Influx of Lemmy brothers and sisters incoming. Already 3K and growing deep, we may as well rebuild together. Let’s do this! 🤝
Edit : Yes there are workarounds using Revanced. Check the comments for some awesome help on how to do this if you wish! Just know, in the future it will most likely end up being patched annoyingly and I therefore recommend looking forward to the future with us here.
As a former Apollo user, using wefwef for lemmy has made adoption so easy. 10/10, it’s basically an Apollo clone in-browser and has been working great. https://wefwef.app/
As a former Apollo user, wefwef is a god send. Absolutely love it.
I found wefwef and it was the only thing making me less sad when I deleted Apollo. Basically feels like Reddit in 2010-2011 but with a modern third party Reddit interface. Better experience and I don’t have to support /u/spez? Sign me up.
I’m really liking wefwef, much like Apollo it’s made the experience of the platform much better by smoothing out the interaction. Web apps really are coming quite a ways from what I remember them being.
I’m using wefwef too, but it doesn’t keep me logged in for some reason.
Yeah, but I do think a lot of clueless folks won’t leave. Honestly, I wonder if reddit is undergoing a massive brain-drain right now. I rather hope so, because it would mean Lemmy is getting some high-grade folks.
This is pretty much why I’m here… It feels like the folks who left are going to be good company.
Hey, don’t discount morons like myself who also lucked into bumbling my way out of reddit lol
Hi, fellow imbecile. I’m glad we made it out
Moron is my middle name!
The way I see it, the people that don’t want to leave reddit can keep whatever is left of it. The people willing to leave and find something better are the reason I originally signed up. I spent twelve years over there and think it’s time for something better.
Time for a change. The “improvements” made to reddit over the 12 years were honestly laughable and I think lemmy will be a vast improvement to reddit. We’ll look back on Reddit like we did to digg
Same here 👍
Mods are leaving first, their tools have been neutered, and they’d rather move to lenmy, kbin or anything else where they don’t have to fight the admins. Users will follow
Seconded.
I dont want everyone to leave reddit and come over to lemmy. One of the joys of lemmy is bot being overwhelmed with meh.
Rif refugee reporting in
Tried the “official” app for the first time in years, uninstalled after 10 min… RIP Rif
The official app os total junk and utterly unusable.
RIP RIF.
Looking forward to building something new here.
I’ve been trying it for concurrent to Rif and Sync. The differences are individually small, but taken as a whole the official app is just horrible. If it weren’t for Rif and Sync, I don’t think I would have become a Reddit user. I’m desperately hoping Lemmy reaches the critical mass and Sync for Lemmy becomes a thing.
Good news! Sync for Lemmy is already being worked on! Really excited to see how that turns out. I’ll follow that dev anywhere. Sync was amazing to use. Easiest purchase of my life.
Same here brother.
Switched yesterday and so far, really liking it. Might even say, it’s better than Reddit at the moment already.
No heavy echo-chamber/ toxicity (yet). Just waiting that it becomes more active with more communities.
I just switch a couple of days ago and I feel more willing to post and comment
My last day on Reddit I shared an excited post about a fun thing in a hobby sub of mine and I got such awful negative responses and people telling me I was attention seeking. It was really ugly. So that was pretty much when I decided to uninstall my Boost app and switch to Lemmy full time
I’m the same way!
What app are you using? So far I’ve tried Liftoff, but I’m looking for something closer to Relay
I’m using Jerboa and have been testing Thunder since yesterday, not bad, but still a bit limited, we need to be patient and give the developers some time, there are already like 10 apps and a couple of forks of third party Reddit apps in active development.
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The echo chambers are here, they’re just not quite as obvious. And, there are competing echo chambers so sometimes the whiplash between posts is a bit intense lol.
It’s probably because of the instances that some of the subs I’m subscribed to are in lol.
I’m using WefWef.app for Lemmy and it’s awesome.
It’s a straight-up Apollo clone as a web app.
I am floored.
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Wefwef is amazing. Only thing that I’ve noticed I’m missing so far is the endless moving back and forward by swiping to right/left.
That’s been my favorite part! Best accidental find
It’s crazy to me that this is a web app. I usually prefer native apps, but this thing? Wow.
Thanks, I am switching from Jerboa now.
I’m impressed how good is wefwef.
I’ve installed jerboa but I’m now considering switching again.
I didn’t know who Huffman, spez or the fact there was a bid to IPO until Apollo’s announcement of closure occurred. Why? Because I didn’t subscribe the Reddit’s main subreddits, I was very niche.
Once I learned about all that, I vowed if they didn’t reverse their standing and treatment of Christian, I was leaving.
Once the last week of June came and Spez triple-downed on his terrible business decision, I began using tools to destroy all of my content including topics I made that were all ranking #1 in Google, that causes plenty of PMs years after creation.
I’ve since deleted all but one account that I’ll probably hold onto just in case they decide to block my access to information I need.
I’ve deleted Apollo, Reddit’s official app and logged out on all browsers across all platforms I use. I’m done and liking WefWef as a replacement.
You should reinstall Apollo and listen to the tribute song in it. It was beautiful.
Watched it today on his YouTube channel. Pretty epic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOFChFxsJ3I
Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Lemmy are very nice :)
Wow, wefwef really does make me feel at home as an Apollo refugee. They weren’t lying!
there’s something comforting seeing other Apollo friends here. Good to have you here!
Reporting in!
And that just makes it that much more clearer how much we need Apollo for Lemmy!
Indeed. If Wefwef can reach feature parity with Apollo (and I suppose lemmy with reddit lol) it would be an awesome alternative since it is cross platform
I really liked Wefwef, it led me to finding Connect, which I like even more. Excited for Sync too, it’ll just get easier and easier to help build this community
Another Apollo refugee here. Wefwef and Memmy (haven’t settled on one yet) both have me feeling a bit at home. I hope Christian does an Apollo for Lemmy, but if not, these are great options.
Hi my brother in Apollo, welcome!
Same here. I tried Lemmy and while ago and wanted to switch, but was held back by lack of a good app like Apollo and just the lack of users. Hopefully this will be the start of a change. Either way, not going back to Reddit.
Y’all are missing the real tragedy of this situation. This api fiasco means the end of RTV, reddit terminal viewer, the world’s finest TTY compatible reddit client. The days of reading reddit on an electronic typewriter are over.
Can’t show them ads so they probably don’t care.
I was on Reddit for 13 years. I’ve been using sync for as long as I knew there was a mobile app. Lemmy seems really relaxed and I’m looking forward to it!
Same. It seems like it’s far less corporate and more along the lines of early Reddit.
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IRC was basically pre-everything. Before ICQ and MSN and WhatsApp and surely before telegram.
Probably only Usenet was older, if we’re talking about social networking software.
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Usenet was a hierarchical structure for what became the forums. You had a main tree and then separated branches for every argument, for example alt.sports then alt.sports.martialarts then alt.sports.martialarts.karate
Usenet was text only, very fast with old modems compared to web pages.
All the files (and piracy stuff) were relegated to alt.binaries
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Can’t wait for more Reddit refugees
Hi, I’m a reddit refugee. Just set up an account and am using Connect app. It took me a while to stop unlocking my phone and slecting the rif icon, muscle memory is pretty weird thing.
Very new to this as I’m sure many others are. Finding my feet, and am looking forward to creating new muscle memory for this!
Same for me except I was previously using Reddit Sync Pro.
Have you signed up for the Sync for Lemmy beta?
I was a Reddit sync user. Are you telling me there’s going to be the same app for Lemmy!? And I thought I would spend less time scrolling my phone! 🤣
Yes I have…and I have high hopes :)
Sync refugee here, RIP Sync. I can’t wait for Sync for Lemmy.
So say we all.
I’m really liking wefwef.app as a former sync user.
i just checked it out, looks great. good call out
Just figured out how to get on wefwef too! Was a weird signup process and could be streamlined to attract even more redditfugees.
I was hoping for Relay, but the dev is sticking with Reddit and switching to a subscription model.
Yeah Relay was my preferred app and I’m super bummed it’s staying with Reddit. I’m using Liftoff which has some issues but works well. I’m looking forward to the first 1.0 releases of various apps still.
Former RIFer here.
I’m gonna miss RIF. Such a good app. Would be awesome if they would do a Lemmy version.
Boost refugee reporting in! Can’t wait for the boost app for lemmy!
Never used anything other than boost. Right now on connect for lemmy. Its similar in a sense.
Infinity for reddit user here, as much as I love the app, and the work the developer has done on it, and even though the app will continue on a subscription based model, I have had it with reddit, full fediverse citizen from now on
Same sentiment here. Even if reddit made apps come back, at this point they have completely eroded my goodwill and shown that when they are publicly traded they will cave to investor pressure almost instantly.
I for one think it’s a good thing that the main Lemmy devs are so called “tankies” because that makes them that much more unlikely to sell out (not that that would break Lemmy, it still would suck). The software itself is not opinionated so while I think genocide denial is reprehensible, imo the comments about it are generally FUD.
Yeah, I still have it working with the workaround of compiling it with my own API key, but decided not to update this any more. When it stops working like that I am out, not that I actually use it that much anymore.
