👋 to all the newcomers, let me know if you need any help getting settled in!
My first post as a refugee! Glad this place is here to fill the void.
Welcome, Bill!
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)!
If you came from Apollo, than you can jump back on Apollo. Sorta.
Thank you; It’s currently down, but I like its UI. I’ve been beta testing Memmy for Lemmy on iOS, and so far I really enjoy it! I have Apollo up and running actually, but I haven’t used it as much since I found Memmy.
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Baby Steps to Lemmy, Baby steps to the comments, baby Steps to the post. -Dr. Leo Marvin
This perfectly describes the last month for me.
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!
Welcome to the party!
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Don’t have to live like a refugee
It’s Bill frickin Murray
Welcome Bill, welcome to the new wave!
Welcome! Check out this guide if you need any help understanding Lemmy and the fediverse 😊
Joining the party as RIF kicks the bed :')
Gonna miss RIF.
Yup. Little pang of sadness seeing it finally gone. I got years of procrastination out of that app.
Me too.
Me three.
Me four
Me five.
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 :)
Ngl Jerboa is quite similar to RiF, so I’m definitely settling in well.
Definitely like Jerboa so far. Just spent the past hour searching and joining tons of channels.
Jerboa stopped working for me today for whatever reason so I switched to Connect and actually think I like it better so far.
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.
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.
The reason is 0.18 breaks a lot of features for example captcha. They all waiting for the fix.
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.
Jerboa stopped working for me too, I switched to summit, it’s a really nice lemmy app too.
Wow even the classic reddit double comments are here too, feels right at home
Lift off is also great.
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!
Jerboa stopped working for me too, I switched to summit, it’s a really nice lemmy app too.
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.
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.
Is wefwef an android or iOS app? I’m using jerboa, but heard about the virtues of wefwef and wanted to try it.
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.
Testing reply from wefwef. What a strange way to run an App!
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
I just wish there was a decent iOS app for lemmy that worked on iOS 15.
Try wefwef (name sucks). It’s a progressive web app so version shouldnt matter.
Couldn’t get that one to work. Using Liftoff. Its solid. Pretty basic easy layout like rif. A little clunkier and slower. Smooth transition.
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.
Sync for android here
The Dev from Sync announced a new Lemmy app it’s actually a WIP. Just wait a few weeks.
And it’s out now :) It works brilliantly, as you’d expect.
I’m missing baconreader :(
Same. Would love to see them make a lemmy app
damnshame.gif
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.
Was browsing Apollo, it ceased, I opened the Reddit app once, closed it, signed up for Lemmy.
Same but from Reddit is fun
Ditto, had been using it for 13 years… end of an era.
Playstore says i first downloaded rif in 2014. I had rif setup to launch on a downward swipe on the homescreen via nova launcher for just as long. Im not going to uninstall rif but the downward swipe gesture is going to be filled with which ever lemmy app ends up suiting me best
Checkout wefwef.app
It at least looks like RIF for the time being.
Twins in the 13 year club. The last couple years on Reddit saw a pretty major quality decrease, so I’m actually kind of thankful to have an excuse to cut myself free and find a new digital social outlet
Now install wefwef, a great Apollo clone
I came from RiF. I was shocked that reddit even went through with the block. Oh well, onto bigger and better things. Reddit can be a footnote in history.
I just moved Memmy into Apollo’s old place on the home screen. I’m not touching the official reddit app.
💖 to everybody who’s making this possible. There’s hoping that all the traffic can be managed
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.
It depends on many parameters. Data from your users is stored locally. But then you have federation: every time one of your users subscribes to a community of another instance, your instance will cache it locally. You can manage how much cache it uses, but the cache is there of a reason.
Where did you find the CPU and RAM utilization data?
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html
Lemmy uses roughly 150 MB of RAM in the default Docker installation. CPU usage is negligible.
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!
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!
Welcome to the family, son
Thanks, dad.
Goodbye Reddit is Fun, hello Lemmy
RIF will me missed. I just downloaded “connect for lemmy” seems good if youre used to RIF. But i just got the app for 10min so we’ll see
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.
Plus you can’t see nsfw content which a lot of non-porn content still gets marked as
Same, I uninstalled Relay today expecting their app to shutdown soon.
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
Oh for sure! I looked up how to nuke my Reddit account using Power Delete Suite and then created a bookmark on my iOS homepage for wefwef.app . Was even able to integrate my subreddits.
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.
Wow. Wefwef is really great. Thanks for making me aware of it.
Mlem also looks like Apollo
Wefwef is perfect. It already feels like home.
It’s 2am here and I just did exactly the same thing with rif. Gonna take some getting used to…
Give it an hour or so
So long RIF. So long Reddit.
Rest in peace, RIF. Rest in piss, spez.
You betta not piece on the table!
Crazy that looking right past that beautiful blue icon to tap on a Lemmy browser instead. Reddit was amazing for quite a while, time to pass the torch.
Giving this a shot after RIF died on me. Fuck Spez. I hope this takes off.
I joined a few weeks ago but after RIF died just over an hour ago it looks like I’ve found my new home.
I’m so sad about RIF, I also haven’t heard anything about the dev coming here either :(
He’s made some posts here, he linked to a Lemmy community called reddit was fun.
the RIF dev said he was coming to lemmy.world. I just saw the post on my RIF app before i got a 429 error. RIP RIF
From the detritus of the old generation, the new generation shall emerge.
Fuckin waste of time that reddit.
May we all bask in our new waste of time: Lemmy
ALL HAIL \o/
I joined 2 weeks ago, I technically am a migrant lol but I feel like a veteran already .
WELCOME REDDITORS!
that is cool. there is no such thing as too many graphs, so don’t be shy in the future 😆
Do we have a dataisbeautiful yet?
it seems there are some
https://lemm.ee/search?q=dataisbeautiful&type=Communities&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Check sub.rehab
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Haha, guilty. I went to mindlessly pull up RIF at about 7 pm CT and it wasn’t loading comments, then I went oh, right, UTC it’s midnight. And now two hours later here I am on lemmy
Same story here but with Sync on Android. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
I think the Sync devs are making a Lemmy app, so maybe your experience here won’t be too different…
That’s what I hear! Looking forward to it! 😁
devs? iirc there’s only one.
Yep here after sync death. Can’t wait for the new app
Sync is coming to Lemmy so it will be like you never left.
Same here, I just got back from spending a day at the museum with my nephew, and after getting home I tried loading up RIF. Got the “429” and just sighed before looking up a mobile lemmy app.
Welcome!
I just joined after Apollo stopped working. I’ve been over at squabbles since the black out. No idea how this place works. Excited to dig in and figure it out though!
welcome!
lemmyverse.net too!
If you aren’t sold on the interface then check out wefwef.app. No affiliation - just spreading the gospel. It feels like Reddit on Apollo, but here instead.
It’s worth it. If you’re on iOS try Memmy.
I’d strongly recommend Mlem if you liked Apollo.
I want to but the issue is I can’t find an ipa to sideload it on his GitHub and the TestFlights a full. EDIT: I spoke to soon it’s working!
Same—finally had to do the thing, and my god, finding communities to follow has GOT to get a lot easier if this is gonna work out
Which bit are you struggling with? Would be useful to know how it’s looking from a newbie perspective so we can make our explanations more effective. Also, welcome! 😄
Welcome and enjoy!
Fuck u/spez
