Tomorrow, reddit will be shutting off 3rd party app access. If the twitter migration is anything to go by, that means that the wave of new users coming in the next few weeks will be much bigger than the wave we saw earlier this month.
Our lead techy admin @[email protected] is also recovering from broken bones and surgery, so she will be slower to respond to issues :)
All of that being said, we’re as prepared as we can be. We’re currently running our instance on hardware with excess capacity to spare, but who knows if it will be enough.
So, good luck to all of us, and see you on the other side :)
The reddit app I used stopped working yesterday (yes I know why but it’s funnier to pretend I don’t) so here I am! Trying to figure out how lemmy works in the context of the larger fediverse.
Download Wifwif (pwa) and tell your friends. Let’s kill that IPO
Nothing comes up when I Google Wifwif pwa. What is it?
They likely meant wefwef :) It’s a mobile app for lemmy
I googled that and I didn’t find it, what is that?
They mean wefwef, it’s a Progressive Web App which means you visit their website (wefwef.app), press the three dots and select “Add to homescreen”, instead of downloading it through the app store on your phone
Just got here and I hope a lot of awesome people head on over here from Reddit. To the #fediverse!
I woke up to all this new content, amazing 😍🤩
Hi, I’m one of the RiFugees, using the same name I did on Reddit. This looks like my place on lemmy for now, thanks to all who had the foresight to set it up!
I rode the Apollo train right to the end, about ten minutes ago. So long, Shitty CEO, please let the door hit you twenty times on the way out.
BaconReader went down too and I finally decided to make an account here. Interested to see how this goes but I know I won’t be using the official reddit app
Welcome!
Apollo is (well, was) one of my favorite apps. Just because of how well-designed and thought out it was, especially with the iOS design language. Sad to see it go, but at least I’ve got wefwef.
Memmy and Mlem are both native 3PAs based on Apollo. They both have test flight betas, but they’re also both full currently. Memmy has been submitted for app store approval though and should be available soon.
I was gonna keep lurking Reddit until Sync shut down, now I’m on Lemmy. Took me a little bit to figure the platform out tbh, having third party apps for it now seems to be great.
What app do you use? Jerboa isn’t compatible with Blahaj Lemmy (older version).
I like liftoff and wefwef.app but try Jerboa again, either the instance or app must have updated because it’s working for me right now.
Yes, blahaj is running 0.18.x now as you can see in the footer on the web version
I’m really enjoying ‘Connect for Lemmy’. It’s somewhat similar to RIF
There it is!
Thanks.
It’s pretty easy once you figure out where to sign up, and download whichever app you like best. It’s actually pretty flexible imo
Was waiting for Narwhal to break and it never happened. Turns out the dev got a deal to not pay anything until he can release a ‘Narwhal 2’ that’s subscription only. Wasn’t an Apollo user but the dev got shafted and reddit didn’t offer anything close to what the Narwhal dev did. Still deleted my account as planned and deleted their app off my phone.
Same with Relay, seems to be working just fine so guess he struck some kind of deal too
Yeah I saw that too, spez is a piece of shit, did you also see all the lies he made up about the Apollo dev? It was so childish lol
Yeah. I was following all his posts even though I preferred a different app. fuck spez and fuck the dev of narwhal for being a boot-licker.
Fuck spez, certainly, but I can easily understand why Narwhal’s developer took the deal. I’m sure they invested a huge amount of time and effort into their app and it’s hard to walk away from that when there’s a viable path forward. Apollo’s dev would have probably taken the same deal, had it been on the table. The problem was never that Reddit needed to start charging for API access, it’s that they priced it unreasonably high after assuring devs they wouldn’t and also gave very little notice before those prices took effect.
First comment on Lemmy! I think that it’ll be hard to for people to understand instances at first but hopefully over time the value of chosing how you interact will be clear
Just know that I appreciate you all! Thank you!
RedditIsFun is down, so I am out. Used it for the 10 years I was there, and don’t like the “New Reddit” they’ve been creating for monetization-sake.
So I was going to go check and make sure Joey wasn’t working and well lol it’s up. Also their subreddit mentions red reader being up. What’s that about?
I don’t remember hiring a ghost writer for my autobiography, but you got all the details right!
Freelancing my ghostwriting skills… they’re not honed enough to charge for yet. Haha
Yup, same. Been on it since 2011 or so. I’m transitioning out of that space. Trying to find the most user-friendly Lemmy experience, atm.
I’m using jerboa, and it’s been… okay, so far. Not a vast array of choices for mobile, but I’m optimistic.
10 years here as well. Was sad opening it up and seeing nothing, even though I knew it was coming.
Was worse because they closed it down at like 5pm on the 30th where Reddit is based. I was hoping it would last till midnight :/
Yeah. It’s bittersweet for sure. I used to thoroughly enjoy reddit 5 or so years ago… and at the risk sounding like a crotchety old man, “it’s not as good as it once was!” Things change, and I’m eager to see if lemmy is as good as it is in theory. Federated site sounds so futuristicly positive!
Same, I’ve had a reddit account for 8 years, but I lurked since maybe a couple of years since it’s inception. Used RIF for maybe 6 years.
I hate what reddit has become. I’m not someone who regularly participates with any communities, so I cannot really be relied upon to generate content, I’m a perpetual consumer rather than a producer.
I’m just looking for somewhere that gives me access to the latest news about the things I care about. So far Lemmy seems to have a lot if promise!
Do you have any advice on finding the subreddit equivalents? I followed a lot of hyperspecific subs like FortniteLeaks and Indiettrpg design and lfg stuff, and I’ve no idea how to find things like that here
Every instance seems to make a asklemmy or copy of other popular Reddit subs, so everything is spread out. I bet we just have to wait a bit to see where people will post, how much server power instances needs, which ones will survive and so on.
Interesting times indeed.
Yeah! It gives me a good vibe. Seems to hit upon what you’re looking for too, so I hope you end up enjoying it!
I’ve been here since earlier this month but now that “Boost for Reddit” is down, I’ll be here a lot more instead of splitting my time 50/50
Thanks as always to you and @[email protected]!!! Best wishes that she gets better soon!
Thanks lovely. I’m back on my feet mostly now… still pretty sore but better every day.
Sync just stopped for me sooooo here I am.
Welcome!
I came here in anticipation of this day. Let me know if you have any question about lemmy or kbin “the threadiverse”.
RIF just stopped too. RIP.
Yep. The bridge is burned. Theres no going back now. Fuck Steve Huffman
Aaron Swartz would be so disappointed in him.
RIP sync
Was using Sync pro, moved here a few weeks ago and never looked back at reddit since.
RIP Sync, you were the best
Thanks for being as on top of things as possible. I’m still mourning Apollo but hoping to bring some folks from reddit over here soon.
Sync died :(
Give Thunder a shot, at least until Sync for Lemmy releases (and stabilizes)
Have been trying Thunder, Jerboa, and Connect, along with a few others. Grateful to have options again, and ever appreciative of recommendations.
Posting from Jerboa now, but have been going back and forth between that and Thunder!
Try wefwef too
Wefwef seems like having issues with my Firefox. The keyboard does hide behind the active browser window. I am running kalyxOS might be a combination issue but never had it with any page before. When I reset the browser window it seems to work , annoying though
Odd, I’m using Firefox too. Maybe ask on the wefwef community?
Have not heard of that yet, will give it a try! Thanks for the recommendation!
I invade! I’m sad about the small communities that are dying but I hope I can be a part of new ones here!
Why not bring them along? I created a lemmy instance of the subreddit I used the most – and posted about it in the subreddit. IF everyone does that (or promote existing lemmi communities), the traffic will move…