& 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m here on the fediverse via Jerboa. I agree it’s definitely deterring me from using the official Reddit app!
I’d been using Baconreader for about 10 years, and I’m blown away at how easy the transition has been. Still don’t fully understand the fediverse (made my account yesterday lol), but this post was really helpful for getting started!
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.
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
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
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
Yep its jerboa for me
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.
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
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.”
Killing Bacon Reader was a deal breaker for me. Not looking back at all.
Former RIF user here. I rather not use reddit than use the official spyware app
I deleted my account once Sync stopped working. So glad Ljdawson is switching it over to lemmy
Can’t wait until sync for lemmy is a thing lol
Can’t wait until sync for lemmy is a thing lol
I’ve been using wefwef too (and I’m also an Apollo refugee). Liking it so far, even if I am very confused about how a lot of this works. I hope the Lemmy community continues to grow!
This isn’t the best example, but helped me a lot in understanding it (mostly) It works kind of like E-mail. Each instance is like an email provider. Lemmy.world, beehaw, lemmy.ml, ect are kind of like gmail, yahoo mail, and outlook. So the instance you signed up for is your “lemmy provider” as if Google is your email provider. Now when you email people, you can email to any other provider (yahoo, outlook, etc) and vice versa. They are all similar services but different providers, but they all work together so any person can email any other person. They are federated - one big services, but each provider has its own autonomy in deciding rules, features, etc. So most instances can work with other instances to share information/posts. But not all. Some have deferdeated form others and don’t share posts/information. As if yahoo said they we’re no longer accepting emails from google. So gmail user’s emails would not get sent to Yahoo mail users, but others, like outlook, would. You would say they defederated from google. Much like beehaw did from lemmy.world.
I think that’s a pretty good analogy. One of the things I’m still struggling with is how communities work across instances. If I follow casual conversations on one instance, will I see posts on that community from other instances? Or do I have to follow each individual instance of that community? As I’m trying to find new communities to follow, I often get confused if I’m already following a specific community or which instance I should choose to follow it on.
You can see posts/conversations from other instances if the instances are federated(communicate with each other), which most are/do(?). You just have so subscribe to the communities that aren’t on your instance to do so. But some instances aren’t federated. For example, Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world (and another I forget which) early on due to the open sign ups and moderations issues. I’m on lemme.world, I can go on a beehaw community, I can see the posts, and read through the conversations, but I don’t think they can see if I reply to anything( so I don’t). But this is where I start to lose my grasp on the technology too, so if anyone more knowledgeable than me wants to chime in…
