Guess I’ll piggy-back; This is my first post/comment here as well. I came from Apollo (long time subscriber & beta tester). I think the grass will be greener… bring on the refugees and Boost for Lemmy (Maybe one day Apollo? One can dream)!
I came over when the blackout started and it already feels more like home than Reddit has in years. Reddit slowly got more and more toxic/up its own ass as time went on….. like do you remember the episode of South Park where Kyle’s family moves to San Francisco? It was the Prius episode…. All the folks in San Fran sat around all day getting high and sniffing their own farts. That’s how Reddit has felt recently.
This change has been a long time coming I think, fuckin spez just threw some gas on a fire to try and make a quick buck.
You're all the technology-savvy intelligent ones who figured out Lemmy right away, months ago. I was trying to get into Lemmy even before July 1st but finally figured it out today November 10th! I finally got into Lemmy today. It was nearly as difficult as applying & repeatedly being rejected for competitive employment somewhere. sheesh.
I came from RiF. I was shocked that reddit even went through with the block. Oh well, onto bigger and better things. Reddit can be a footnote in history.
Speaking of traffic, if I were interested in running my own federate, what can I expect in terms of loading and where is the content actually stored, my single instance or distributed? I see the reqs. on RAM and CPU utilization but I'm actually more curious about usage data.
It depends on many parameters. Data from your users is stored locally. But then you have federation: every time one of your users subscribes to a community of another instance, your instance will cache it locally. You can manage how much cache it uses, but the cache is there of a reason.
Hah, me right now when I should've been asleep long ago. I tried to open RIF as usual, realized it really happened, and then spent the last hour or two trying to understand this site and make an account and whatnot. I was only partially successful on the former, but at least I made it here!
I used Relay for Reddit for over 10 years. I just opened it to find it still working. Apparently the Dev is working out a pricing model with Reddit and it is continuing to work. I wish him the best of luck but sadly I'm not goning to be paying.
Was on Apollo when it went dark, thought it was going to be a few more hours and apparently so did Christian but they killed access before he could revoke the key. Fuck reddit/u/spez
Oh for sure! I looked up how to nuke my Reddit account using Power Delete Suite and then created a bookmark on my iOS homepage for wefwef.app . Was even able to integrate my subreddits.
Second ever comment here. I watched Apollo shut down live, went to sleep and then immediately tried opening it up again after waking up, out of habit - girlfriends still asleep and I got so used to browsing Reddit for a bit before we get up on weekends, it has become muscle memory.
Using Wefwef currently and it’s nice, awesome work especially for a web app.
Crazy that looking right past that beautiful blue icon to tap on a Lemmy browser instead. Reddit was amazing for quite a while, time to pass the torch.
We used to struggle without our beloved pre built subreddits!
We had to pray to our instance develop lords with praise for giving us space!
Fr fr tho this experience is historical and I'm learning just as much as you! I learn if there's a community missing that you used to frequent, make it yourself!
Haha, guilty. I went to mindlessly pull up RIF at about 7 pm CT and it wasn't loading comments, then I went oh, right, UTC it's midnight. And now two hours later here I am on lemmy
Same here, I just got back from spending a day at the museum with my nephew, and after getting home I tried loading up RIF. Got the "429" and just sighed before looking up a mobile lemmy app.
I just joined after Apollo stopped working. I’ve been over at squabbles since the black out. No idea how this place works. Excited to dig in and figure it out though!
If you aren’t sold on the interface then check out wefwef.app. No affiliation - just spreading the gospel. It feels like Reddit on Apollo, but here instead.
Which bit are you struggling with? Would be useful to know how it's looking from a newbie perspective so we can make our explanations more effective. Also, welcome! 😄
I unironically like the default web UI. It's like a modernized old reddit. Also installed the PWA. I'd try wefwef, but its' instance selector doesn't even have the instance whose meta community we're currently discussing it in :(
And reddit still has a long way down. Look at Facebook, it never died, it just lost most young users and it grew stale with conspiracy theories, blind hatred and fake news.
It's the walmart-ification of social media. They're self sustaining because of their size, but that's not enough to make them an enjoyable experience. Just corporate, sterile, and lots of bored people.
I think I've figured everything out, except how to link to posts across servers. That still drives me mad. Some of the apps (like Connect for Lemmy) are doing URL rewriting, but I can't assume that's happening for everyone.
Same for me. Woke up, launched Sync and got the message that it's not working anymore now and will work with Lemmy later. Immediately created an account here 👍
Fellow Sync refugee here. So sad to see it go. I feel for all the devs that just got shafted. The only good takeaway is that we're here now and hopefully reddit will suffer for it.
We'll have a ton of high quality options soon. Lots of the Reddit app devs are working on Lemmy apps. I wouldn't be surprised if almost all the ui code can be reused
Yeah, I really wish at least one of the major third party Reddit apps was able to launch their Lemmy version today, bit of course I understand it takes time
Just tried installing Wefwef, and the first thing that hits me, is the lack of dark mode under appearance settings. Am I blind, or is that not a thing in Wefwef?
EDIT:
Liftoff feels rather nice, the menus need a little getting used to (and that big obnoxious '+' in the middle of everything), but overall it seems like a nice experience.
Not sure if any of these are better than Connect, but I'll keep them all installed and keep using them in shifts, to see which one feels better.
EDIT: 2 weeks later I've switched full-time to Liftoff.
Connect looks nice and is fast, but it's really buggy too. But early days. In a month or two we should have a few more good options. Really looking forward to some great Reddit apps coming to Lemmy.
Set feed to All. Scroll. See interesting topic you want to see more, subscribe to community. Interested in specific topic? Search for community in communities page. Once you gather enough subscriptions, set feed to subscribed. Scroll.
I've been here for a bit more than a week now and my biggest advice and is to take it as it is. Take a deep breath, accept that this is Lemmy and not something else, and that you're feeling it out. This is not relearning a bike, this is getting in a peddle boat for the first time. Similar, yes, but also it's own thing.
Yeah it's different, you'll burn in pretty quick though, just have to get used stuff being spread across a bunch of instances. It feels pretty natural after using it a while. The designers try to make it easy. It's kind of like email where each community has two parts to its name.
ok, so i have been here for like a whole hour now so i'm a pro! Jk I still don't get a lot of it but I did find this cool map that shows you large communities! https://lemmymap.feddit.de/
Basically think of discord servers that host subreddits. Instead of r/, the new r/ includes the domain name, kinda like a discord server. The new r/ is !subredditName@ServerName
So if you wanted to search for say, r/furry, you'd type [email protected].
Furry is the subreddit, pawb.social is where it is hosted. Over time lemmy will improve and servers will coalesce subreddits like planets around newly formed stars.
Yeah, used reddit through Rif for ages. The lemmy connect app thing is just familiar enough for all the unfamiliar bits to stick out. Looking forward to learning though.
Legit, it's better here despite the rough edges of an early stage of development. The very thing that makes there be a learning curve filters out the most annoying users, and the culture is fairly anti-asshole overall, so there's less toxicity overall. Not saying it's perfect, no human endeavor can be. But it's got the better aspects of reddit with a reduction in the worst parts.
It's getting better fast, the 0.18.1 Lemmy update coming up is going to be a huge improvement for desktop browser (I'm on an instance running the release candidate and it's brilliant). That should trickle down to better mobile performance as well.
It was weird using Reddit Is Fun like I always do then it just suddenly stopped.
I can't create a community. I click the button and nothing happens. Any idea why? I'm trying to recreate a community from Reddit that really helped me when I was in a dark place.
Hey, I would like to debug this community creation issue, but I haven't been able to reproduce this. Can you walk me through the exact steps that you're taking? What text are you inputting into the creation form?
I never used Apollo so can only go on anecdotal evidence but I've heard from a few people that WefWef is the most "Apollo-like" way to browse Lemmy atm.
no more baconreader. trying out different Android apps for Lemmy. so far I'm liking "connect". curious though... can I add my mastodon account to my Lemmy feed? #stupidquestion ?
You can search and find Mastodon accounts from here, bit it doesn't seem to actually pull in posts and there's no way to follow anything afaik. You can follow Lemmy communities (and post to them) from Mastodon, but the interface isn't great and it's kinda spammy.
Technically everything talks to everything else, it's just a question of implementation of features and a decent UI for seeing content from other software that may be in different formats. Exciting to see where that aspect of the Fediverse ends up!
Fwiw, I was a long time slide user before at some point I switched to Boost, as it was similar but a little sleeker in my opinion. And the Boost developer has announced a Lemmy-Version is coming, so I'm waiting for that now!
Not who you replied to, but I’m using wefwef! It’s got the occasional bugs (like right now my on screen keyboard won’t come up so I’m having to type this is to my notes app and then copy and paste the response here, but yesterday I wasn’t having any issues. Seems like the dev is pushing updates quickly. Looking forward to Slide for Lemmy!
I never used a reddit ap, nor have I moderated, but I've watched the happenings and been incredulous at Huffman's (and subsequently Reddit's) behavior.
Had 200k+ karma on my main account and 30k+ on several other accounts (adult account, etc.). I don't think Huffman or Reddit know what they're doing. Anyway, hello Lemmy!!!
I was interested to see what the rush was going to be like when Reddit mobile apps shut down. Looks like it might be pretty significant. Is this bigger than the blackout rush?
Lemmy only counts activity as commenting or posting. Unlike Reddit which counted any eyeball on a post as active. However, this is a traffic graph from the server, not from Lemmy itself.
I just joined today and could use some assistance finding communities that I'd fit into. I'm into Cybersecurity and all matters of computing. If anyone has a suggestion please reply and thanks for having me :)
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
This is a good start in search for communities. You can enter your home instance(in your case lemmy.ca) by clicking on the house symbol at the top right and then search for communities like "security".
When you click on one, it'll automatically lead you to the adress based on your home instance and you can immediately subscribe to them form there. https://lemmy.ca/c/[email protected] could be of interest for example
Top of the page, click “communities’ and either scroll or search and subscribe as you go. Today is Day One for me and working on building my Lemmy experience to be like my old R***** experience.
One way or another, we’ll all get through this and make this our new home.
I'm just glad I found a server that allowed me to register. Been trying for weeks. Lemmy.ml is closed for registration. Lemmy.world just spins when you hit the register button. Another instance just said my registration was pending.
I'm on wefwef on Android and I can just hold down on the image and the context menu has both download and copy. I don't have an iPhone to test if it's the same though
i don't know about ios but some client allow you to copy image url, just copy image url and paste in browser long press on image and click save/download. If client not provide image url then copy post url and open it in browser then follow same steps from long press on image
Please help, everyone in this community won't stop hitting me and no one will tell me where the refreshments are! I just wanted to find some amusing anecdotes for casual conversations!
Yup. I already used connect for lemmy for a few days. Today was the day it took bacon reader's spot on my home screen. Still going to check out other apps, but this is pretty cool already.
Yeah there's a checkbox for it under profile settings. There's a ton of great communities, I've subscribed to around 40. Once you get a good set of communities can just set your default to "Subscribed" in profile settings. That will be your front page. You don't really want to use "Local" because it may not be very active. "All" has a lot of stuff in it you may not want to see. There's a few communities where I don't ever want to see their content. See lemmyverse.net for community info. There's a lot of good communities on kbin as well (you can access those from Lemmy and vice versa).
I want to create a community for my local city but when I click the button after entering the name, description, logo, etc. Nothing happens. Do I need to do something first?
Hey! Unfortunately, the errors on community creation are not currently properly displayed in the frontend. What name are you trying to create the community with?
The most common reason for failure is simply the community name already being in use.
Make sure you have a language selected, that's been catching up a lot of people. Otherwise my best guess is it might just be bogged down by new users and other people creating new communities.
That's your best bet at the moment. Liftoff was another decent option but latest update doesn't see the lemm.ee instance for some reason. Things will get better on the app front in a month or 2 when Boost and Sync go live.
Ok, so I hope this isn’t the 15 millionth time this is asked, but I just came from Apollo and want to know where can I find a good resource to understand how the fediverse works?
So sad to see so many of the 3rd party apps i used throughout the years die. RiF, Sync, Baconreader, and my latest for the past couple years Apollo. But have to say, Lemmy and WefWef are definitely scratching the itch. Glad to be here!
"Migrants" is fine. "Refugees" makes light of people in our community who are actually suffering the extreme hardship of being forced from their home with nothing.
If you cave everytime someone gets offended, you won't be able to write anything. Ignore people like that that are purposefully misconstruing your intentions just to make themselves feel better about their boring lives.
Jesus fucking Christ chill out. Shit like this will just turn people away. Get off your high horse and understand that nobody is making light of anyone's situation by using that term. So annoying.