Escaping Reddit’s bullsh*t. I exclusively use Reddit using Infinity, Apollo and old.reddit.com. They are now killing the API (and 3rd party clients for that matter) and I don’t think that old.reddit.com will live much longer tbh and I cannot be bothered to use the new Reddit. It takes ages to load and is WAY to bloated. Add the NFT Profile pictures and RPAN into the mix and you have a dead website in my eyes.
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I’m the same. I signed up to Mastodon and really liked the concept but I was never a huge fan of the Twitter format and never actually used Twitter. I wanted a Reddit equivalent and ended up here.
Some parts, especially the apps, need a bit more polishing and I’m only saying that because I’m coming from using Infinity for Reddit. If I came from the official Reddit app the new lack of ads alone would help me ignore those quirks.
In my experience, I have never needed an app on Lemmy or Mastodon the way I have for Reddit or Twitter. It turns out you can actually make a web interface that is lightweight and responsive when it isn’t bogged down by a long list of arbitrary conflicting demands for data collection, advertising, and inflating corporate KPIs.
It’s still nice to have some good apps, but it is not essential and website-ending the way it is with Reddit.
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I tried Lemur but I had a lot of issues with it. It hasn’t been updated for 9 months now and that might be why it stopped working entirely? Jerboa works most of the time but showed a few cracks when the instance I’m on was returning errors and logged me out completely a few times.
I’d also like to see Infinity adapted for Lemmy and I wonder how easy it would be? Even if it needs to be forked, which is probably a better idea anyway, it’s a pretty great base to start from. It’s been pretty flawless for using Reddit and it’s the only reason I didn’t give up on the platform a few years ago.
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Some people are really annoying about it or don’t see other good stuff, but the open-source movement is a serious force for freedom imo.
I’m sure I’m not alone feeling like all these corporations slowly stole the whole internet from us like we were frogs in a boiling pot. And we let it happen because it was convenient, but now the facade is crumbling and we’re reaching late-stage.
It’s high time to seek refuge on better shores, and while I just got here it feels like Lemmy and the Fediverse more generally might be it.
Agreed
Yeah, it’s extremely refreshing to find online spaces that are non-extractive again where one can exist without entities trying to sell you something. You start to realize the awful way that most tech treats its users. We’ve been getting boiled alive, slowly.
Yeah it’s a sobering experience. Also freeing :)
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I learned of it awhile back through an arrrr acquaintance. I would lurk a little here and there. Didn’t make a profile until I saw my RIF was going to die… Without RIF there is no reddit.
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Reddit moving against my preferred clients. I’m not abandoning the site completely until both third-party and old.reddit is gone, but thought I might as well have a foot out the door. Lemmy just seemed like the most closely related option.
This is basically the same reason for me. I’m purely using old.reddit.com on desktop and rif on mobile (though I rarely browse on mobile). Once old Reddit is gone for good, I’ll be leaving Reddit entirely.
I miss dial-up BBSes and federated message echoes like FidoNet. This kind of stuff feels a bit like the good ol’ days! (I’m old)
Honestly just playing around w/ self hosting it.
I’ve been curious about the fediverse since I first learned about it, which was probably about when Trump’s social media company cloned Mastodon instead of creating their own site from scratch. I did some reading and glanced at some different fediverse sites, but couldn’t entirely wrap my mind around how the fediverse worked and honestly I was overwhelmed by the server choice aspect, especially since so many Mastodon servers in particular seem focused on specific topics and there wasn’t any one specific topic I wanted to interact with more than the others.
Once Elon took over Twitter, I decided to finally sign up for a general Mastodon server out of a voyeuristic desire to see what the people fleeing had to say about their experiences. Joining in the middle of the Twitter exodus meant tons of fediverse tips and explanation posts were being shared and I finally got a better grasp of how the fediverse as a whole worked. I commented on PeerTube from Mastodon, I tried PixelFed and learned the global feed was pretty much all Mastodon posts and wished there was a global PixelFed-only option between local server and entire fediverse, and I finally settled on Calckey because it’s way more playful with emojis and text animations but still allowed me to follow all the fascinating scientists that had hopped on the Mastodon train and Calckey formatted their Mastodon posts well.
I had checked out Lemmy, too, when reading up on the fediverse because I use Reddit far more than any other social media site. I initially passed on Lemmy because of server choice paralysis again and also because it didn’t look very active. Now that Reddit is making their API unaffordable for third party apps, it seemed like a good time to give Lemmy a chance. The official Reddit app and site are insufferable and I’d rather start over in a smaller community without the ads (I loathe ads) than deal with an app that’s too cluttered with irrelevant features like NFTs or use a website that constantly begs me to switch over to that terrible app instead.
I hope this does well. I have been using the internet since the 90s and it has been a crazy evolution. I’d love if we move out from the walled gardens that took over. Maybe I’ll just be on the fringes while the masses stay with the corporations, but at least there are good people in these fringes.
I’ve been looking for a change from Reddit for a while now and as an Apollo user this is the push I needed. So far this seems like a much better alternative to Reddit!
Mostly because of Lemmy spam on reddit intensified 😅 technically it is good alternative, but it lacks content.
Be the change you want to see!
