Its been one day without Reddit
Its been one day without Reddit
& 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?
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 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
Another thing to consider is that Lemmy is basically early access. Very rough around the edges and one of those ways is federation. Users from other instances might not see your comment, or might not see it immediately. The good news is, it will only get better and more active.
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 sort by new mostly and if I find something interesting I write a comment trying to startup some conversations. The more people do this, the faster the community will grow.
I was a somewhat massive lurker on reddit, I didn't bother engaging much because I knew 60% of the time the reply would be snippy, even if my post wouldn't be remotely combative. So over the years I just stopped bothering mostly.
My inbox has kicked off more here in the last week than probably the last 365 days on reddit. It's really wholesome, for lack of a better term.
All it takes if you commenting, to fire off more comments just like now. It's good shit!
There is definitely a lower quantity of posts and many of those posts don't get tons of comments, but the posts and the comments they do get are of a much higher quality.
The bigger communities are reaching a kind of critical mass but getting there for the niche ones, particularly for those with no overarching direction to move to Lemmy, will be slow.
I feel like over time Lemmy as a platform will manage to make it easier to link decentralized communities together (fingers crossed). Until then it's slow and steady.
Even i was a lurker on reddit. But here, I'm contributing more actively.
"Be the change you want see in the world" applies quite well here.
Also for app, I've been using memmy and it's pretty good.
It reminds me of Reddit a decade ago when most posts in the specialized subs didn't have much interaction either. But the interaction was deeper and more meaningful and did not consist of everybody trying to crank out witty one-liners to whatever topic.
The other thing I try to consider: What was okay maybe a couple of years ago now feels weirdly "empty" because our brains have been Pavloved into having a deluge of dopamine-inducing content washing over us all the time....
Pet peeve of mine was the top comment being a low hanging fruit joke.. Every time. Quite excited for conversation to be more meaningful.
Yep, when I first joined reddit the amount of upvotes a post on frontpage is usually on the hundreds, only the most upvoted ones break to thousands.
Try to remember that a lot of engagement on reddit nowadays is bots. Even if they seem like humans. How Lemmy is now is how reddit felt back in 2008.
Comments are emptier, but I feel like they're more relevant. To comment is an actual response and discussion, not just the same joke with the expected replies on every thread.
I just checked /r/all. It's all clickbait. All tired memes, the only news is whatever is plastered on every news site anyway. Reddit was awesome when you were the first person to hear about any news. I remember telling my parents stuff, then they'd hear about it 3 days later and be in awe because i already knew so much about it. The news sites have adapted though, reddit isn't the first source of information anymore. Now its just a social site to waste time on, and it's even bad at that
Hey friend let’s talk more about this.
I hadn’t heard about wefwef until your comment.
Really excellent web app thanks for mentioning it!
I also miss more interactions in communities and comments sections, but this is just the beginning of Lemmy. It will take a while for this to become pretty active, but I'm sure it will create an awesome and loyal community.
Just testing out connect for android now, first comment. Seems slick so far. Feels like RIF a bit
Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable
I tried both but decided to go with memmy, but each are great choices.
+1 for Memmy. Started with melm, but Memmy seems more polished. The dev also seems to be listening to user input.
Memmy has way more features
That’s what I signed up with. Still taking a bit to get used to the Fediverse, but happy I’m here and super appreciative of Memmy.
They also seem to go easier on the battery than wefwef
i've tried both but i feel like memmy is way more polished and feels a lot more user friendly, and i've experienced less bugs
Using Memmy now, enjoying it so far! It has its slowness and bugs, but reminds me of Apollo in some ways.
the devs from memmy are really open to suggestions too (gotta join the discord/github) - it reminds me of Apollo in that regard
Liftoff app is my favorite at the moment. Very responsive and handle well multiple account.
For me its memmy..
Yeah so far it’s Memmy for me as well. I don’t mind wefwef or Mlem but Memmy is just doing a little more for me. There are some features in the others that I wished they would implement
Check out wefwef.app also! It's a web-based app and normally I'm not a fan of them, but it works really well! It's missing some features, but the devs seem to be constantly updating it and adding new ones. Highly recommended!
I also vouch for Liftoff. It is, so far, the closest to RIF I've been able to find for Android and has the most options for customizing how content is presented.
Tried several, liftoff is the one for me until Sync comes along. Personally the deciding factor was that gestures worked to close posts so I could scroll one handed.
I've already tried a couple of them and so far liftoff as been the most comfortable one
only just been able to sign into liftoff properly after Lemmy world upgraded to 18.1 and gotta say it's brilliant!!
Will try this also... Using Thunder right now and it gets really slow as you scroll down.
Been trying a few. Lemming is the one I'm using currently but I will try Liftoff! While I wait for Sync for Lemmy 🤙🤙
I tried to use Liftoff but it wouldn't let me add the lemm.ee server, so I can't sign in.
I'm on Liftoff and it seems okay. But is there not a way to list communities, or am I just overlooking it? I can see the feed with all communities, which I guess is r/all-like and isn't so bad because I did browse r/all and r/popular more than individual subreddits anyway. But still, I'd like to be able to see what communities effect exist.
Connect for Lemmy on android works great so far if anyone was looking for options.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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!
Can confirm it gets easier. It definitely helps to have an app replacement so you can follow your normal reading, commenting, and posting routines. I jumped a while back and had to resist the urge to go back out of habit, but now I don't even miss it.
Is it bad I feel the above feels like some 12 step program testimonial?
BaconReader will never be able to be replaced. I'm bouncing between Jerboa and wefwef for now, until I find a suitable BR replacement
Same here brother. I love that Jerboa is open source and available on F-Droid, but it acts up sometimes and only supports servers >= 0.18.0, so I've been bouncing until some more of the instances that I'm on catch up.
What drew you to BaconReader? I was a user by circumstance, really. The only real options back on the day were BR and RIF (I think Alien Blue was a thing at that time, but we all know how that turned out) and I just happened to go with BR and never switched.
I shouldn't say that. I did give Sync a shot for the last couple months before the apocalypse, and it was pretty snazzy once I got used to it. Excited to see how their Lemmy app turns out!
95% of posts that contain active discussion and more than 3 comments are about Lemmy and/or Reddit implosion. I would love to see a pivot to more engagement in other subjects. I do enjoy reading about lemmy and participating in the discussion, but would be good to see the users disperse a little bit :)
For some reason, wefwef was very buggy for me and kept throwing errors at me.
I use Memmy and I’ll probably stick with it!
Trying out Memmy here as well and enjoy a bit more than Wefwef. Feels similar to Apollo. And glad that the devs are actively listening to feedback from the alpha testers. :-)
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 :-)
Using Connect for Lemmy and loving it. I'm not that much of a social media addict, but I would check reddit using Baconreader once daily for news and politics and cat pictures. Speaking of which, the number of cat communities on here is way too low, but I also think a lot of the cat subs on Reddit were like 75% repost bots. I still enjoyed them.
Have you found an App for Lemmy that you prefer the most yet?
I'm using firefox on desktop and the UI looks awesome, no RES necessary.
One of the most impressive things to me: I've got ublock origin up and there are zero things being blocked! I'm so jaded of the years that I expect every website to have something blocked.
As a new user, I'm finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a [...subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.
Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?
The apps help slightly, but there's still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.
I feel like it's a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.
There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with 'subreddits' in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.
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!
The internet seems fresh for a fleeting moment
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.
Currently using Liftoff but can't wait for Sync to release.
Same, been enjoying Liftoff but very glad Sync is taking a crack at it, Sync was my favorite reddit app
Am using Liftoff and Jerboa. I like them both, but somehow it feels clunkier to move around, maybe I just need to get used to them/Lemmy.
Am a former RIF user and am trying to learn how to navigate here. I like this new experience though!
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 😊
Hell yeah.
Plus I’m a big replier and thorough (if I’m giving my opinions on a video game for example). Then some shlub comes in and says TLDR. Really dude.
Glad to be here, quality over quantity. Atm the activity and engagement is around the same vibe as a large forum of yester year. Love it.
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.
You might be right, oh god. Official app and nothing but complete shit heads and bots, where’s my IPO! 🤣
Liftoff seems like a good one. I honestly had so many issues with the way Reddit operates, and the experience was so horrible on many subredddits. I love the idea of a decentralized service where there can be entirely independent instance operators. It's been liberating to start over with these small forums here. Once more people join in it'll be so much better than Reddit ever could have been.
After a few days without Reddit, I don't miss it that much for daily browsing. But it'll probably still be useful to find people with the same PC issues as me and find a solution 😎
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 had been using reddit daily for about 10 years for a multitude of reasons. It was a great place to waste time, an amazing tool to get help on niche subjects and a wonderful way to learn… but recently it suffered from it’s own success and generally felt more and more of a cesspool…
I am grateful of the events that transpired, because it has forced me to find an alternative, and evolve my knowledge on different options. I had no idea what Lemmy was yesterday, nor federation or anything… I was thrust into the option of stick with something that was getting bad, or figure out how to do something new that has the potential to be even better! I’m glad I went into uncharted territory.
It’s a little bittersweet that while lemmy does not have the scope that reddit had, resulting in less of a pool to get help from… the prospect of what might become with Lemmy is more than enough to keep me away from reddit.
I'm using WefWef. It much slower than RiF but the growing pains must be absolutely massive.
I moved over here a while ago. Doing great so far, loving the community, though I'm doing a lot of lurking at the moment cause I have to keep reinstalling my app for testing.
Currently using thunder, working on contributing to the project cause I liked the early alpha so much. New updates come frequently, looks nice, functions great, cross platform.
This truthfully reminds me of the oldschool forums quite a bit right now. A smaller user base and being able to participate without being buried immediately by thousands of other posts and get some engagement is nice. Its also nice not to see the same thing on my main page in 12 different subs being reposted to karma whore.
The recent stuff was the extra little kick I needed to go somewhere else and stop scrolling infinitely.
I've been here since the blackout and I haven't touched Reddit for at least a week. It feels closer to what the web used to be when it was cool.
I'm using the web along with Jerboa.
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.
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.
I’ve been here for 7 days now. I’m not new to the fediverse but am new to Lemmy. So far I’m loving it, it’s great to finally see a viable Reddit alternative gain some traction.
Mastodon is also seeing another big surge of new accounts. Kinda feels like a (social media) revolution is afoot.
Please remember to be kind to your server admins also, they’ve a lot to cope with amidst all this excitement! Oh and donate if you can to help with growing running costs.
Lemmy is keeping me busy, and is like how Reddit should have been
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 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.
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.
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.
Wefwef is pretty nice so far and haven’t been on Reddit since Apollo stopped working
Lookin forward to seein wefwef grow
Ngl find it all a bit confusing still, however it definitely seems like the beginnings of something special
Yea, we need more streamlined inter-instance search and subscription. I’ve finally wrapped my head around the fediverse and instances, but not around the best way to find the communities I want to engage with.
It's funny all the people posting about a shared withdrawal. Reddit was a habit. I feel it. But, I'm here to fill the void with a healthier substitute. Cheers everyone, we're going to make this awesome!
Not bad, feels a little bit like going on a reddit detox, the slower speed of the different communities is kind of nice.
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've been trying Jerboa, but the constant hug of death traffic has been hard on it. It keeps logging me out, and I go back to the login menu and have to manually re-enter my info each time. Plus, the UI isn't familiar so I'm struggling to find what I'm looking for.
I switched to Liftoff, and it's much more similar to RiF. Plus I seem to get auto-re-logged in when I'm dropped. It's still apparent that we're overloading every Lemmy instance, but I find that I can navigate better despite that.
I'm slowly adding back communities, and I see that they're slowly coming over, as well.
long time lurker < 10 posts reporting in
Lemmy has been great hasn't it? It's not as big but the content feels more meaningful.
Boost was my go-to and I'm waiting for the new one for Lemmy. But jerboa has been doing the job for me so far. Especially the newer versionsB
A bit nerve racking the first days trying out the first post in Lemmy and missing a good app for mobile (being used to Apollo set the bar quite high) and then I discovered wefwef.app and now I feel like home again (don’t be afraid of the fact that it’s a web app, it’s really well done and fast and smooth, and looks like Apollo).
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
I'm using connect for lemmy and it's going good so far. I started reading more about a month ago to try to cut the addiction of reddit.
I've been reading Dracula and Frankenstein and both have been great. I'm reading dracula through Dracula daily, but doing my best to read most of it on soft cover. Frekensiten has been fantastic and I'm almost done. Couldn't recommended it more. There's no modern adaptation that does it justice.
Long story short, it sucks reddit is gone and my addiction to it is real, but lemmy and books specifically has been a good substitute
Connect for Lemmy (Android app) is pretty good so far. Lots of options. I'm glad I was able to turn off the swipe actions, as I don't like those at all. Jerboa was not great.
What I'm excitedly waiting for is Sync for Lemmy. It was the best reddit app I had ever used, and the dev is now making a Lemmy version.
I actually installed the reddit app (Android) but it really was shitty so I uninstalled it.
Welcome! I’m on Memmy for iOS myself and it’s pretty solid so far! Really need to checkout wefwef. I adore Apollo and was really sad about it, but seeing so many redditors flooding to here has softened the blow.
I've been here since June 12th, and I'm really liking it. I often sorted Reddit by rising, and this place feels like that experience: posts with fewer comments, so it seems like my comment might not get lost in the deluge.
The only thing I miss is that there were so many people in Reddit that you could post some obscure thing and there'd always be an expert on it. "I did my PhD thesis on the mating cycle of gnats, so I can explain what's going on there..."
I think this place will get there though, and there are some real advantages to a smaller population, as long as there's critical mass.
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.
Connect for Lemmy is my favorite app so far. I miss some of the really niche subs, and tried making a few here, but it's hard to transition from being a lurker to a poster and contributing member!
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.
Yea it's a little jarring at first and I didn't get it for a bit. I'm seeing it now and how it all comes together. The instances are like smaller 'Reddits' that you can have different communities or 'subreddits'. So you can have a Apple community in Lemmy.World or Lemmy.ml or other places. The cool thing is that with your one account you can access all the different places without having to make a new account
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.
there was a moment today while reading a deep thread when i completely forgot which platform i was on. i was simply enjoying the content and community.
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.
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.
This. The first few days when I came over here (the day before the blackout started) it still has been really empty.
But now more and more people switch and you can tell. The comment sections get bigger, the main page for all gets busier. Give it a month or two and it will be just like old times. Even the niche communities are popping up here and there.
This is working! I never expected I’ll ever use an app like apollo in the near future but here we are. And the community here is great too! Rooting for you Lemmy!
Learned about wefwef 30min ago and love it already. Now Lemmy is an actual alternative to Reddit for me.
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?
So far jerboa for android is really great! Gonna switch to sync for Lemmy as soon as it's out though, gonna make this place feel like home :)
Honestly, I've been staying off of reddit and all social media a lot for the past year. It's been good for me. I've been slowly getting back into a few select forums. I like Lemmy a lot more than I've like any kind of social media in a long time. I hope it's sustainable.
I’ve been using Memmy the most so far, just waiting for more content to be generated here
Honestly, it reminds me a bit of reddit pre-digg migration. I'm kind of enjoying it. Right now, I'm using connect for my mobile access. I also don't hate the separation that the federated servers are falling into. It seems like moderation might be a bit of a PITA but I don't have any experience to back that up.
I keep opening Apollo out of habit but haven’t checked reddit at all today and I’m ok with that lol
Been on lemmy.world since around 10 days and I've already noticed a significant increase in activity. Pretty exciting! I tried wefwef but for some reason scrolling doesn't work so well on my smartphone, Jerboa is great and I think I'll stick to it, for now.
I was early to leave. I’ve yet to delete my Reddit account since I honestly don’t want to put traffic there. But my account is dead. This actually is pretty nice given I was also crashing on Apollo. Dearly missed
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'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.
My first post here. Just Downloaded the app and exported my Apollo JSON file over. Hoping this site grows.
Doing great so far, servers were a bit buggy today but I think it can only get better
Never used an app for reddit, but I left to protest how spez treated people. Other than missing the science/news/covid research content, I greatly prefer Lemmy. I look forward to seeing how the Fediverse grows, but I truly hope it doesn't detract for longtime users.
As for Lemmy apps... I tried wefwef, and liked it ok, but now I'm using Jerboa and I think I will stick with it for a while.
despite having 3 Lemmy apps in rotation, it's been an excellent experience!
I found out I enjoy small active instances and communities by interest where I can take part in conversation and even start recognizing other users. Discovered "large communities" feel more like towns and that's fine. At least here I have the option on where I can lurk and post.
so long as there's nice content i feel fine. 9gag, reddit, twitter, whatever.
using Connect for Lemmy on Android, and it’s a great experience. Also using Mlem on iOS in TestFlight, and it has been good as well. I also use the browser version if the app is being flaky.
I'm on Android and the app if found that I like the most so far is Connect. For context, I was a sync for Reddit user and I'm already pre-registered for sync for Lemmy and Connect has UI quite similar to what I'm used to
I'm having a pretty good time here but I don't really like the desktop interface, I had to write some custom CSS to improve it :p
Migrated from Apollo, wepwep is my home while testing the other iOS apps. Feels good over here!
I haven’t been on Reddit at all today. I have, admittedly, opened Apollo and looked at the app icons several times. Whenever I do that I just go back to Lemmy lol
Created my Lemmy account about an hour ago after seeing feedback regarding the wefwef app. So far I am not disappointed in its execution. I have already joined a few communities that reflect what I was doing on Reddit and I am hopefully optimistic it continues to grow in a positive manner. I do agree with another comment that the engagement should be more meaningful with fewer users.
A lot of the content on here reminds me of old Reddit, I'm enjoying it so far!
It’s not too bad. The lack of a history of posts on Lemmy makes me miss Reddit more than anything. The engagement here seems pretty good but I hope it continues to get better. It will just take time.
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.
Besides some of the outages I have experienced and getting used to the Memmy app, I am enjoying my time so far. I haven’t posted yet since I was more of a lurker on Reddit but that will change since I want to see this community succeed.
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 finally realized that 90% of the subreddits I flipped through for hours on end were an absolute waste of time. Good riddance, Reddit.
I'm on iOS and i found that making a bookmark for the website on my homescreen works pretty much just the same as a native app. Love it.
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
I have liftoff and jerboa installed. Right now I m enjoying the first the most.
I m realy enjoying lemmy as well. I feel this could be better than reddit (even after 12 years there).
Don t know if it happen to anyone esse, but I tryed using RIF today and still menaged to get posts, Don t know why, I thought it would be completly dead.
Same for RIF, but just the "all" feed without being logged.
Yeah, its the very same for me...
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
I only opened RIF out of habit about 3 times
So far I've tried Jerboa and Connect, they're obviously not feature complete yet but both are definitely serviceable.
Connect is garbage UX. Try liftoff or Thunder.
Jerboa looks nice but is still buggy.
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.
I've been using Jerboa since mid June, but I'm on Android. It was a bit slow at first and I did have those gnawing desires to go back to reddit, but I haven't done so. You really notice the time waste on that site when you aren't actively going to it anymore.
I'm using liftoff at the moment, pretty good so far. I still get compulsions to type reddit after my Google searches though to look up answers on questions I have...need to break that years-long habit
Crazy how much busier it’s gotten since I made an account this morning and since I went to work lol. Great to see it, I hope this is the first step to the internet returning to its former state
looked in my app drawer for sync several times today, but using connect right now. wefwef looks pretty solid, reminds me of sync.
I’m giving MLem a trial run and like it so far. I’m a fairly casual user.
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 do like wefwef, obviously for the UI but I’m using memmy on a daily basis.
Mostly for one reason, being able to save posts, which is something I do a lot. Now I just need to be able to categorize the saved post like on Apollo pro and that will be perfect.
Pretty damn happy really. Haven't found an app yet but I think i'll go with wefwef. This site is pretty small but that's why I like it! the overbloat of the internet just gives me headaches these days. -3-
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.
I like wefwef the best so far (though it's currently broken for me) and Memmy is a close second. :)
Wefwef for me too. The interface is pretty similar, so it didn’t take much to transition. I’m hoping things will pick up here, but so far I’m liking the new home.
I just looked up wefwef and gave it a go, but I can't figure out how to un-blur NSFW stuff, so I'll wait until that's fixed.
I can't compare it to Apollo as I'm an Android user, but I'm very excited for Boost for Lemmy! ❤️
I use less my phone, so it is good.
have been using wefwef for now -- keeping an eye out for an upgrade at some point but so far enjoying it!
I'm doing my best to transfer anything I found enjoyable on Reddit to Lemmy.World immediately. It will take some time.
I'm just using it directly from the web via Firefox for Android. It works really well and is a much better experience than any of the trainwrecks Reddit has on offer.
I have tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff and I like Liftoff the best so far. It doesn't really matter though, since I'm mostly waiting for Boost for Lemmy to release.
Is there any app that recreates Apollos ability to disable right swipes (to allow back swipes anywhere on screen), and or allows swipe to collapse comments?
I think Thunder might have a disable swipe option I'm its settings
It does but doesn’t enable swipe to navigate back from anywhere sadly. Right now the wefwef PWA seems to be the most similar (still lacks swipe from anywhere).
Trying the Android app Summit ATM. It's gonna take a lot of getting used to
Jerboa does okay for me. I still have my reddit account but unsubbed from almost everything. I am good with it.
I'm still trying it out. For now I'm using jerboa
I've been cheating a little bit and going on libreddit but still logging in to interact and help lemmy grow! Still haven't found an app I like (wefwef has been a bit buggy with refresh) but I'm sure that'll come.
Infinity refugee here. So far, Liftoff feels pretty solid, despite being in alpha still. Jerboa feels ok, but a bit slow and unfinished (I understand dev is actively working on the whole Lemmy and lemmy.ml instance, so no hard feelings for him). Waiting for Boost to give it a chance
That's awesome. It actually just looks like a completely blank post to me (using Mlem on iPhone), but I assume that's just because there's a lot of bugs left to iron out, and features to implement. Excited to see these apps after a few more months.
I fled Digg for Reddit ... I have now fled Reddit for Lemmy
Feeling like Lemmy actually puts the control in the content contributors and moderators where it should be!
And we ain’t looking back!
I'm 2 weeks in and the apps are already much better than they were then. I miss specific subs but we'll make more here. All things considered I'm happy with lemmy as a replacement.
I'm exactly two weeks in, and I LOVE it! all the reddit fiasco was exactly what I needed to wake me up out of my shitty comfort zone. landing on lemmy was really confusing and strange at first, but now I feel like I'm part of something that is developing and growing in the right direction, with all the quirks and hardship that's part of it. it's great, and the wave of people who are coming in, plus the development of apps.. it all feels really pioneering. wefwef is great and liftoff as well. everything is becoming more friendly by the hour & updates.
I’m doing just fine 💙 need to get out on the water though…
I’ve been using Memmy for a few days, and it’s done a good job at filling the Apollo-shaped hole in my heart. As for Reddit itself, the community has become so toxic in the last few days that I’m honestly glad I’m not on there anymore.
I plan on keeping Reddit bookmarked for about 2 more months, just to pop in one last time and see what has become of our once precious community. Then I'm deleting everything and never looking back.
Yep its jerboa for me
Coming from Brave to Wefwef was actually easier than I thought, so good so far!
Been on lemmy.world since around 10 days and I've already noticed a significant increase in activity. Pretty exciting! I tried wefwef but for some reason scrolling doesn't work so well on my smartphone, Jerboa is great and I think I'll stick to it, for now.
Loving it so far. The people here want to be here, want things to be better.
I'm still trying it out. For now I'm using jerboa
Long live Lemmy!
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.
I have tried the web site, liftoff, wefwef and Jerboa. I like them in the order of, Jerboa, wefwef, web, liftoff.
The web used to be my favourite but after the update the ui got a bit to small for my liking and I haven't found a way to change it.
Liftoff was the first real app I tried and I do like it, but when I tried it I ran into some big problems with cross instance interactions, so I went back to using the website.
wefwef is perfectly fine, I have nothing really to complain about. Personally I just prefer Jerboa more.
In regards to the overall experience I like it here, I have found some communities. Some a lot better then the Reddit equivalent. Unfortunately some of my favourite communities have not migrated, so that is a bit sad.
Liking it a lot so far. I'll be able to stay here 100% reddit free if my sports communities ever come over.
Just need a kbin app. I've been splitting time between kbin and Lemmy and I was using kbin way more over the last couple weeks because the site is better but now the Lemmy apps are getting really damn good so I'm finding myself using Lemmy more suddenly. The post or filters or something just seems better on kbin. Also the nsfw rarely shows up in my main feed. I prefer to go out of my way to see that stuff.
Jeobora with post view mode : list. I had trouble creating a username first because the app just doesn't do it so I did that from desktop.
I could never even get into Reddit. I couldn't post because I didn't have karma so it was useless to me.
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 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.
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
