are federated(communicate with each other), which most are/do(?). You just have so subscribe to the communities that aren't on your instance to do so. But some instances aren't federated. For example, Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world (and another I forget which) early on due to the open sign ups and moderations issues. I'm on lemme.world, I can go on a beehaw community, I can see the posts, and read through the conversations, but I don't think they can see if I reply to anything( so I don't). But this is where I start to lose my grasp on the technology too, so if anyone more knowledgeable than me wants to chime in...

Killing Bacon Reader was a deal breaker for me. Not looking back at all.

Former RIF user here. I rather not use reddit than use the official spyware app

I deleted my account once Sync stopped working. So glad Ljdawson is switching it over to lemmy

I'm happy that boost for Reddit is still working, but I know that once boost for lemmy is released I'll never look back at reddit. Fuck u/spez for how he treated his users

Seems like Boost can go down any minute. It says it was shutting down on July 1 but it's still up.

Yeah, it seems that reddit hasn't yet made the rate limit changes to the API. They talk about it here how it will go into effect the upcoming week(s)

Honestly, I'm pretty excited about being a "pioneer" (sorry to those who have been here for longer). I never commented much on Reddit, but plan to contribute more here.

I'm making an active effort to comment here more. I feel like that's the case with a ton of people who are here now and that's why the community seems so awesome.

I'd love to comment more but I'm still so confused. People keep talking about all these other apps and here I am just typing lemmy.world into my chrome browser on my phone. I've never felt more old. I've read every how-to I can find and I think I need to just come to terms with being old. 🥲

Hey! You made it here and you're posting comments Lol. You already jumped the biggest hurdle and got signed up. If you didn't want to try another app but wanted a cleaner interface, put wefwef.app into your phones browser and log in with that. But even just using it how you are is fine! That's the great thing about this, we can all use different apps and still reach the same place.

Thanks so much! That's reassuring. I am still a little confused about all the apps and widgets that are being discussed and/or recommended, but everyone has been so helpful, I'm sure I'll get the hang of it eventually.

Give it a few months, when more apps are released and more people join/add more content. Lemmy is one thing, but having an app that can show Lemmy in a more simple way for new users, will help a lot. So far, we have a bunch of apps that do the same thing in different ways, you just have to choose which one fits your style.

My first time commenting on Lemmy 😅

If you want to try an easy solution, WefWef is a webapp that can be used from a browser or installed as a PWA and takes many queues from the popular (now defunct) Apollo Reddit app.

Many proper third party apps are in development, with some of them having early releases available already. There is a list here where you can explore and keep track of them.

If the mobile website fine for you, you don't need to get an app. I used the mobile website in my phone's browser with no problem for a few days before I started trying out apps out of curiosity. So far, I've settled on the Liftoff app, but again having an app isn't necessary because of how well the mobile website works. I'm not someone who needs an app for everything and I prefer it when mobile websites are useable. Reddit made me angry when they made their mobile website annoying to use by trying to force people onto their app. I used a 3rd-party app instead, but now that's going away so here I am on Lemmy.

If you don't want to bother with Lemmy apps, you can create a shortcut to Lemmy.world on your phone's home screen which can make it faster to open up Lemmy as if you were using an app. Since you're using Chrome, I'm assuming you're on Android, so here are some instructions if you want to add the shortcut.

How to Add a Website to Your Android Home Screen

Hope that helps!

Edit: Also, if you do want to try out an app, Here's a post with some Lemmy apps that are currently available. If you need any more help, just let us know!

That's all so helpful, thank you so much!

I edited my first comment with this Lemdro.id link that lists all available apps with descriptions if you're interested in finding an app that works for you. If you want to vote and comment on that post with your lemmy.world account, I think this link will work for you https://lemmy.world/c/lemdroid@lemdro.id From there just go to the topic. Hmm, my preview is showing that link as a lemm.ee link (my instance) rather than a lemmy.world link, so sorry if it doesn't work for you. But I include it to show you how to make links on other instances accessible to your own account on a different instance for voting, subscribing, and commenting.

'Your instance url/c/community name@community's instance url' does the trick. Took me a little while to figure that out, so I thought I'd give you a tip too. 🙂

The other way to do it is just to go to Communities at the top of your instance and use the search box to search for the community name. Make sure to select All under List of Communities so that the results include communities on other instances. When the community comes up in the results, you'll be able to go to it and interact with it on your account. Just look to make sure it's right instance as we do have some duplicate communities in the Fediverse across different instances. Like if you search Android in the Communities search box with All selected, we currently have 3 communities that are /c/Android but on 3 different instances: lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and Lemdro.id. But if you search Lemdroid, there's only one community and that's on Lemdro.id.

Also I don't know if you've seen this image which helped me understand more how Lemmy works: The Fediverse for Reddit Refugees. It goes over with pictures how to search for Lemmy communities.

Lemmy also has an API that clients can get information/content from. The Web frontend (lemmy.world) is one of them. Apps like wefwef and Jerboa also ask the Lemmy API for content and display it in their own way.

Thank you! Would you be able to explain what element.io is? I'm going around trying all the buttons and when I click the button to PM someone I get a note saying it's not secure and to make an account on element.io

That's the second time this site or someone on it has prompted me to make another account somewhere else (the first was mastodon,) and I'm not really grasping why. I understand the "login for secure communications" part, but not how all these apps/websites work together and which ones I need. I signed up for Mastodon but it's like a 3rd party app for Twitter and that has me extra confused.

Element is a client for Matrix, a decentralized chat protocol featuring end-to-end-encryption. Lemmy seems to support DMs over the Matrix Chat protocol. Matrix is federated, so user1@matrix.org can talk to user2@matrixinstance.space.

Some fediverse apps can work together seamlessly, some can't, and support seems to be growing over time. E. g. Mastodon users can comment on PeerTube, but Lemmy users can't (not that I know of), but it's not impossible that will change in the future. But, kbin for example integrates seamlessly into Lemmy.

same here, tbh. lemmy's no-nonsense ui works great on a phone, and with modern ui design that's actually expected behavior. so many sites intentionally break their mobile site to push people toward apps but that doesn't mean the browser should be useless on mobile.

That's so true! I guess I've kinda forgotten the days when I used reddit on my desktop browser. I used rif and other apps for so long, being back in my browser feels foreign again.

The internet seems fresh for a fleeting moment

I already don't miss it, will take a few weeks to break the muscle memory of opening a reddit tab every time I'm bored for more than 2 seconds

sidenote, has anyone been able to get dark mode to stick, or is that broken for now?

I refuse to download the app from Reddit. If they would have done some good faith negotiation and somehow still didn't work out for Apollo, I would have gone with it. But now, fuck them, fuck spez and fuck the power hungry mods that supported him.

I am happy to call Lemmy and specially lemmy.world my new home. We are in this together and we will push this project further.

Unfortunately, the reddit app doesn't have the features I want - Sync was a perfect fit, I didn't want to see automod pinned comments on every thread (and a while ago reddit removed the ability to block automod natively), bacon reader did have this feature within the app but after a while stopped perusing it.

I can't use a client where I'm ass-blasted with ads and garbage that I cannot filter out, so here I am... We'll see how it goes.

I wish I knew about this feature blocking the pinned comments. I never understood why they were even used, it just trained every user to unconsciously ignore the top mod comment

Hello fell Reddit Refugees! Yeah I've been a near daily reddit user on Sync for Reddit (Sync Pro) since 2014 or so. Now leading up to the API shutdown I was using reddit about once a week and you already know I had to use Sync one last time on the final day, but

I've mostly been using Lemmy for about two weeks now. I've tried a lot of apps (Jeroba, Thunder, Liftoff), but ultimately I also ended up on wefwef. It's seems to be the one of snappier ones so far. It's super strange because since it is themed after Apollo, it looks like I have an iPhone app on my Android! I know that when Sync for Lemmy comes out (about six weeks I think) I'll jump ship immediately, but for now I'm really liking wefwef.

I've made it my mission to lurk less on Lemmy then I did on Reddit so I can try and help the platform succeed with some small amounts of content that I can contribute. Recently I've been very interested in AI image generation, so I made a community centered around that. I also made a community centered around video game giveaways to hopefully share more wholesome content on the platform. Overall, I'm hoping that since Lemmy is so new that all of us can take some control in steering it in an overall better direction than Reddit. I'm personally on team No Karma, since I think it makes Lemmy a lot less toxic and a lot less about having something to brag about and more about being something to be proud of.

Good luck to everyone who's a recovering Reddit addict with their quests to become Fediverse addicts!

Edit: Wefwef accidentally posted my comment 3 times saying it failed to post. So I guess there's still some kinks to work out!

I hadn’t thought of that! It would be nice to just abolish karma altogether. Like keep scores in comments, but not on accounts.

I think AI image generation is cool too, I’ll check your community out!

Learned about wefwef 30min ago and love it already. Now Lemmy is an actual alternative to Reddit for me.

I'm having the hardest time using Lemmy. I got Jerboa and subscribed to 3 communities. However I see other communities online and Jerboa can't seem to find them. How can I force Jerboa to locate a community?

People keep saying Lemmy is easy to use but it doesn't seem to be so far even though I'm really trying to stay away from Reddit. That's one thing that Reddit has an advantage in, it's very easy to use.

Lemmy is still in a very early stage and development is accelerating super fast in the last weeks. I read somebody say Reddit was also very hard to use 15 years ago. However I can absolutely understand the frustration that can come with Lemmy and all the young apps.

I'm no expert but I see two possible solutions for your problem.

One could be that your instance does not know the community yet. All communities that are local on your instance should be found by Jerboa. The most other big ones too, because other users of your instance have already joined one of them (only after 1 person subscribed, the community is known for everyone). If you are looking for niche communities, you may have to search with the whole link, so search for https://feddit.de/c/ich_iel instead of ich_iel and wait for 10 seconds.

The other one could be to to set standard links for jerboa. You can do this on Android in the app settings of Jerboa, I don't know how the option is called in English but it should be easy to find. Same place where you delete storage and cache, handle permissions etc. If you press on "add links" you can select all the different instances (feddit.de, Lemmy.world etc.). Maybe you can open the community you want to locate by opening the link to it with Jerboa.

That's only some ideas. You can also consider trying out other apps such as Connect for Lemmy or Liftoff. It seems Slide and Boost will also be developed if I'm correct. It needs some time until everything is round, but so far most of us are amazed what has already been done!

Thanks for the suggestions. However they didn't work.

What's odd is that the instance I joined does seem to know about the other instance as I can see one community on the other instance. Could the community on the other instance be "hiding" themselves somehow?

Here's the one I'm trying to join: https://midwest.social/c/milwaukee

Edit: I finally got it to work! I went to the web interface for my instance and kept searching for it and then it finally found it. Once the web interface found it, then Jerboa found it.

Great, then my theory was correct. Yes the instance was known, but not the community.

Can you recommend a resource that would explain these differences and more Lemmy lingo? I'm still quite overwhelmed by everything. Thanks!

Most oft the stuff I know I read from some explanation posts in my first days, but I don't habe a link atm. You can always read the Lemmy docs, there is a section "following communities", but that's also a very basic level without too much technical details.

I will send you some resources if I stumble over them again!

Thanks! I think while we all figure this out it's good to just coast along as well. Fake it till you make it, haha!

People who say Lemmy is easy to use don't understand that it's difficult to get people with a centralized mindset to understand this whole fediverse thing. I'm going to try and explain a bit of what's going on in the background, not really the step by step that @gigachad@feddit.de went into.

The way it works is that an instance can have communities. Those communities can be subscribed to by any user on any instance (barring federation blacklists/whitelists, but that's a whole other rabbit hole).

Subscribing to a community that nobody on your instance has subscribed to yet will start the process of your instance pulling in all the information. Your instance will essentially have a local copy of that community that you can interact with. It will then periodically synchronize with the instance that hosts the community.

A brand new instance will not pull in anything from any instance. Users have to subscribe to start the process of pulling in communities. In theory (software bugs, network issues, servers being overloaded, etc all play havoc here), interacting with a community on another instance should feel relatively seamless. You post a comment, it gets synced to the home instance, then all other instances pull your comment from the community next time they sync.

Nice OP!

Same here, if anything this whole thing has done me a favour. Many times the past year i've considered giving up reddit. I tend to scroll reddit when I play with the dog after walkies, and the amount of time my brain says 'why you do this shit?' as I scroll past nothing, looking at comment chains of constant bickering. Why am I scrolling pasts hundreds of pointless comments, meandering bad takes, puns, the time wasted...for what gain? It was kinda an addiction I guess.

The first day has been great tbh, Memmy feels good despite the instance' slowness. The Hot filter is pretty good for catching newISH posts, or light comment posts which i've been tagging onto.

It really feels like old school forum days, and it's been really awesome to have my inbox popping off with replies. What's the point of lots of comments like a big reddit thread when no one replies or even sees your comment? Really looking back, it was just pissing in the wind.

Or if you did get a reply over on pigboycity, it would be some massive drangus trying to start a fight. Just ugh. I deleted my posts and account yesterday, now reddits just gonna be my suffix for google searches when I need something (until the fed starts getting indexed over the coming months/years).

I also really like the look here. old.reddit to me always looked shit from a UI standpoint (Despite being massively better than New, of course). lemmy.world just looks concise without being overwhelming. I'm excited to see growth and engage with real people again just like the old days.

I felt the same way about my activity on Reddit! I originally joined years ago to get homework help. I had little experience with forums but thought Reddit would be a place to gain a better understanding of niche communities and higher-quality content. I was never into typical social media sites/microblogging because it felt like a chore trying constantly to update your feed; short-form content outside YouTube didn't really hook me. Foolishly, I thought joining Reddit would equate to "superior" content or that investing time there was more valuable than on other sites.

In the end, we can all see that the site has and was very toxic and addicting, arguably not that much different from Twitter (the difference between a sentence and an essay). People constantly seek to argue with others without netiquette; without coming with an open mind and reading through articles. It took me a long time to self-discipline myself to steer away from drama and find niche communities that didn't trigger those kinds of activities, such as r/CasualConversation. But even those communities weren't bulletproof (tbf nothing on the internet is).

Being on Lemmy has encouraged me to have a healthier relationship with the internet/social media (even though I became a mod 🤪). Hosting a small community has reminded me of the importance of valuable conversations; that a post's value isn't necessarily determined by its upvotes and comment counts. Sincerity and effort surmount all those things.

With Redditors moving to Lemmy, I hope that they come with a different mindset. We shouldn't be trying to make this site a Reddit clone. This shouldn't be a site where you have to be on daily, be updated constantly with new content, or fester arguments.

I'll miss the old.reddit UI, with all its faults I loved how each subreddit had its own customized html theme! I'll kinda miss some of the instant content, news, and videos.

Though the Fediverse can't solve all the internet's problems, we should set an example for other communities by fostering a place where true conversations/discussions can be made and be alternatives for people who don't want to have to go through ads and algorithmic content made to trigger toxic arguments for revenue. I hope you'll have a better experience in our community and find your niche 😊

That’s a great summation of what Reddit has become over time. These past few days have been especially tough, seeing all the garbage takes from ‘people’ that I hope are bots, but are most likely just lazy and close-minded. It’s just…so, so bad.

I wonder if it’s because all the worthwhile posters migrated to Lemmy, kbin or elsewhere, leaving only the dregs to populate Reddit threads with their horrific takes.

I desperately miss RIF, and I have a community I care about on Reddit that I mod.

But I'm going to see if I can rebuild it here. I think Reddit has basically committed suicide.

I am finding myself absentmindedly clicking my Apollo icon every hour. I’m happy to say screw Reddit for years and years of bucking user preferences and accessible 3rd party apps, but this is definitely an unfortunate transition to leave behind all the many years of content and critical mass of activity Reddit has. I’m still having to use the browser version to access subreddits related to school admissions stuff because there’s extremely valuable content I just can’t get elsewhere yet.

I just hope something pushes another big wave of users off of the platform soon and keeps the momentum going. Knowing Reddit admins it’s only a matter of time.

Exactly, I'm in a degree where I have to Google a lot and some subreddits having gone dark certainly has been making some aspects of my life harder. Even just adding site:reddit.com to some queries hasn't been as effective lately.

Still the reddit's admins fault, fuck /u/spez

So glad I had the push to get off reddit, so nice here, and its always nice to start over with a fresh slate, hopefully I will be here for another 7 years

Honestly, I really want to use Lemmy, but the performance of Lemmy.world is almost a deal-breaker. Comments and posts don't load half the time, sometimes typing can even be slow wefwef. I feel like I've made my bed with lemmy.world and don't really want to make accounts on different instances in the hope of getting usable performance.

Been holding off on wefwef until now. I did not realize it looked so closely similar to Apollo. I’ll be using wefwef forever now.

I’m doing just fine 💙 need to get out on the water though…

I uninstalled sync when Reddit committed suicide. Using connect now and it's pretty good. Slowly building things back up and communities are coming to life. I don't think Reddit will ever recover.

I'm waiting for Sync for Lemmy, using Liftoff atm.

So far Jerboa has been the best one for me, I tried wefwef but wasn't a big fan (and couldn't work out how to uncensor NSFW content across the board, very annoying haha).

But Boost is coming out at some point! I'm really looking forward to it!! <3

So far I'm doing okay, just tough with how slow everything runs and all the network errors and stuff, but it's early days so I'm patient :-)

I'm on Jerboa as well and enjoy it. I'm just not sure whether I'm missing the larger picture or it's just not robust enough yet.

Either way, I find I'm not missing much.

Enjoy the fediverse !

Checking in at 2 weeks without Reddit, and I'm so happy that this forcing function got me to discover Lemmy and the fediverse. I enjoy it so much more, I'm browsing multiple instances and it feels like the days I discovered Reddit.

As for apps, just FYI Lemmy and KBin are progressive web apps so you can click "add to home screen" and get an app for free, I've been using it that way exclusively so far and it works well enough for me.

I've mostly lurked so far, but I was compelled to create an account after seeing how much responses on assorted lemmy communities remind me of the old phpbb days. Significantly more cordial and well thought out than the average reddit/twitter/what have ye replies. I'm pretty optimistic about the fediverse now that I've experienced it despite initially not thinking much of it; it seems to combine the best elements of web 1.0 and 2.0.

It'll be nice if more and more migrate over.

There's something amusing about opening up what's almost a Reddit clone a day after and seeing content and subs that would have been exactly like it was on Reddit here instead.

As long as momentum continues, we may see more and more leaving Reddit for what's nearly the same thing with a lot less BS.

I just hope Lemmy servers and infrastructure can handle the growing popularity, especially once there's popular native clients that switch from Reddit to it.

Would be very happy if spez ends up having killed his own platform in future retrospection though.

I think I need to redirect reddit.com in my DNS to lemmy.world, because my muscle memory always brings me back to reddit

I have been using Wefwef and Memmy, and I’m not sure what I prefer, as they’re quite similar, but I think Wefwef is edging it out for me. It feels a little better.

I’m still on Reddit at the moment because some of the niche communities I’m into just don’t have a lot going on here. For instance, I love wrestling, I’m part of three wrestling communities on here, and Reddit still has more going on.

That said, I’m looking to get off Reddit completely sooner than later. Still finding all my communities. I don’t expect this place to get as big as Reddit, but I do want to see a little more activity.

Keep at it! I suspect these first few days will be the hardest. I uninstalled BaconReader last night and put "Connect for Lemmy" in its place on my home screen. So far it's been a pretty easy transition!

I am never going to bow down to reddit filth. The Dragon of Dojima never surrenders to assholes making 3rd party devs lives miserable. I am just looking for RiF alternative. Apollo seems to have gotten a good one by wefwef but I sed RiF for years as my main app

The only thing I really miss from Reddit is the cryptocurrency mainreddit and the subreddits. Lemmy is definitely going to be amazing once other like-minded individuals migrate to lemmy.

I never quite understood the appeal of the crypto subreddits. They all felt like dark pits filled entirely with grifters, and the analyses often reflected that. Finding a diamond in the rough insight was all I used it for. I’d love to learn whether I missed something.

I used Boost Android app for Reddit and now moved to WefWef. It's already really good and looking very promising for the future considering the speed at which it is evolving

I never used any Reddit app other than the official one but I wanted to check out Lemmy as an alternative and I’ve gotta say, I’m liking it a lot so far! I’m on wefwef as well and it’s a pretty good experience. I’ll probably start contributing to some of the communities I’m interested in to help them grow and hopefully the growth continues across the platform!

I’m also looking into hosting my own instance, I might work on getting that set up in the next couple weeks.

Only issue I’ve seen is that it’s been a little slow here and there, but I understand that it’s in the growing pains stage so I’m not too worried.

When I used it it had video and image loading issues. After 1 video watched you could no longer watch any videos and after scrolling a through couple images those stopped loading altogether. It's been a couple years since then so i hope it's fixed,but after recent developments I am never using it to be sure.

I knew I had an issue with the amount of time I spent on Reddit.

But good lord the repeated opening of Reddit Sync to no avail over the past days really driven home just how much I just defaulted to Reddit in any dead time.

I deleted my Reddit account on June 11th, so just over 3 weeks ago, and I don't miss it. Lemmy is doing a perfectly fine job filling that void. I'm quite happy here.

Doing fantastic. People are slowly posting content. The platform slows down due to spike in users but it gets better little by little. I like seeing content from other instances although you can't really reply to posts. It is great as a place to discover content, one day at a time i guess. I will not be using reddit in the foreseeable future though.

I'm very happy this space is flourishing. Lots of organic conversation and increased engagement. My only hope is that this revolt against corporate social media will be sustained. I would love to see this turn in to an existential threat to the companies selling our data and privacy to the highest-bidding advertiser.

I visited Reddit for 16 years. RIF on android then Slide on iOS. Slow to learn how Lemmy works.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised the site’s burned. But it’s an adjustment - with how often I check my (now broken) app mindlessly, I actually think the scummy CEO did me a favor!

Wefwef as a web app is really really good. I’m also enjoying liftoff! App for iOS.

I'm using Connect at the moment has been fine. Looking forward to the new version of Sync. But the only sub I miss is buildapcsales but only a matter of time.

I'm currently trying out Jerboa. Made my Lemmy acc yesterday, but made my Mastodon acc back in Feb so I've been on the Fediverse for at least a while.

Not bad, feels a little bit like going on a reddit detox, the slower speed of the different communities is kind of nice.

So from the user experience side, I'm actually liking Lemmy even just with the mobile site, which I'm guessing varies instance to instance. There's a couple quality of life tweaks I'd make but it's a lot smoother than expected.

A problem I am having though, which I hope clears itself, is that I'd say upwards of 90% of the posts I'm seeing are either "Reddit is dead to us" or "Wow Lemmy is great!" Both of which are fair viewpoints that they around certainly be allowed to share, but when that is the vast majority of the content, it does not entice me to regularly return.

The two things I regularly used Reddit for (Keeping up with a couple hobbies and educational materials) have communities but are largely inactive at the moment. I am aware that I can help the situation by engaging with them--and I will!--but so far the pervasiveness of the Reddit posts has definitely taken the enthusiasm out.

This post isn't quite what I am talking about, though, as you are at least promoting discussion, which is good!

Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable

the devs from memmy are really open to suggestions too (gotta join the discord/github) - it reminds me of Apollo in that regard

Are there any apps for Lemmy that have a "hide read" feature? I had recently started using Sync for Reddit for that feature, because I like to be able to refresh and see all new posts instead of weeding through stuff I've already seen. Any tips would be appreciated!

I've only tried one Lemmy app so far, Jerboa. It's fine...

I'm still struggling with the muscle memory of opening baconreader pretty much all the time. I spent some time on Reddit too, on my PC, and it's kinda bland.... Since everyone seems to be here. But this place is still ramping up, so I'm interested to see what happens in the coming weeks.

It's been one day without Reddit and I've realized that I don't really need it, despite being on the site since 2009 and by far my most used social network. At the end of the day, the community is more important than the site, and I think most of the communities have far since declined on Reddit, then moved on to Discord/ Lemmy/ whatever.

I could never even get into Reddit. I couldn't post because I didn't have karma so it was useless to me.

Ngl find it all a bit confusing still, however it definitely seems like the beginnings of something special

I've been using lemmy for a couple of weeks now and it's going pretty good. I recently setup a second account on a smaller instance because lemmy.world became often laggy.

I've tried jerboa, liftoff, and took a look at wefwef but I'd prefer an application instead of a webpage. Ofthe three I'd say I like liftoff the best but none of the apps/sites I've tried have all the features I want.

There's a chance that Slide (my preferred reddit app) is going to be repurposed for lemmy so hopefully that pans out. I'll try sync as well when it'sreleased.

Lemmy is keeping me busy, and is like how Reddit should have been

I like Summit best of the three apps I've tried (Lemmy and Thunder being the other two). It's a pretty bare bones layout and style of navigation, which I prefer.

As for missing reddit, well... it seems like most of the community spirit/attitude was slipping away following the API changes. I'm hoping to find it again here and I like what I see so far!

Edit: yeah no, wefwef blows the rest out of the water, fr

Check out wefwef, jerboa and Connect as well.

Many more to come in the near future.

Yeah I’m using WEFWEF, I like the Apollo vibe. Somehow I don’t miss Reddit that much. There is only one subreddit I missed. It is r/Ukraine as I don’t to find that much up to date info on Fediverse. I will open a telegram account to feed the fedi-communities. Hopefully there are some Ukranian/Russian speakers in here to help with translation.

You could still follow the headlines from lemmit.online

Thanks I didn’t know about that one. I’m still new with the Fediverse.

I am also using wefef and was an Apollo user. I have an overall positive experience with Lemmy+wefwef.

It feels buggy when scrolling and switching between panes (post,search, etc) but I can live with that since I know it’s a work in progress.

Like one of the top posts today (the meme with Patrick and his rock). “It’s ok Lemmy. You can go when you want.”

Yeah wefwef is a near perfect recreation (atleast for all the things I used to do personally), with only occasional freezes when scrolling.

It could probably use a name change to be more marketable though too.

I'm loving the fediverse. I have to thank Reddit to make me discovering it!

It's because of Sync that I ended up here. I had never heard of Lemmy before Reddit was waging its war against third-party developers.

I like that I have yet to encounter the N-word unlike some other "reddit alternatives"

Its been one day without Reddit

It's been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, "I'm angry."

Is Lemmy.World a bit laggy for everyone else?

I wonder is it on my end or is it because of the new traffic it's getting?

So far I've only tried Connect for Lemmy and it works well so far. A little slow and occasionally has issues logging in, but it's getting the job done.
I'm really hoping that Sync works (when it's ready) every bit as well for Lemmy as it did for Reddit though, because no other app even came close.

I've also been trying to limit my Reddit use on desktop just out of principle.

I've been using the connect app as well and I'm waiting for sync for lemmy, on a side note have you figured a way to see new posts on top like on Reddit, when I set the post sort to hot I still see the same posts, and there no feature yet to hide seen posts. What's your experience been like?

It's tough, I'll be honest. I can't completely wrap my head around lemmy, I'm confused about seeing communities I never subrscibed to (and some I wish I didn't have to see), and can't fully understand how it works. It also just.. doesn't have the same things I used to follow, or at least I can't get them to show up. I'm struggling, and honestly don't know what to do with all that empty time. I guess it really was an addiction.

This was shared with me my first day & really helped a lot!

Also, one of the first things I noticed when I created my account & searching for communities was that you can actually block a community. If you didn't want to see it, is all. I just thought that was pretty awesome considering how many times I wanted to on Reddit but couldn't.

I have been trying Jerboa. No real complaints about the app, I just want to see the more niche spaces get more activity

I've been using Jerboa as well and I find it crashes quite a bit. When I hit back, or the back arrow it'll just shut down. I'll give it a fair shot, tho.

been working pretty well for me so far. Installed both jerboa and liftoff, but I prefer jerboa's ui better so far

I'll second Connect for Lemmy. Jerboa was ok, but Connect has been a better experience so far.

Same, i'm on Connect for Lemmy now. I've heard about wefwef but I'm not sure what exactly the deal is or how to set it up.

You just go to wefwef.app

Easiest set up of 'em all lol

Actually deleted it a long time ago. Was on r/combatfootage and dropped some dark humor joke (together with literally everyone commenting), got banned due to "promoting violence".

Figured out soon Reddit wasn't anymore for me and if I wanted to be banned for every small shit possible I would be better at Twitter.

15 year club on reddit. I've parted a few weeks ago and not coming back.

I hope lemmy gets good and better content.

14 year club. Also not going back to mobile browsing Reddit. I was a baconreader user for more than a decade. RES and old.reddit seems unaffected so far but Connect for Lemmy is working well. Happy to see some traction here.

Wiped my 13 year account a few days ago and haven't gone back to Reddit since RIF died. I'm mostly just waiting for one of the apps (Sync or Boost for Lemmy) to come out to do a full replacement; for now I'm just mobile browsing here.

Wefwef is incredible. I've never seen a web app that's even half as technically impressive, and it gets 2-3 major updates a day. Huge hats off to the devs.

using connect rn, it's pretty good looking but a bit buggy, i guess i'm waiting for updates!

Yeah same, but I was having the login issues on the site on mobile, just could not log in. Using Connect on Android and I can finally interact with you fine folks! ~~ Good Vibes ~~

I’ve been enjoying Memmy and Thunder. Tried it out for the first time yesterday and Wefwef is pretty damn close to Apollo. Personally, I’m excited for Artemis, which like Apollo was, is aiming to be a similarly smooth and robust standalone iOS app.

There's gonna be more 3rd party apps for Lemmy than there ever were for Reddit. Edit: And more open source, so you can contribute (or learn from it) too.

I am using Connect and wefwef. So far doing great.

My community has not moved to Lemmy so kinda lost here. I will just check around and see what sticks because I refuse to contribute to that fuckspez site.

This is what bugs me. When the personalities a sub is built around stays on Reddit despite supporting the protests. Like game subs - if the Devs are there, the players will post there. Supporting the protests in name, but not joining a community on the current best alternative....

Just remember that these people will only go to whatever platform gives them the most attention. If Reddit died like Digg and some other platform took off they'd just migrate there, whether it ends up being Lemmy or anything else.

It feels so weird without my easy access to niche porn. Like I can get porn anywhere, but some of that niche stuff, it's hard to find that stuff again.

Have you browsed the lemmynsfw.com communities?

Porn May do better on Lemmy than Reddit in the long run. Advertisers don’t like porn.

Edit: you may need to logged in to that instance to see the communities? Lemmy explorer helps NSFW communities

Yeah, but they're really weirdly restrictive about fictional porn.

If you’re talking about loli, that was banned on Reddit too.

More like gore/dubcon stuff. Plenty of gore subs, and theres more dubcon than you can shake a stick at. And the niche stuff still isn't there.