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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

This atmosphere has good vibe. Goodbye RIF, hello 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

First post! 🤸

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!

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.

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!)

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)

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 :)

Hi! Everyone I'm Coming From Apollo

Rip Rif. Hello Lemmy.

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!

Just registered. Fcuk spaz

im very happy to redditn't

Here we go.

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.

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!

My first lemmy comment

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

rest in pepperoni RIF

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.

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

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

Now hop on the probulator.

Good news everyone!

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!

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

Came from RIF. Let's gooooo

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

Woo

Thank you. Just killed my Reddit alter ego so let's vsee what this will bring us. 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?

Cheers! Here's hoping for a bright future!

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

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

Tell my old Reddit account I said…hello.

What Apps are people using? Wefwef?

Goodbye RIF, hello lemmy!

NGL

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

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

Rif user here. Just registered!

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

We're all refugees here

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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.

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.

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

Woo

Thanks for accepting another RIF refugee.

What's fediverse?

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.

a new reddit refugees sounds like dream.

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

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.

Good to be here!

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

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

Thanks for the warm welcome : )

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

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

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

Time for me to leave reddit and join the fediverse

Hellloooooooo... I like grilled cheese

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

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

Thank you for opening your doors.

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

Rip RiF

I'm scared, but also excited

My first comment on Lemmy!

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

Shut up, Terry

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 👍

Thank you all, one RiFugee here :p

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