I landed here after RIF stopped working on my device and followed RIF link. This will be my new place to find content and see aggregation. Here it is to the end of reddit that starts today! 🍻
Hi everybody. Make sure to actually start posting and commenting in other communities. I've seen so many posts about coming here from Reddit which is fine. But we can't keep posting about only that.
This right here. As much as I’ve been enjoying Lemmy, it’s also been hard to go strictly-Lemmy, because the active users currently here aren’t quite as deliciously trashy as some of the subreddits. Like, yeah, I’m a developer, yeah I’m a nerd, but you know what? I like makeup tutorials and talking crap about the Teen Mom franchise. I could descend to deep diving in all my guilty pleasures on Reddit, and it’s crickets over here in comparison.
So…I’m trying. But it’ll only be as successful as the content we generate.
Give it time. I remember back in 2007, Reddit was rough around the edges and didn't have the billion users it has now. It will take time. Slowly but surely, unique communities will emerge.
I've seen content explode and I only joined and started having a look yesterday the instant RIF died. At first it was broken as shit, and there wasn't much to look at. This morning, my front page pretty much resembles my front page on Reddit, except the numbers (points and comment counts) are smaller.
All in all, things are looking good and I feel like in probably a month or less, this place will start to feel like home.
I feel you. But frfr, I post and comment about stuff that's going on around me. Rn, r site imploding is what's happening. I posted there about other stuff, when other stuff is happening from now on I'm posting about it here.
I've heard a lot of people share the same sentiment - it's actually a good thing that we don't have access to reddit apps now. It was too addictive, took up too much of our time, and now we get to try new things.
I keep seeing this addiction angle from a lot of people and I can't help but laugh because, you're all here, just replacing one addiction with another.
Same and I agree that reddit pushing off all 3rd party apps was a bad decision. I keep automatically opening the app before remembering it's not going to work. Gonna take some time to get used to just using lemmy
Just made my account here. Rest in power RIF! No RIF no reddit for me. Atm problems to log in on desktop. Thoughts and prayers for the lemmy servers :D
Same, no RIF no reddit, the one only & best for 9+ yrs. Might lurk old.reddit some, but seriously ready to turn a new leaf where my interests aren't sold as potential ad-clickers
Exactly. I pretty much exclusively used RIF for the past 11 years. I might still check old.reddit for local news and maybe subredditdrama to see how reddit's quality is declining, but I will find somewhere else for everything else I used reddit for.
I suggest giving wefwef a try. It's a web app and it seems really solid. I came here from Apollo, but used rif prior to that and this app seems really nice.
You'll get it in no time. The best way I've seen it described is email. You can have outlook. I can have Juno. Our pal can have aol. But we can all still talk to each other and see the same emails just as tho we all had the same email provider. Same thing here with instances. They're each like an individual Reddit but we can all see them (for the most part, some have been blocked by others, etc.) And comment in then from our own instances.
The creator of sync for reddit is creating a similar app for lemmy, you can sign up for any updates on the sync community here. I plan on downloading that when it comes out.
Edit: I just downloaded connected for lemmy on the Google play store, working great so far!
I'm on the Connect train right now as well and so far it's not bad. I'm having fun finding new spaces to go, feels like Reddit thirteen years ago when I first joined. More discussion based, frontpage of the lemmy version of r/all isn't plagued by TikTok videos.
Seriously, I'm legit impressed; there's enough here right already to make the transition work. I'll miss BORU, but losing my AITA habit is probably a win when you're at the point of thinking human extinction may have some good ideas there.
Glad to hear it's not just me experiencing that. There's a lot of bugs they need to iron out. But I'm looking forward to seeing lemmy and the whole threadiverse thing grow.
I'm using the wefwef.app for a bit today and I like it. Feels very close to RIF, yet you still are aware of the difference. One detail I like is auto-dark mode, and that comments and subsequent replies use colors to show thread height.
I am testing out Jerboa, got a similar feel but missing a few creature comforts. Seems the developer is really working to update and smooth the roughness in the last month so I'm optimistic long term. I'd give it a try!
Jerboa straight up won't work for me (server version issue?). I figure I'll just use the browser for a while and see what apps float to the top after the reddit exodus inspires more apps.
Summit is the closest. It feels the best to me. But it's barebones and has some hiccups. I had a comment post 14 times this morning. I have high hopes for this one though.
Connect seems the most stable and works well.
Jerboa and Liftoff both work well when they're working. But they've had some bugs and I prefer Connect to them at this point.
My recommendation is to use Connect until you get Lemmy figured out. Then try them all out.
As another RIF user who tried Jerboa, I agree with what you said. But I'm just too lazy to try something else as this is still decent enough for me.
I may look into Connect if I still feel unsatisfied with Jerboa.
Another former RiF user here. Definitely miss the experience of using that app, and Lemmy is certainly new to me. Gonna take some getting used to but it will be interesting to hopefully see this place grow!
Going from RIF to Connect for Lemmy feels like a fever dream at times. Still can't believe RIF is really gone. Anyway Lemmy seems cool, I'm liking it so far.
There are several. Unfortunately, they are all in early alpha. Lemmy wasn't quite ready for the mainstream, so the developers are scrambling a bit. That said, the improvements, even over just the last week or so, are impressive. Even if the apps are currently a bit threadbare and buggy still.
Jerboa is available on the app store. I'm personally using Thunder, though you need to download it from GitHub right now to use it. There are several more out there, but I've not played with them yet.
I think the apps will drastically improve in the next month so I'm just using a mobile browser until I see which one becomes the best. The mobile browser is already way better than reddit on a mobile browser so it's not bad.
Currently using Connect for lemmy which feels pretty close to RiF, though the Dev of Boost is making an app for android that looks just like RiF from the screenshots so that looks promising! The next couple of months will likely be a period of trial and error for a lot of folk. Exciting times.
Likewise. RIF pretty much was Reddit for me so far as regular browsing goes. I may still occasionally use old Reddit on desktop but I've heard rumours that may go as well, with the continued enshittification of Reddit.
Tried the official app after 10 years of RIF and deleted it within minutes. Downloaded Connect and have been enjoying Lemmy a lot!Looks like I've joined the great migration!
made an account here recently just to see what was up. I didn't mind reddit (albeit it was very clunky and slow, just not an ideal website for me, miss forums a lot) but lemmy seems like the best compromise. Can't wait to see where it goes from here
I've been using wefwef after Jerboa gave me the same issues. I like it but I've only had it for like 6 hours and havent played around a lot with it yet. Its UI is more like Apollo IIRC from others, but I like it well enough coming from RIF.
I made a reddit account 7 years ago and used rif most of that time. It was the only thing keeping me on reddit because I was never satisfied with the official app. With rif gone, reddit will only be used as a means of finding answers to questions I search Google with. I hope that I won't have to depend on reddit for long in that regard either.
That's like the biggest net negative - how often do you Google your question with "Reddit" tagged in there to find real people answering your question?
Biggest bummer is seeing people deleting their post history. Like, I get it, but also screwing with troubleshooting for years to come until Reddit slips into obscurity.
Coming to Lemmy benefits hugely from my jump to mastodon (fosstodon); better, Lemmy has text formatting which I really wish Mastodon and/or my server would adapt; I feel like an idiot ALLCAPSING FOR EMPHASIS.
This is kind of nice though; not just old internet, but I don't feel like I'm a slightly unwelcome guest in an established system; everything old is brand new and this time, I can help create it.
Same sentiment, going to take some work but nothing wrong if it stays a bit different. Digging the decentralization and hoping that means that it can keep a community feel for longer, even as the total number of users in the fediverse grows!
https://wefwef.app (works best if you open it in Chrome and install it as a progressive web app), it's opensource and has an official community here: [email protected]
Haven't found one like rif yet. I've been using either jerboa or connect for lemmy atm. They are functional. If anyone knows one similar to rifs layout please let me know.
Connect for lemmy is best android app from playstore. Liftoff and thunder are big contenders but you have to d/l an apk and install it. Sync is building a lemmy app but it will be a couple of weeks. Jeroba is the official but connect and the others are better.
Wefwef seems to be the best option currently, though Boost and Sync both have apps in work that are pretty highly anticipated from what I've seen so far.
Connect for lemmy is best android app from playstore. Liftoff and thunder are big contenders but you have to d/l an apk and install it. Sync is building a lemmy app but it will be a couple of weeks. Jeroba is the official but connect and the others are better.
RiF user since 2011. I'm now trying replacement apps for Lemmy. Liftoff and Jerboa look pretty good. Am trying Connect for Lemmy, but it looks super buggy right now.
Do you guys recommend any other app to browse Lemmy from the Google Play Store?
The app store apps are a little janky still or now. I just started using wefwef.app (it's a pwa. Just put wefwef.app in your browser) and it's been the best so far. It's a recreation of alien blue for iOS.
I use to like Jerboa, but after several timeouts, not differentiating between instances, and multiple errors I gave others a try. I downloaded wefwef.app and I've been liking it so far. I think I'll be using it until a polished native version comes out.