I don’t know if you’ve noticed this, but threads or comments about Lemmy or the Fediverse get downvoted a lot on Reddit and trolls who claim that it’s “dogshit” and “not going anywhere” get systematically upvoted.

Some of those trolls get then exposed when you ask them what Lemmy instance they tried and one of them with whom I had a surreal exchange answered with something like “yeah ofc I used Lemmy, this is the instance: join-lemmy.org” 🤦‍♂️

It’s frustrating that these trolls keep contributing to the big lie that “Lemmy is not ready yet” and that there’s “no viable alternative to Reddit”.

This and the overwhelming number of comments being “against the mod protests” just prompts me to question whether there isn’t some brigading being organized straight from the Reddit HQ.

  • @Extra_Cucumber_2979
    79•2 years ago

    Once - unfortunately - Apollo app will be down, in less than 2 weeks, I’m pretty sure Lemmy will surge and they will come complaining here 😅

    • @airportline
      9•2 years ago

      Maybe. It’s not like there’s a Lemmy app (for iOS) that’s as good as Apollo.

      • @FrullaPapaya
        7•2 years ago

        Have you tried Jerboa for Lemmy? It is not Apollo but it is comfortable and ads free

        • @airportline
          15•2 years ago

          Jerboa is for Android. Apollo is for iOS.

        • @josephboyer
          15•2 years ago

          Memmy is in TestFlight if you fancied being a tester.

          • @FlaxPickerEnglish
            11•2 years ago

            Same with mlem. It’s a little ahead of memmy in development right now.

            • @avapaEnglish
              13•2 years ago

              Mlem has become really good since they updated the app two days ago.

              • @ImDonaldDunnEnglish
                6•2 years ago

                They really need to fix some of their accessibility issues. Comment text cannot be resized which makes it impossible for me to use the app. Memmy respects the dynamic text sizing in iOS, so I’m using it for now. It’s not up to feature parity with Mlem but the developer is doing a great job with adding features.

                • ddhEnglish
                  1•2 years ago

                  Memmy also works natively on iPad. Mlem has just a zoomed iPhone version.

                  • @FlaxPickerEnglish
                    1•2 years ago

                    YES. It feels so good on ipad with memmy. I saw someone made a pull request to mlem adding ipad compatibility already though. It seems the mlem team is wanting to wait a bit on it for reasons im unaware of, but hopefully it gets added soon.

              • @[email protected]English
                2•2 years ago

                I hope they soon implement that proper dark mode, image zoom and search tool but yes since mlem the only reason i still open Apollo is to laugh seeing reddit burn :3

        • Fredselfish
          6•2 years ago

          What I am using for android and its not RIF but it is not bad and allows me to join this community on mobile which is how I use social media.

          I do constructive things on PC.

      • @handhookcardoor
        4•2 years ago

        There’s Mlem and Lemmy, both are fine, just early in development. Both take heavy inspiration from Apollo, and work great.

    • digitallyfree
      9•2 years ago

      I’m already seeing an increase in trolling and spam across the Lemmy and Kbin instances. Hopefully the mods can handle the influx.

    • @josephboyer
      6•2 years ago

      I miss Apollo everyday. I haven’t used it since the blackout in solidarity.