& 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?
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.
Howdy!
In recognition of your contribution to the community, I present you with the coveted Lemmy Lemon award.
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Please let’s make the Lemmy Lemon award an unofficially official thing. After reading that I want people to use it more
Let’s make it a wheel of cheese. Gotta keep the french happy or they riot 😅
Bruh💀
Bah! Let them have cake. 🍰
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I like this idea! Take your Lemmy Lemon. 🍋
Your enthusiasm for this idea earns you a Lemmy Lemon 🍋 friendo, I like it too
Glad you are here!
Gosh I sure love it here. Everybody is so kind & nice. This is such a better feeling place. I enjoy conversing with everyone so far. Reading these comment sections just makes me feel calm too 🥰
I’ve been here 20 some days now and I still feel this way. Great community on this instance. I mod 4 communities and have yet to take a moderator action against a comment or post. It’s a nice little chill slice of internet.
Thank you! I’m glad to be here!
As a former reddit lurker, I like the more low-key engagement here. It feels more welcoming.
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
Agree the big thread here are pretty comparable, but are still missing a lot of small subreddit/thread.
I also didn’t even bother engaging on Reddit at all, but doing so on Lemmy feels way more worth it for some reason
I’ve had a genuine thank you from another user, days after I had posted a response here.
I could post on reddit that the sky was blue in response and somehow get turned into a hatemonger that oppressed a flightless subspecies of microwave ovens.
I joined towards the beginning of June and have no intention of going back to reddit. The only exception was to delete everything I had posted there.
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used power delete suite and made a copy of everything I wanted as it ran.
I must try that - thanks for the info
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I used to save stuff to my own sub reddit, not sure if it’s all long gone now. Did you manage to copy before deleting?
I’ve only been here for like a day, but I’ve noticed that too. There’s fewer conversations, but what there is is very worthwhile. I haven’t opened a post to see five people trying to get their joke in first, which could sometimes get a bit annoying haha
One thing I certainly don’t miss from Reddit is the top voted comment is always some lame pun or some tired phrase that has been repeated a thousand times before.
Absolutely 100% this! Opening the comments to find endless walls of repeated bad puns is something I’ll never miss.
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
Another thing to consider is that Lemmy is basically early access. Very rough around the edges and one of those ways is federation. Users from other instances might not see your comment, or might not see it immediately. The good news is, it will only get better and more active.
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.
As for engagement, just be the change your wish to see
I try. I want to make this work so I try to comment more and perhaps even create some posts (things I didn’t do on Reddit). But I have no illusion that anything I post will be “quality”.
I think your posts here are quality
You’re sweet in saying so <3
But I have no illusion that anything I post will be “quality”.
Saying this already shows us as a community that your comments are more valuable than any found on Reddit! Any contribution with an inch of sincerity/effort goes a mile. But don’t feel too much pressure to contribute. I’m a lurker myself and new to all this constant activity/mod stuff. Contribute as you wish and we’ll be happy to respond back!
Good news - you could be the new synopsis guy!
Remember to be commenting on stuff that don’t have comments to drive engagement! It’s important for all of us to do our part
I’m doing my part!
Thank you for your service!
Oooh, first time seeing images/gifs in posts. This looks really nice on PC. Is that just a direct imgur link or something?
It looks like it was uploaded directly to this instance. You get a nonstandard markdown link that embeds the media in the post/comment body. You can even paste image data from your clipboard and it’ll be uploaded and embedded.
Oh it’s not externally hosted? Interesting.
edit: oh shit, you’re right. Damn that’s new then?! Amazing.
Did I hear a rock and stone?
Hmmm link doesn’t work for me. Do I have to do anything on my end to view?
Edit: never mind. Saw the response post below. All good
I will. I mentioned somewhere else I was a lurker on Reddit, but try to be more active here in the hopes it will help.
I sort by new mostly and if I find something interesting I write a comment trying to startup some conversations. The more people do this, the faster the community will grow.
The problem is there are duplicates communities in different instances.
If I find duplicate communities, I just subscribe to all of them. Maybe recheck after some time and look through the activity and unsub then.
Yeah this seems to be the way to go. Sub to all communities of a topic you’re interested in. Then after you find out which ones end up the most popular, unsub from the ones without much activity.
In ways, it’s really not all that different from Reddit. There were lots of essentially “duplicate” subreddits, but the most popular ones win out and gain traction.
And we’re still in the beginning stages here. As time goes on, the larger communities will become de-facto ‘winners’ as more and more people subscribe to those.
And I’m sure smaller ones will do alright too as not everyone will like the culture/curation of the larger ones.
I was a somewhat massive lurker on reddit, I didn’t bother engaging much because I knew 60% of the time the reply would be snippy, even if my post wouldn’t be remotely combative. So over the years I just stopped bothering mostly.
My inbox has kicked off more here in the last week than probably the last 365 days on reddit. It’s really wholesome, for lack of a better term.
All it takes if you commenting, to fire off more comments just like now. It’s good shit!
I like that Lemmy users tend to be nicer even when disagreeing. “That’s an interesting take, friend. I believe the opposite, because…” type replies are nice to see.
Exactly, it’s all it takes right? I do genuinely wonder how many people on reddit were just bots, the amount of vitriol was super unbalanced compared to real people like on old forums. Does make ya think…
I mean, anger and hatred does drive engagement, and engagement is what brings in the views and ad revenue, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
I felt at least half of the posts on Reddit were vitriolic, so my guess is approximately half of the accounts were bots/shills and astroturfers
There is definitely a lower quantity of posts and many of those posts don’t get tons of comments, but the posts and the comments they do get are of a much higher quality.
Even i was a lurker on reddit. But here, I’m contributing more actively.
“Be the change you want see in the world” applies quite well here.
Also for app, I’ve been using memmy and it’s pretty good.
Yeah I feel you about the active engagement. I personally try to fill in the silence as much as I can by commenting on things I’m even slightly interested in, just to keep the engagement up. Hopefully others do the same.
Same. I actually hadn’t realised quite how quiet I had gotten on Reddit. The threads were so big it felt pointless in many cases
Agreed. I’m normally a lurker but on Lemmy I feel like I must engage to increase engagement.
The bigger communities are reaching a kind of critical mass but getting there for the niche ones, particularly for those with no overarching direction to move to Lemmy, will be slow.
I feel like over time Lemmy as a platform will manage to make it easier to link decentralized communities together (fingers crossed). Until then it’s slow and steady.
It reminds me of Reddit a decade ago when most posts in the specialized subs didn’t have much interaction either. But the interaction was deeper and more meaningful and did not consist of everybody trying to crank out witty one-liners to whatever topic.
The other thing I try to consider: What was okay maybe a couple of years ago now feels weirdly “empty” because our brains have been Pavloved into having a deluge of dopamine-inducing content washing over us all the time…
Pet peeve of mine was the top comment being a low hanging fruit joke… Every time. Quite excited for conversation to be more meaningful.
Yep, when I first joined reddit the amount of upvotes a post on frontpage is usually on the hundreds, only the most upvoted ones break to thousands.
Try to remember that a lot of engagement on reddit nowadays is bots. Even if they seem like humans. How Lemmy is now is how reddit felt back in 2008.
Is this to be Lemmy’s future? I tend to believe there’s no practical way to distinguish between real users and bots.
It’s nice at the moment because it’s new, but it seems ripe for the astroturfing. The bots are on the way.
Is this to be Lemmy’s future? I think that we don’t have to worry much about this.
The fact that lemmy is open source will ensure that sooner or later someone will develop a solution to the problem if it gets too bad.
The motivation of the lemmy developers is actually to develop a good platform. Unlike reddit where the only and sole motivation is money, that makes a huge difference.
Comments are emptier, but I feel like they’re more relevant. To comment is an actual response and discussion, not just the same joke with the expected replies on every thread.
I just checked /r/all. It’s all clickbait. All tired memes, the only news is whatever is plastered on every news site anyway. Reddit was awesome when you were the first person to hear about any news. I remember telling my parents stuff, then they’d hear about it 3 days later and be in awe because i already knew so much about it. The news sites have adapted though, reddit isn’t the first source of information anymore. Now its just a social site to waste time on, and it’s even bad at that
Hey friend let’s talk more about this.
I hadn’t heard about wefwef until your comment.
Really excellent web app thanks for mentioning it!
I also miss more interactions in communities and comments sections, but this is just the beginning of Lemmy. It will take a while for this to become pretty active, but I’m sure it will create an awesome and loyal community.
Just testing out connect for android now, first comment. Seems slick so far. Feels like RIF a bit
Mlem and Memmy are quite tolerable
I tried both but decided to go with memmy, but each are great choices.
Same. Both have their quirks but Memmy seems more polished overall.
Yeah I’m loving Memmy. The new update has been great.
Haha. Yeah. Daily updates tend tk Improve things quickly (if there is community support/communication, which it has)
It’s crazy how quickly it’s being updated
I currently switch between them but Memmy does have more features
the UI looks better too in my opinion but that’s subjective
I’m waiting for the Android version, it looks so good
+1 for Memmy. Started with melm, but Memmy seems more polished. The dev also seems to be listening to user input.
Memmy has way more features
That’s what I signed up with. Still taking a bit to get used to the Fediverse, but happy I’m here and super appreciative of Memmy.
They also seem to go easier on the battery than wefwef
i’ve tried both but i feel like memmy is way more polished and feels a lot more user friendly, and i’ve experienced less bugs
Using Memmy now, enjoying it so far! It has its slowness and bugs, but reminds me of Apollo in some ways.
the devs from memmy are really open to suggestions too (gotta join the discord/github) - it reminds me of Apollo in that regard
For me its memmy…
Yeah so far it’s Memmy for me as well. I don’t mind wefwef or Mlem but Memmy is just doing a little more for me. There are some features in the others that I wished they would implement
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Check out wefwef.app also! It’s a web-based app and normally I’m not a fan of them, but it works really well! It’s missing some features, but the devs seem to be constantly updating it and adding new ones. Highly recommended!
I also vouch for Liftoff. It is, so far, the closest to RIF I’ve been able to find for Android and has the most options for customizing how content is presented.
Tried several, liftoff is the one for me until Sync comes along. Personally the deciding factor was that gestures worked to close posts so I could scroll one handed.
I’ve already tried a couple of them and so far liftoff as been the most comfortable one
only just been able to sign into liftoff properly after Lemmy world upgraded to 18.1 and gotta say it’s brilliant!!
Been trying a few. Lemming is the one I’m using currently but I will try Liftoff! While I wait for Sync for Lemmy 🤙🤙
I’m on Liftoff and it seems okay. But is there not a way to list communities, or am I just overlooking it? I can see the feed with all communities, which I guess is r/all-like and isn’t so bad because I did browse r/all and r/popular more than individual subreddits anyway. But still, I’d like to be able to see what communities effect exist.
I also vouch for Liftoff. It is, so far, the closest to RIF I’ve been able to find for Android and has the most options for customizing how content is presented.
Connect for Lemmy on android works great so far if anyone was looking for options.
Will try this also… Using Thunder right now and it gets really slow as you scroll down.
I’m very happy this space is flourishing. Lots of organic conversation and increased engagement. My only hope is that this revolt against corporate social media will be sustained. I would love to see this turn in to an existential threat to the companies selling our data and privacy to the highest-bidding advertiser.
I am also using wefef and was an Apollo user. I have an overall positive experience with Lemmy+wefwef.
It feels buggy when scrolling and switching between panes (post,search, etc) but I can live with that since I know it’s a work in progress.
Like one of the top posts today (the meme with Patrick and his rock). “It’s ok Lemmy. You can go when you want.”
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 knew I had an issue with the amount of time I spent on Reddit.
But good lord the repeated opening of Reddit Sync to no avail over the past days really driven home just how much I just defaulted to Reddit in any dead time.
I’m loving the fediverse. I have to thank Reddit to make me discovering it!
Is Lemmy.World a bit laggy for everyone else?
I wonder is it on my end or is it because of the new traffic it’s getting?
For some reason, wefwef was very buggy for me and kept throwing errors at me.
I use Memmy and I’ll probably stick with it!
It just had an update that fixed it, something to do with lemmy.world’s recent update.
Will have to try it again then! Though I really like Memmy and I’m getting used to it.
Yea man, I thought wefwef was the one, but I dislike not having a default sort option, nor tapping the top of the screen to return from the bottom of a comment chain [for example]. I’m sure it’ll get there. IDK anything about these web apps, and if they’re limited in their functionality but it LOOKS really really fucking good for an early app.
Memmy is solid and it’s my most used so far, it’s fun to hop between all though now that the instance is a bit more settled tonight.
I’ve said this a million times it feels like already on the fed, but any app that gets ‘auto mark read’ for scrolling posts, will be my winner. Apollo spoiled me on that for brainless scrolling.
Yeah I felt the same, it looks just like Apollo which is awesome. It’s already amazing for a web app and I’m sure it’ll get better over time.
I prefer Memmy’s sorting and overall appearance, however. It’s missing comments editing though, hopefully it can get that soon. Cheers!
Trying out Memmy here as well and enjoy a bit more than Wefwef. Feels similar to Apollo. And glad that the devs are actively listening to feedback from the alpha testers. :-)
Keep at it! I suspect these first few days will be the hardest. I uninstalled BaconReader last night and put “Connect for Lemmy” in its place on my home screen. So far it’s been a pretty easy transition!
Can confirm it gets easier. It definitely helps to have an app replacement so you can follow your normal reading, commenting, and posting routines. I jumped a while back and had to resist the urge to go back out of habit, but now I don’t even miss it.
Is it bad I feel the above feels like some 12 step program testimonial?
BaconReader will never be able to be replaced. I’m bouncing between Jerboa and wefwef for now, until I find a suitable BR replacement
Same here brother. I love that Jerboa is open source and available on F-Droid, but it acts up sometimes and only supports servers >= 0.18.0, so I’ve been bouncing until some more of the instances that I’m on catch up.
What drew you to BaconReader? I was a user by circumstance, really. The only real options back on the day were BR and RIF (I think Alien Blue was a thing at that time, but we all know how that turned out) and I just happened to go with BR and never switched.
I shouldn’t say that. I did give Sync a shot for the last couple months before the apocalypse, and it was pretty snazzy once I got used to it. Excited to see how their Lemmy app turns out!It was so long ago. I remember trying a few of them, and just really liked the simplicity and functionality of BR. They never tried to be more than they were.
Liftoff dark mode feels the most like my beloved baconreader.
I’ll have to check it out.
95% of posts that contain active discussion and more than 3 comments are about Lemmy and/or Reddit implosion. I would love to see a pivot to more engagement in other subjects. I do enjoy reading about lemmy and participating in the discussion, but would be good to see the users disperse a little bit :)
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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.”
As a new user, I’m finding it weird how everything seems so fragmented. Why join a […subreddit] (what are they called here?) on one channel/server rather than another? Surely it just breaks up the user base and makes it harder to have everyone in one place.
Also, I find it weird how everything is on different servers from a user point of view - where do I make my account? I made mine on Lemmy.world, but what if I should be somewhere else?
The apps help slightly, but there’s still confusion with local/all and seeing the server everything is hosted on.
I feel like it’s a difficult sell to the more casual user and will make it much harder to have Lemmy as a true successor to Reddit.
There needs to be a way to obfuscate this information to a casual user and have an account in one place, with ‘subreddits’ in one place, so Lemmy is just Lemmy and you only learn more about the infrastructure if you want to.
