To all the new(er) Reddit refugees!

First time posting after 9 solid years on Reddit. Thanks for the welcome

I am here now. Just signed up. Mod of /r/bicycling, /r/sanfrancisco, and a few other smaller subs. The whole thing is a mess right now, so I wanted to see if there are greener pastures here. Any tips are welcome. I literally have no idea what I'm doing.

Bathroom's that way.

I wasn't thrilled at the idea of leaving Reddit after 14 years but some things cannot be avoided. My first post here on Lemmy. Thank you for the warm welcome!

This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.

When will we get our own persistently-broken video player? That's super important for my quality use experience.

It's nice to be wanted.

Rest in peace RIF. I was honestly heartbroken. I know how sad that must sound, but goddamn, I used it daily for 6 years. It made my office hours and daily commute on the subway so much better.

I've been full-time on a Lemmy for nearly a month already and haven't really missed the other place at all. But damn, seeing that goodbye message on RIF yesterday filled me with emotions that were weird and deeply confusing.
Yeah man I used RIF as my only reddit access for 12 years. So when reddit was going hard with avatars, rewards and ads, I was immune to it. I think that's partially why 3rd parties were cut out. I did the revanced reddit app, but it still feels gross.

Wandering around, RiFless, looking for something to do on the internet.

Same here. Rest in peace RIF.
- rest in feace
Connect for Lemmy seems like a pretty good app so far, feels decently similar to RIF.

I've been here a week or two now. It's going better than Voat did for me when I last tried to leave Reddit. That was full of alt-right crazies basically, but so far here, people have been lovely.

My goodness me. This place rocks. Like the way the internet used to be. Fuck corporate greed. Fuck ads. Fuck egocentric dictatorships. And hello to The Future.

I'm going to build my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!

Thanks, so far Lemmy is looking like an interesting place with good vibes all round!

Hey, listen, Skippy. I was supposed to be unfrozen in Hollywood for the thousandth anniversary screening of jury Duty 2.

Hello rif ppl. Let's make this home! I'm still adjusting but I'll give it a shot!

They shut my BaconReader off this evening so I'm also a refugee. Also just learning the ropes!
- Im going to miss BaconReader :( at least my cholesterol will be more manageable now.

This atmosphere has good vibe. Goodbye RIF, hello Lemmy 👋

Closed Reddit account and embarking on this new adventure with lemmy.

in a weird way it’s refreshing to see a part of the internet breathe again without it needing to be a singular website for forum talk

Wait... Where am I? I'm getting withdrawal symptoms. 11 years wandering the Reddit... I'm lost, a little confused, possibly afraid.

Hey, hello community this is my first comment on Lemmy, good to see you all.

Really hope this takes off and remains open and non-commercial.

I sense a real opportunity for the Fediverse off the back of Reddit and third party apps porting across.

If the UX (user experience) is similar then it'll more than likely pull people across.

So far the communities have been extremely friendly and it is a breath of fresh air

Thank you for the welcome.

Bye bye Reddit. Hope they collapse after getting rid of 3rd party apps. Reddit is Fun was my shit. I gotta find a Lemmy equivalent so I can get off my phone's web browser.

Here from RiF! First post on Lemmy, here's to a bright future ^^

To all my Apollo refugees that are struggling with the interface. wefwef.app is basically a clone of Apollo for this site. The name is shity but it works great!

Any help for us RIF refugees?
- I'm a RIF Refugee, and I was just recommended Connect for Lemmy, and I'm using it right now. It's on the Play store.
- Decade long RiF user here and Connect functions and looks quite similarly. Only 24hrs in and I was more of a lurker so I have no clue about how it handles power user features.
- I never used RIF to be honest, but it’s a web app so easy just to type it the url and see how it feels. Made the transition a lot easier for me!
By "this site" you mean Lemmy, I take it? Kbin apps are all still in early testing stages, as far as I'm aware.
- Yeah, judging by the fact that I'm not seeing an @ on their profile, they're a lemmy.world user, like me.
android only, right?

Hiii im here from reddit but, when i tried to post the post has been being uploaded for the past 2 hours, also loading communities and upvoting has been EXTREMELY slow ;'D

btw this is a hella cool site

Redditor here. Feeling a little lost and confused. :)

Incoming user from reddit! My app got shut down. I was salty about it so I decided that I was going to find an alternative, rather than use the official app, and I found lemmy! I like the community vibe so far. I'm still figuring out how different communities and instances work together with federating. I was always more of a lurker on reddit, but I might try to become a more active commenter (for community engagement!)

Former reddit user here. I hope that this site grows and prospers and I look forward to discovering replacement communities for subreddits I've used.

Thanks! I mostly lurked on reddit for many years (as a Digg refugee), and I want to try and get out of that rut and actually contribute some content here. Wish me luck!

First post! 🤸

Lasted one day on the official reddit app. Sadly the readability of it with the massive amounts of ads and sponsored posts makes me rather not use reddit at all.

Glad lemmy seems to genuinely be an upcoming alternative!

Cautiously optimistic about the migration. Reddit had gotten pretty weird.

Nothing better than being greeted with Futurama, for the Fediverse when new episodes of Futurama drop in July! (I'm extremely excited for the new season)

Hi! Everyone I'm Coming From Apollo

rif user here
RIF refugee here
Also came from Apollo, but 20 days ago, when shit started hitting the fan.
- I made and account a week ago, dipped my toes a bit, and am delving to the deep end now o7
If you haven’t tried Memmy yet, you should keep an eye out for it. I believe it’s still a test flight app, and the beta may be limited, but it feels a lot like home.
- Been using Memmy and Thunder. I'm liking Memmy the most so far.
- Will do! I’m using Voyager which has been good for the whole five minutes I’ve been on lemmy now
- Been using Memmy and Thunder. I'm liking Memmy the most so far.
- Been using Memmy and Thunder. I'm liking Memmy the most so far.
Same! Just deleted Apollo and Reddit this morning.

Well it was a good ride at Reddit. I was using Reddit since since 2006 as a lurker. Lemmy is now my home. Hi all!

I've only been here for two weeks and already have seen major improvements. Thankful to the admins for their hard work, and glad to see the wonderful people here contributing to this platform's awesome growth. Loving it here and wishing continued success to the fediverse :)

Rip Rif. Hello Lemmy.

Just registered. Fcuk spaz

Its ok, they can't censor you here. You can call him by his true name.

I already like the vibe of this place more, at least socially. The site is a bit cumbersome but I'm willing to stick with it to see how it can get better. Plus Sync for Lemmy will be coming and then my life will be fixed.

Here we go.

im very happy to redditn't

rest in pepperoni RIF

Today was my first day on the Fediverse via Lemmy.world, and I was so happy to see a Futurama Community among the top posts right when I logged in!

I hope it's also okay to say that I just created /c/Disenchantment for my fellow fans of a slightly related show. 😄

Any Futurama fans that also like Disenchantment and our one true Queen Bean please come join!

Hello. Glad to be here. I'm not going back to reddit, they nuked Sync for Reddit and I refuse to use reddit app.

My first lemmy comment

Thanks! 11yr RiF user here and using Jerboa now, it's different but similar feeling:)

Hi, all! This is my first comment on Lemmy. I’m exited to be here!

It’s sad watching Reddit go the way of the dodo, but I’m happy to see everyone come together to give the big ole fuck you to u/spez in solidarity and migrate over when they effectively broke Apollo and the other 3pd apps

Wandered over from RIF. Like it here. I think I'll stay.

Good news everyone!

Now hop on the probulator.

I am now using the RIF app to access this site. Works well so far!

How are you doing that? Would love to know for myself.
- I also am curious
Excuse me what? How do I do this? Are the just using the built in browser?
Whaaaat! That's neat! I'll have to dig through the settings but super curious how you did that!

Came from RIF. First post here, glad to be here!

Woo

I think registration finally worked this time. Good news, everyone!

Thank you. Just killed my Reddit alter ego so let's vsee what this will bring us. Glad to be here.

Still trying to figure this Lemmy thing out. I have an account with Lemmy.World, but I can still post/view other instances if they are shared? Anyways now that RiF is gone, guess I'm done with Reddit. Glad to be here!

What's to stop a single Lemmy instance from going "this is taking too much time and money to run, I'm shutting this server down"? I guess that can apply to any service, but monetization sometimes prevents that from happening. But in this case it's all volunteer work and running a server takes resources.

What happens to all the users created under that Lemmy instance?

Came from RIF. Let's gooooo

First comment on Lemmy. Is there a ELI5 for Lemmy to help get us started? I'm using the Connect Lemmy app!

Just migrated from reddit, and I’m really excited to see Lemmy gain popularity and grow! This is about to be my next addiction.

Cheers! Here's hoping for a bright future!

We're all refugees here

Rif user here. Just registered!

What Apps are people using? Wefwef?

Good news everyone! I’ve just smelled out an entirely new parallel dimension called the fediverse

Tell my old Reddit account I said…hello.

Uninstalled the Sync app today.(RIP) Should be fun getting to know Lemmy.

NGL

it doesn't feel great, but change is never easy. but this thing is pretty damn cool

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Goodbye RIF, hello lemmy!

Testing Lemmy using my browser, what’s the best app?

a new reddit refugees sounds like dream.

Thanks for accepting another RIF refugee.

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone working to keep servers running during this influx of signups and all the helpful posts I'm seeing around explaining instances and generally how to Lemmy.

Me too! I was on reddit for about 15 years, passed through some stories there. I hope we have a lot of cool safes to open here. At the end, We should´ve come before. This is the model of internet we should encourage, but reddit was too confortable for anything else. Now is the time! The funny thing is that I neve spent money on reddit, but I already signed up for donations here.

Moved from Digg to Reddit 14 years ago. Happy to do the move again.

Good to be here!

Apollo refugee here! Let’s hope this sticks because I lost all trust in Reddit.

As my first post here, I feel welcomed with the highest geek honor!

First post here!

As a former Apollo user, I’m super impressed by wefwef. Does anyone know what’s in store for its development? I’d love to see a native iOS app.

Woo

RiF user here, so far so good. Thanks for the warm welcone.

Thanks for the warm welcome : )

RIF user here also, hope to stay here - testing lemmy apps now

What's fediverse?

It's the collection of various softwares/sites/platforms that are all able to interact due to operating on the same underlying technology.

Lemmy is part of the Fediverse. Mastodon is also and users there can follow and post in Lemmy communities despite being a totally different thing. Kbin is another Reddit-like, it and Lemmy coexist pretty seamlessly.

And there are so so many more. Fediverse alternatives to FB, Insta, YT, Linktree, etc etc etc.

You'll also hear "Threadiverse" which is what people have taken to calling that part of the Fediverse that focuses on forum thread type discussions (ie Lemmy and Kbin mainly).
- Thanks for the explanation. How connected are the platforms? As a new Lemmy user, if I search for a particular community to join, am I seeing the same content that someone from Mastodon would? Or is it more that Lemmy is capable of reading Mastodon content but we're not sharing the same content by default?
  
  I'm finding it a little hard to find the words to even ask this question haha, I'm still a little confused. This all looks nice so far though!
This is a good wrap up https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/
- That was really helpful, thanks!
It's the universe of all the different subs/sites you see under All, connected together.

Happy to try it though I haven't found a cell app I much like yet.

I think the biggest challenge is going to be transplanting the knowledge. There are so many tutorials and walkthroughs that are on reddit.

It's why what was working best was the Mods making everything private.

Lemmy take us to the promise land!

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

First post on Lemmy! So long Reddit, looking forward to Sync for Lemmy to be developed. By the way, where's the bathroom?

I love how massive this community is getting

No more centralised social media. I really hope more of us make the switch. Lemmy feels like it could become a really special place.

BaconReader user here. Liking Lemmy so far. Thanks for the welcome! :)

Just signed up a few hours ago and trying to get a feel of the place. Looking good so far :)

Damn over 3k upvotes..activity is going up!. Let's get this train going! Welcome! :)

10+ year Reddit refugee looking for a new home. Lemmy looks slightly difficult to navigate but hopefully this becomes the new face of the internet

Hellloooooooo... I like grilled cheese

My first comment on Lemmy!

BaconReader user here. Liking Lemmy so far. Thanks for the welcome! :)

Shut up, Terry

Hi Lemmies, thanks! First post. Excited to see how this turns out!

First comment on Lemmy... Been a lurker on Reddit for years who's recently become more active... Looking forward to contributing more on Lemmy! Network errors galore right now, but that's a good thing right? Everybody coming over from Reddit in droves, I would imagine... Let's f'in goooooo!

Edit: this comment gave me all sorts of problems while attempting to post, sorry for the duplicate versions... but I imagine this will calm down soon and all will be right as rain in no time 👍

Hello new friends! I'm a Reddit expat, looking for a new source of cat videos.

Thank you for opening your doors.

Good to be here. Things are moving fast with all these apps. This is all very exciting and promising.

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

Time for me to leave reddit and join the fediverse

Thank you all, one RiFugee here :p

Another refugee here. I hope i post more here than i did there

Rip RiF

i too am a RIF refugee. 11 years and im not going back.

I had to move the Connect app to the spot RiF used to be in because I didn't realise until it was gone that muscle memory would take me there pretty much every time I was scrolling my phone. I'll miss it a lot, but I have hope that in time a better alternative/Lemmy will take over. They don't deserve to succeed at this point.

I'm scared, but also excited

I am obviously confused and aroused.

Thank you for the warm welcome. Any tips and tricks for us Reddit refugees?

Hello. First post on Lemmy - y'all seem nice. Missing Sync for Reddit but I will move on. Thank you for having us

Glad to be living reddit behind. RIP.

Thank you. Looking forward to the new Futurama episodes too.

Hello world

Hello👋

Ahoy future worlds of magic and mystery!

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

Sanctuary, please.

Thank you for the kind greeting. I really am a refugee in more ways than just leaving Reddit.

Hello :)

Thank you for having me! ♥️

So glad you're here! :)

The world of tomorrow seems fun ! I really like it here

Yeah yeah, now where's my career chip?

Hello fellow previously rdt

well, this is my first comment on lemmy!

Yo yo. Happy to be here. Thanks for the warm welcome.

After 12 years on reddit (most of those on Apollo), it’s great to be here! Thank’s for the warm welcome.

Was part of the great Digg migration, and yet again another platform got greedy...

It begins 🗿

thank you for the welcome!

12yr Reddit account being abandoned cause of all the fuckery. Happy to be a Lemming now

I made it in! Excited for something new after 10 years on Reddit

Of all the communities here, this is one of them.

I wonder if there will be a lemmy is fun?

Hopefully. TalkLittle is here, but I believe they are developing an app for tilde instead.
Try Connect for Lemmy, it seems to be close enought to RIF for now
- That is currently what I am using. Been getting used to a new app and navigation of the fediverse.

WELCOME ALLLLL!

Thanks man. This looks fine.

It begins (⁠｡⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠｡⁠)

Im interested to see how these communities and apps grow with all of the new users.

Finally made an account. Super excited. Reddit immediately started to just feel like it was in a decline, something about logging onto it felt off

This is great to see hopefully more redditors move over. I'm still figuring things out, any suggestions for a good mobile app for Lemmy?

Joined just now after RIF stopped working in the UK... RIP RIF

Hello Lemmy

Nice that that's the first thing I see here

Yes hi I'm here for the checks notes upvotes.

Hmmmmmm

Thanks for welcome! Although I am still a bit sceptic whether this platform can grow. we will see...

I'm very excited to start fresh. ☺️🫶

I'm 40% happy

It begins 🗿

I remember surfing chans back in the day. I've missed it, but life gets busy. I hated reddit for a long told, but it had so much good information on there and such good third party apps that I caved and it became my favorite thing to do while shitting. I just found out about Lemmy and it feels like I slipped on an old broken-in glove. Thanks for the welcome. After the toxicity of reddit, this is nice.

Used Reddit for 16 years. Also a little confused. But stoked!

I am still feeling a little lost but fuck spez.

I'm reminded of when Voat was gonna replace Reddit. I'm still skeptical we'll get a lot more users migrating since things over there seem to have stabilized. But this is an exciting time for Lemmy to try some new things and fix what was broken with reddit.

Thanks! after many years on reddit, here I am, hello all.

give a checkout to lemdro.id, new instance from the collective mod team of several large technical subreddits!

After 12 years on reddit (most of those on Apollo) it’s nice to be here and thank’s for the warm welcome!

I still don’t understand any of this or what I’m doing. Wish me luck!

Happy to be here!!! Everyone has been so welcoming

activity pub - cutting-edge 2013 technology 👽

Don't worry ya'll we 'll ruin it for ya

Commenting to count. Also, hi ^^

Hello everyone!

Hello

Thanks, I hope to find my way around and behave myself.

Haven't you ever heard of a little thing called 'showmanship'

Hey, fellow refugee here. Sometimes I get a language not allowed error when posting? Also do communities with the same name on different servers share comments? For example, PatientsGamers

Heelo there

Shut up Terry.

Thanks for the warm welcome! I used Apollo since 2018 and I was disappointed with how reddit treated Christian.

What a breath of fresh air!

Good News everyone! I do feel welcomed into the future, this is my first post. I finally got signed up after I found wefwef and knew it was the missing link and now I could enjoy the fediverse.

I didn’t even try going to the official app. Oh my no.

I was told there would be an omelet bar for Reddit refugees.

Howdy folks!

Hi there everyone!

neat

Been here for 30 mins, seems nice 🙂

Wanted to post as part of the great migration.

Loooooong time lurker, first time posting - I’m stoked to have found such a great alternative so soon! THANK YOU to all the devs and moderators for helping make Lemmy such an inviting and welcoming place to be. I’m looking forward to being a more active participant this go’round. Glad to be here!

Subscribed.

woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop

Great to be here!

Hi, first comment on Lemmy/fediverse after 13 years on reddit, it looks good so far. Thanks for the welcome!

Hello all!

🍻 Cheers!

I enjoyed rif for over ten years. Sad it is gone, but excited for the next chapter. Feeling very welcomed by lemmy veterans.

Had almost a day with lemmy. Now I'm starting to get the basics sorted this looks like it will be a fun place.

Already seeing fermiliar communities which is sweet

Just landed from reddit. Excited to be a part of the early adapters of fediverse!

Is there a currency equivalent to Reddit gold here? What’s the point of this if I can’t say “Thanks for the gold kind stranger” ???

frankly I hesitated a lot between lemmy and squabbles... finally I migrated to the 2!

This is great. Really enjoying the vibe so far and figuring stuff out. Like the tech around fediverse and excited to see where it goes.

Thank you. Just killed my Reddit alter ego so let's vsee what this will bring us. Glad to be here.

Nothing better than being greeted with Futurama, for the Fediverse when new episodes of Futurama drop in July! (I'm extremely excited for the new season)

Thanks! I had been checking this place out recently, but then I thought that the night Apollo & friends go dark would be the perfect time to register! Hopefully it’s part of a huge spike in users that makes the news.

Why do you always have to say it that way?

I never watched Futurama, but it's appropriate. I read the cliff notes.

Let's hope this takes off!

New Lemming here.

Here's to hoping she's built like a steakhouse, and handles like a bistro!

It's nice to be able to use the phone web browser and not be nagged...

Today!

We could've done this before, but better late than never

Welcome everyone. Let's hope for a better future here on lemmy

Thank you for making this!

I’m sure they’ll have a cure for that in the future.

I'm here!

Im curious to see how all these communities and apps grow going forward.

Thanks, I was using using Boost for reddit. Boost for lemmy is coming so until then using wefwef. Still learning about the fediverse. Really liking it here.

Hiiiii, thanks for the welcome!

Spiderman: Into The Fediverse

Hello World!

🗿 thank you

We are all out here in the ether together brothers!

Thanks! Glad to be here.

So many people joined, which is amazing

Honestly seeing all the corpos ruining the platforms that are what they are because millions of people contributed to them. Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, etc. give so much power to their owners yet they don't realize it past their next dollar. I think internet should have always been a fediverse instead of what it has become.

Reddit was fun but the admins are insane, I reported an account that was posting CP and they banned me whilst claiming they took action against that account yet it is still up. Classy.

Hello world!

Thank you @[email protected]

Im hoping to be here for the long run....

🗿 thank you

Welcome!

Happy to be here!

Continues to eat cheesy broccoli

Where is my can of beans?

Im interested to see how these communities and apps grow with all of the new users.

greetings! 🖖

🗿 thank you

Cant see comments, fixed it! It was an adblocker

After a year I went back and tried using Reddit again, wow, what an absolute shit show. That site got noticeably worse.

I had an account there for 8 years with no issue, and this time around I was perma banned after a week cause the mods have really gone off the deep end.

Most threads are filled with Ai comments that all say basically the same thing, and if your comment differs you're banned. You can't have a discussion there anymore

Glory to forwardlooker!

Glory to forwardgoer!

Our path is from present

To stellar future.

- Glory to forwardlooker(Слава вперёдсмотрящему)

Edit: fix translation