👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!

    • slipuke@vlemmy.net
      48·
      1 year ago

      Rif has been reddit for me for the past 10 ish years now, opened the app today to see error 429.

      Good to be here :)

      • dchen4
        23·
        1 year ago

        Ngl Jerboa is quite similar to RiF, so I’m definitely settling in well.

        • Benghandhi@beehaw.org
          8·
          1 year ago

          Jerboa stopped working for me today for whatever reason so I switched to Connect and actually think I like it better so far.

          • wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org
            5·
            1 year ago

            Could be due to the version of the instance you’re on. Beehaw is on an older version and Jerboa crashes when you open it as Jerboa is on the latest version.

            • Liz@midwest.social
              5·
              1 year ago

              Yeah they really gotta make the app robust against old versions of Lemmy. No way all the instances are going to update as soon as the latest version is pushed.

              • samsy@feddit.de
                2·
                1 year ago

                The reason is 0.18 breaks a lot of features for example captcha. They all waiting for the fix.

                • Liz@midwest.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I’m aware, but even so, admins have day jobs and whatnot. Perfectly coordinating every update across the entire Lemmy federation is just not something you should expect.

            • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
              2·
              1 year ago

              It’s my fave too but unfortunately has the opposite problem to Jerboa and currently servers that have upgraded to 0.18.1 don’t work! Hope they can get it sorted soon.

              Edit: This is now fixed, hurrah!

          • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
            1·
            1 year ago

            Jeroba needs Lemmy version 0.18.0, some instances are still on 0.17.4. You can sign up with another instance that’s up to date and Jeroba should work.

        • slipuke@vlemmy.net
          3·
          1 year ago

          Using wefwef for now, thanks for the recommendation will give it a gander.

          I love how quickly the community is coming up with replacements for apps and the service as a whole that people are used to.

            • slipuke@vlemmy.net
              5·
              1 year ago

              It’s a PWA(Progressive Web App) that functions through the browser and can be installed as an application that is just a wrapper around the browser.

              All that to say it works on both Android and iOs, using it on Android myself.

                • slipuke@vlemmy.net
                  4·
                  1 year ago

                  Hope you’ve found the install button, it becomes more like a normal app once you can launch it directly from the app drawer instead of through the browser

    • Bigocciput@lemm.ee
      14·
      1 year ago

      Very sad to say goodby to RIF after 9 years. Lets get this party started and I got some learning to do in this new environment.

    • LemmyInRedditSux @lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You’re all the technology-savvy intelligent ones who figured out Lemmy right away, months ago. I was trying to get into Lemmy even before July 1st but finally figured it out today November 10th! I finally got into Lemmy today. It was nearly as difficult as applying & repeatedly being rejected for competitive employment somewhere. sheesh.

    • ShrimpGlizzy@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Guess I’ll piggy-back; This is my first post/comment here as well. I came from Apollo (long time subscriber & beta tester). I think the grass will be greener… bring on the refugees and Boost for Lemmy (Maybe one day Apollo? One can dream)!

    • jackoneill@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I came over when the blackout started and it already feels more like home than Reddit has in years. Reddit slowly got more and more toxic/up its own ass as time went on…… like do you remember the episode of South Park where Kyle’s family moves to San Francisco? It was the Prius episode…. All the folks in San Fran sat around all day getting high and sniffing their own farts. That’s how Reddit has felt recently.

      This change has been a long time coming I think, fuckin spez just threw some gas on a fire to try and make a quick buck.

      Welcome!

  • noogie@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    611·
    1 year ago

    I was in denial about Apollo going dark and naturally when I woke up at 2am I had to spend 2 hours finding & getting lemmy & wefwef setup.

    Bye bye reddit!

    • Rannoch@lemm.ee
      20·
      1 year ago

      Hah, me right now when I should’ve been asleep long ago. I tried to open RIF as usual, realized it really happened, and then spent the last hour or two trying to understand this site and make an account and whatnot. I was only partially successful on the former, but at least I made it here!

    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk
      11·
      1 year ago

      I used Relay for Reddit for over 10 years. I just opened it to find it still working. Apparently the Dev is working out a pricing model with Reddit and it is continuing to work. I wish him the best of luck but sadly I’m not goning to be paying.

    • zidanerickEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Was on Apollo when it went dark, thought it was going to be a few more hours and apparently so did Christian but they killed access before he could revoke the key. Fuck reddit/u/spez

  • denny@feddit.de
    54·
    1 year ago

    💖 to everybody who’s making this possible. There’s hoping that all the traffic can be managed

    • iegod@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      Speaking of traffic, if I were interested in running my own federate, what can I expect in terms of loading and where is the content actually stored, my single instance or distributed? I see the reqs. on RAM and CPU utilization but I’m actually more curious about usage data.

  • Fais@lemm.ee
    40·
    1 year ago

    I joined 2 weeks ago, I technically am a migrant lol but I feel like a veteran already .

    WELCOME REDDITORS!

      • Fais@lemm.ee
        8·
        1 year ago

        We used to struggle without our beloved pre built subreddits!

        We had to pray to our instance develop lords with praise for giving us space!

        Fr fr tho this experience is historical and I’m learning just as much as you! I learn if there’s a community missing that you used to frequent, make it yourself!

        I ended up making [email protected] to fill my GOAT manga needs

      • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        I unironically like the default web UI. It’s like a modernized old reddit. Also installed the PWA. I’d try wefwef, but its’ instance selector doesn’t even have the instance whose meta community we’re currently discussing it in :(

        • Zana@startrek.websiteEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          It didn’t have my instance either but it let me type it in and it worked, so I would try again :)

          • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Ah right, it let me do it from the login modal, but not the instance selection modal lol

  • manuel@feddit.de
    36·
    1 year ago

    Second ever comment here. I watched Apollo shut down live, went to sleep and then immediately tried opening it up again after waking up, out of habit - girlfriends still asleep and I got so used to browsing Reddit for a bit before we get up on weekends, it has become muscle memory.

    Using Wefwef currently and it’s nice, awesome work especially for a web app.

  • Shambles404
    34·
    1 year ago

    This whole fediverse thing is a bit strange after 10 years of rif. But Reddit was going downhill for quite a while. Hope this takes off!

      • Troy@lemmy.ca
        7·
        1 year ago

        I think I’ve figured everything out, except how to link to posts across servers. That still drives me mad. Some of the apps (like Connect for Lemmy) are doing URL rewriting, but I can’t assume that’s happening for everyone.

        • Shambles404
          12·
          1 year ago

          It’s pretty strange coming from Reddit. Each instance has its own communities but you can access all of them from the instance you signed up in? Like the equivalent of subreddits within subreddits. Or maybe I’m just unused to it.

          • MikeHfuhruhurr@lemm.ee
            8·
            1 year ago

            I’ve been trying to think of a good metaphor, but I haven’t landed on one yet. The best thing I’ve thought of is the old saying:

            Whereever you are, you’re here.

            Federation (for lemmy) is the concept of the different instances sharing sublemmys, posts, and comments with each other. So you can be on any instance and interact or subscribe with things from another.

            The strong caveat is: some instances turn off federation with others. For example, Beehaw has stronger moderation, and they had problems with users and spam from a specific other instance (lemmy.world was one, I think). So in that case, Beehaw turned off federation with lemmy.world. That means that if you were logged in to Beehaw, you would not see any new content from lemmy.world until they turned federation back on.

            edit: I thought of one more thing. For communities that are run by their developers, like Minecraft, Lemmy is a great solution. They could host their own Lemmy instance (lemmy.minecraft) and lock down so that only their sublemmy - /c/Minecraft - is created. But when they federate, they get all the other content from other Lemmy instances.

            • As a user, you could sign up with lemmy.minecraft or lemm.ee, etc., and still see everything you want and sub to the /c/Minecraft.

            • As mods/admins, they only need to focus on their Minecraft thing. And they have complete control over that, because they can literally shut down the entire instance.

          • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
            5·
            1 year ago

            It’s just different sites (instances) running the Lemmy software, that all work together and share their data to create “Lemmy” the overall platform.

            The concept is simple enough but the implementation can be a bit weird and especially right now when everyone’s trying out different mobile apps that are in different stages of development and have support for different features. Some of them make it a bit awkward to do things new users need to do like search and sub to communities, etc.

            If there’s anything in particular you’re stuck on, feel free to ask!

            • ThenThereWasLemmy@lemm.ee
              3·
              1 year ago

              I’m just confused about communities. Like if I wanted to follow a community about movies, is there a way to tell which community is the “main” one? Is there even such a thing as a “main” community on Lemmy? If not then how do people know where to be?? I love the federated concept but it also feels non user friendly, which I’m sure at least in part is because I’m confused.

              • thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee
                5·
                1 year ago

                So the idealistic idea is that there shouldn’t be a “main” community, there should be multiple that are all slightly different in terms of their approach to the topic and you can choose which one(s) best align with what you want.

                In reality, at least until the userbase is significantly larger, it actually does make sense to huddle a bit for now and split up topics as needed later. So in this case what I’d do is head to Lemmy Explorer and search for your topic ie https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies

                This is quite a broad topic obviously so with a vague keyword search you’re gonna turn up some irrelevant things but there should be some that fit what you need. Then you can change the sort order to whatever you care about most, subscribers, active users, posts etc to decide which is the one you’re most interested in.

                Personally I’ve just been subbing to all related communities on a topic, and crossposting my posts to see which one gets the most traction. The little “two squares” icon below the post info is crosspost, works pretty well. Ymmv with that tactic 🙂

          • steltek@lemm.ee
            3·
            1 year ago

            I’m thinking of it like pre-Reddit phpBB forums on multiple sites except I only have to create one login and everything funnels into one convenient place.

    • schnitzelbub@lemm.ee
      141·
      1 year ago

      And reddit still has a long way down. Look at Facebook, it never died, it just lost most young users and it grew stale with conspiracy theories, blind hatred and fake news.

      • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.website
        13·
        1 year ago

        It’s the walmart-ification of social media. They’re self sustaining because of their size, but that’s not enough to make them an enjoyable experience. Just corporate, sterile, and lots of bored people.

        • schnitzelbub@lemm.ee
          5·
          1 year ago

          It’s like buying from a supermarket and getting pretty much everything in one stop (most of it being mediocre) VS getting local, yummy, Bio, more expensive products from 5 local small shops.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee
    30·
    1 year ago

    that is cool. there is no such thing as too many graphs, so don’t be shy in the future 😆