& 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?
Yeah Lemmy seems the way forward. It just sucks for all the subs that won’t be making it here anytime soon. Niche subs I’m following for example, I’ll still have to rely on Reddit.
There’s definitely a period of transition. I didn’t expect to completely jump ship since I replied so heavily on reddit for community information and general news. However Lemmy does look really promising.
It does actually. I’m creating a community for one of the subreddits I was a part of, hopefully more people will join and fully migrate from Reddit.
It’s heroes like you that make it all possible. Not everyone has the time or ability to moderate a new community, but it’s great that those that do take initiative to do so. Once the community exists at all, it’s much easier for others to start posting, which gets the ball rolling. There isn’t any silver on this site to give but here, have a Lemmy Lemon 🍋
When Lemmy gives you a Lemon, you make lemonade 🍋
I was forced to take a serious look at the number of subs I was following for drama’s sake before opening my own sub because I don’t want to be at it 24/7
Can‘t you just open them yourself?
I opened a couple sure but the problem is getting the traffic on here. I can’t just make a post on the subreddit because it gets removed immediately by the mods.
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.
Yep 10 years of rif for me. I found towards the end it was getting pretty stagnant. Its exciting to see something new growing in real time. All aboard the fediverse express.
Not only something new, but also something that everyone in the community is excited about and have a vested interest in.
Wefwef made all the difference. While I know it’s not Reddit the similarities in experience have made the move much easier.
Also amazing to see the beginning of all of these new communities!
Wefwef is definitely worth
I’m here on the fediverse via Jerboa. I agree it’s definitely deterring me from using the official Reddit app!
I’d been using Baconreader for about 10 years, and I’m blown away at how easy the transition has been. Still don’t fully understand the fediverse (made my account yesterday lol), but this post was really helpful for getting started!
I’m surprised at how easy it was to make the switch. Now that servers are stabilizing here this is pretty much a very similar experience.
I kinda prefer Lemmy atm. It feels fresh in a way Reddit hasn’t in a long time.
I could easily see this being a more seamless switch than we feared. So far I am hopeful!
Lemmy is amazing. 1 day clean from reddit was easy, let’s do 1 year next!
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 was pretty much a strict lurker on Reddit, so the smaller community here is certainly a bit of a change for me. Only thing for me to do is to change my habits with it, and start actually joining in and adding to the conversations.
Howdy!
In recognition of your contribution to the community, I present you with the coveted Lemmy Lemon award.
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Please let’s make the Lemmy Lemon award an unofficially official thing. After reading that I want people to use it more
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I like this idea! Take your Lemmy Lemon. 🍋
Agree the big thread here are pretty comparable, but are still missing a lot of small subreddit/thread.
You have summed up my feelings exactly.
Greetings, fellow lurker! The torch has been passed. It is our turns to carry it until the communities grow larger and we can recede back to the shadows
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
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.
The problem is there are duplicates communities in different instances.
If I find duplicate communities, I just subscribe to all of them. Maybe recheck after some time and look through the activity and unsub then.
Yeah this seems to be the way to go. Sub to all communities of a topic you’re interested in. Then after you find out which ones end up the most popular, unsub from the ones without much activity.
In ways, it’s really not all that different from Reddit. There were lots of essentially “duplicate” subreddits, but the most popular ones win out and gain traction.
And we’re still in the beginning stages here. As time goes on, the larger communities will become de-facto ‘winners’ as more and more people subscribe to those.
And I’m sure smaller ones will do alright too as not everyone will like the culture/curation of the larger ones.
I’ve been using wefwef too (and I’m also an Apollo refugee). Liking it so far, even if I am very confused about how a lot of this works. I hope the Lemmy community continues to grow!
This isn’t the best example, but helped me a lot in understanding it (mostly) It works kind of like E-mail. Each instance is like an email provider. Lemmy.world, beehaw, lemmy.ml, ect are kind of like gmail, yahoo mail, and outlook. So the instance you signed up for is your “lemmy provider” as if Google is your email provider. Now when you email people, you can email to any other provider (yahoo, outlook, etc) and vice versa. They are all similar services but different providers, but they all work together so any person can email any other person. They are federated - one big services, but each provider has its own autonomy in deciding rules, features, etc. So most instances can work with other instances to share information/posts. But not all. Some have deferdeated form others and don’t share posts/information. As if yahoo said they we’re no longer accepting emails from google. So gmail user’s emails would not get sent to Yahoo mail users, but others, like outlook, would. You would say they defederated from google. Much like beehaw did from lemmy.world.
I think that’s a pretty good analogy. One of the things I’m still struggling with is how communities work across instances. If I follow casual conversations on one instance, will I see posts on that community from other instances? Or do I have to follow each individual instance of that community? As I’m trying to find new communities to follow, I often get confused if I’m already following a specific community or which instance I should choose to follow it on.
You can see posts/conversations from other instances if the instances are federated(communicate with each other), which most are/do(?). You just have so subscribe to the communities that aren’t on your instance to do so. But some instances aren’t federated. For example, Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world (and another I forget which) early on due to the open sign ups and moderations issues. I’m on lemme.world, I can go on a beehaw community, I can see the posts, and read through the conversations, but I don’t think they can see if I reply to anything( so I don’t). But this is where I start to lose my grasp on the technology too, so if anyone more knowledgeable than me wants to chime in…
Why would an instance choose to defederate? Maybe I am misunderstanding but wouldn’t this result in several communities being split into several instances without even knowing about each other? Smaller communities (for example I was following a subreddit for bicycle touring) might be too dispersed to function then, no?
While you are correct, the reasons for Beehaw defederating from lemmy seems to be something they have to do in order to moderate their own instance. As the technology grows (and hopefully modtools get built - like bots perhaps? and more mods in general), there will be no need to deferederate like Beehaw did. However, to give you an example as to why an instance would want to defederate (essentially, be private), is if it’s for an exclusive group of people. A workplace, or a subscription add-on. (think like, subscribing to a patreon, and as part of their offering, you get to sign up for their lemmy (or whatever server) instance). Maybe that isn’t how it would work, but in my brain, that’s a way it could be used and be beneficial :)
Honestly, I’m pretty excited about being a “pioneer” (sorry to those who have been here for longer). I never commented much on Reddit, but plan to contribute more here.
I’m making an active effort to comment here more. I feel like that’s the case with a ton of people who are here now and that’s why the community seems so awesome.
I’d love to comment more but I’m still so confused. People keep talking about all these other apps and here I am just typing lemmy.world into my chrome browser on my phone. I’ve never felt more old. I’ve read every how-to I can find and I think I need to just come to terms with being old. 🥲
Hey! You made it here and you’re posting comments Lol. You already jumped the biggest hurdle and got signed up. If you didn’t want to try another app but wanted a cleaner interface, put wefwef.app into your phones browser and log in with that. But even just using it how you are is fine! That’s the great thing about this, we can all use different apps and still reach the same place.
Thanks so much! That’s reassuring. I am still a little confused about all the apps and widgets that are being discussed and/or recommended, but everyone has been so helpful, I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it eventually.
Give it a few months, when more apps are released and more people join/add more content. Lemmy is one thing, but having an app that can show Lemmy in a more simple way for new users, will help a lot. So far, we have a bunch of apps that do the same thing in different ways, you just have to choose which one fits your style.
My first time commenting on Lemmy 😅
Lol, I’m honored that your first time commenting was to help me! Thank you!
If the mobile website fine for you, you don’t need to get an app. I used the mobile website in my phone’s browser with no problem for a few days before I started trying out apps out of curiosity. So far, I’ve settled on the Liftoff app, but again having an app isn’t necessary because of how well the mobile website works. I’m not someone who needs an app for everything and I prefer it when mobile websites are useable. Reddit made me angry when they made their mobile website annoying to use by trying to force people onto their app. I used a 3rd-party app instead, but now that’s going away so here I am on Lemmy.
If you don’t want to bother with Lemmy apps, you can create a shortcut to Lemmy.world on your phone’s home screen which can make it faster to open up Lemmy as if you were using an app. Since you’re using Chrome, I’m assuming you’re on Android, so here are some instructions if you want to add the shortcut.
How to Add a Website to Your Android Home Screen
Hope that helps!
Edit: Also, if you do want to try out an app, Here’s a post with some Lemmy apps that are currently available.
That’s all so helpful, thank you so much!
I edited my first comment with this Lemdro.id link that lists all available apps with descriptions if you’re interested in finding an app that works for you. If you want to vote and comment on that post with your lemmy.world account, I think this link will work for you https://lemmy.world/c/lemdroid@lemdro.id From there just go to the topic. Hmm, my preview is showing that link as a lemm.ee link (my instance) rather than a lemmy.world link, so sorry if it doesn’t work for you. But I include it to show you how to make links on other instances accessible to your own account on a different instance for voting, subscribing, and commenting.
‘Your instance url/c/community name@community’s instance url’ does the trick. Took me a little while to figure that out, so I thought I’d give you a tip too. 🙂
The other way to do it is just to go to Communities at the top of your instance and use the search box to search for the community name. Make sure to select All under List of Communities so that the results include communities on other instances. When the community comes up in the results, you’ll be able to go to it and interact with it on your account. Just look to make sure it’s right instance as we do have some duplicate communities in the Fediverse across different instances. Like if you search Android in the Communities search box with All selected, we currently have 3 communities that are /c/Android but on 3 different instances: lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and Lemdro.id. But if you search Lemdroid, there’s only one community and that’s on Lemdro.id.
Also I don’t know if you’ve seen this image which helped me understand more how Lemmy works: The Fediverse for Reddit Refugees. It goes over with pictures how to search for Lemmy communities.
Great; you’re welcome!
If you want to try an easy solution, WefWef is a webapp that can be used from a browser or installed as a PWA and takes many queues from the popular (now defunct) Apollo Reddit app.
Many proper third party apps are in development, with some of them having early releases available already. There is a list here where you can explore and keep track of them.
Thank you! I’m saving that list!
same here, tbh. lemmy’s no-nonsense ui works great on a phone, and with modern ui design that’s actually expected behavior. so many sites intentionally break their mobile site to push people toward apps but that doesn’t mean the browser should be useless on mobile.
That’s so true! I guess I’ve kinda forgotten the days when I used reddit on my desktop browser. I used rif and other apps for so long, being back in my browser feels foreign again.
Lemmy also has an API that clients can get information/content from. The Web frontend (lemmy.world) is one of them. Apps like wefwef and Jerboa also ask the Lemmy API for content and display it in their own way.
Thank you! Would you be able to explain what element.io is? I’m going around trying all the buttons and when I click the button to PM someone I get a note saying it’s not secure and to make an account on element.io
That’s the second time this site or someone on it has prompted me to make another account somewhere else (the first was mastodon,) and I’m not really grasping why. I understand the “login for secure communications” part, but not how all these apps/websites work together and which ones I need. I signed up for Mastodon but it’s like a 3rd party app for Twitter and that has me extra confused.
Element is a client for Matrix, a decentralized chat protocol featuring end-to-end-encryption. Lemmy seems to support DMs over the Matrix Chat protocol. Matrix is federated, so user1@matrix.org can talk to user2@matrixinstance.space.
Some fediverse apps can work together seamlessly, some can’t, and support seems to be growing over time. E. g. Mastodon users can comment on PeerTube, but Lemmy users can’t (not that I know of), but it’s not impossible that will change in the future. But, kbin for example integrates seamlessly into Lemmy.
I’m happy that boost for Reddit is still working, but I know that once boost for lemmy is released I’ll never look back at reddit. Fuck u/spez for how he treated his users
Seems like Boost can go down any minute. It says it was shutting down on July 1 but it’s still up.
Killing Bacon Reader was a deal breaker for me. Not looking back at all.
Former RIF user here. I rather not use reddit than use the official spyware app
I deleted my account once Sync stopped working. So glad Ljdawson is switching it over to lemmy
Can’t wait until sync for lemmy is a thing lol
Can’t wait until sync for lemmy is a thing lol
Finally glad reddit is dying
Removed by mod
the harder they fall.
The internet seems fresh for a fleeting moment
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?
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.
