& 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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🥲
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 [email protected] can talk to [email protected].
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.
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. If you need any more help, just let us know!
Edit 2: I just found this well-curated app list from Lemdro.id that includes app descriptions: https://lemdro.id/post/4319
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/[email protected] 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.
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.
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.
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!
I hadn’t thought of that! It would be nice to just abolish karma altogether. Like keep scores in comments, but not on accounts.
I think AI image generation is cool too, I’ll check your community out!
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.
Yep its jerboa for me
I could never even get into Reddit. I couldn’t post because I didn’t have karma so it was useless to me.
Its been one day without Reddit
It’s been one week since you looked at me, cocked your head to the side and said, “I’m angry.”
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
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 :-)
I’m on Jerboa as well and enjoy it. I’m just not sure whether I’m missing the larger picture or it’s just not robust enough yet.
Either way, I find I’m not missing much.
I started on Jerboa but I tried Liftoff and I actually like it much better.
You are on iOS right? Because I can’t find Liftoff on any Android store.
You can get it here: Lifoff Github
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.
Yeah, it seems that reddit hasn’t yet made the rate limit changes to the API. They talk about it here how it will go into effect the upcoming week(s)
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.
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
